Tightest Poems

Was it all just a dream

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Wakey wakey pinch me shake me don’t forsake me..was it just a trip..a mistake a half baked fake dream during a kip or after 46 days booked can’t be overlooked everyone letting rip..totally cooked...
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Categories: tightest, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry

All apologies

...I lied, never told you the truth—
I never loved you,
my beloved Ruth. 

Forgive me, if it's possible,
for the things I did impossible. 

Cold blood, so bold,
seeping through my veins. 
If I ...
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Categories: tightest, 12th grade, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme


NOTICE

...They don't want you
To elevate without them
Even when they're not supportive.
They know your history,
Victory and glory; so they want to be part of it
They always want to be part of your glowing...
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Categories: tightest, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberError 404: Freedom Not Found

...Beneath the banner "FREE TO CHOOSE,"  
algorithms hum what thoughts to lose—  
a labyrinth of tailored streets  
where every turn pretends it’s mete.  

The app says "yes" but limits "no"...
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Categories: tightest, freedom, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Sardanapalian Brand Rondel

...Just languishing in la la land
holding on with the tightest grip;
That mundane day is such a trip,
ignoring a good time is banned;

A severe lifestyle becomes fanned
with the start of a grande ...
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Categories: tightest, emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Other


Home On The Range

...Letting up
provides 
the tightest 
grip  

Creating
space for
credence
to stick

Room
to wander
room
to grow

Space
when sacred
truth
— to know

(Deamsleep: January, 2024)

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Categories: tightest, freedom, truth,
Form: Rhyme

You Didn't Leave Religion, Religion Left You

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People move on, 
People quit jobs 
And pay a pretty penny for advice 
that couldn't be further from fact 
Are you seeing my future in that crystal ball
Or the reflection of my credit card?

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Categories: tightest, desire, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHUG a VETERAN

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I think we should hug a veteran every day…not just on Veteran’s Day.
and I think it’s a hug we should make last…
because a veteran doesn’t stop being a veteran…once Veteran’s Day has passed.

B...
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Categories: tightest, veterans day,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFreddie Made Queen Queen

...Freddie made Queen famous
put them on the charts
made trans and crossdressing feel okay
wore the tightest smallest striped shorts we had ever seen
enlightened us
made Queen
Queen...
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Categories: tightest, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMelancholy Me

...Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and gone from everyday
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must now accept; a melancholy me

It follows and it looms, a...
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Categories: tightest, addiction, death, dedication, drug,
Form: Rhyme

New Deal

...Standing on the edge of forever
walking the tightest rope
Looking down into tomorrow’s abyss
devoid of any hope

The bottom rushing toward me
if one mistake is made
A footpath to a broken drea...
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Categories: tightest, time,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIt's Curtains For Me

...Six months from now and it's curtains for me
I'll crash through the barrier of 88
I'll officially be old and crotchety and senile
Pablum after my morning pee

Oh for the days had no trou...
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Categories: tightest, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Satanology 9 Satan and Things

...Blood Satan likes but on this no blame:
Lord God and Christ do too: Preferred flame
Then, wickedly, goes for Goring Horns, 
His own copy of Christ’s Crowning Thorns: 
The Horns not for self-caric...
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Categories: tightest, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Rhyme

Waiters For Painful End

...To The Demons you wish to be kind 
It mustn’t cross your kind mind to bind:
They will be watching you, not at all blind,
As they remain Wrist Watches you wind...

Try to Good Reasons and “Funny”...
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Categories: tightest, death, evil, religion, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Holocaustum Iii a Horror

...HOLY IS THE NEW FLESH

burning the rights of an ancient Sacrifice 
by ancestors holy and profane 
the offerings of an Intellectual ape 
hairless and Afraid 
of the indiscriminate night 

unkn...
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Categories: tightest, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse

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