Pillow Princess
...I lay on pillow throne of lies.
Tolerated all the flings and flies....
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Categories:
tolerated, sexy,
Form: Crystalline
Restaurant Poetry Soup
...P olish up your best spoons everyone!
O ne taste and you'll ask for seconds
E xceptional quality in the finest dishes
T ry at least one item from the menu
R udeness is not tolerated
Y our empty ...
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Categories:
tolerated, appreciation, food, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
No More Mister Gneiss Guy
...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories:
tolerated, relationship,
Form: Verse
Sued for Outstanding Balance
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We used to call it Pit City.
Section eight housing.
My mom called ahead—
I was sixteen and still scared
to ask for what I needed.
I was on work-study
at a clean family practice
just around...
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Categories:
tolerated, age, perspective,
Form: Free verse
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
tolerated, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Some People Feel Owed A Favour
...
Used to be a team player
Took a protective stance
Learned they were advantage takers
as only I advanced
There I was lending my ear
left talking to myself
yet again I’m seeing clear
I h...
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Categories:
tolerated, creation, dark, friendship, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Running, hiding
...Running, hiding.
Still denying why are you trying.
Another day that you say, you will get by anyway.
The weight is heavy, I was clinging.
Pain is low but I strive to fly high.
High above th...
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Categories:
tolerated, allusion, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The world doesn't want me
...The world doesn’t want me—
I feel it in the spaces between words,
in the rooms that fall silent when I enter,
in the way their eyes cut through me, sharp and indifferent.
I exist like an echo no ...
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Categories:
tolerated, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Refections of the Past, Visions of the Future
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Day stacks upon day, forming opaque windows behind me.
These can be blown away at times, a clarity of vision in momentary glimpses.
Here, a face most beloved, turning my bowels to water tha...
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Categories:
tolerated, emotions, family, identity, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dont mess with Arkansas
...Small Arkansas town had tolerated enough
Deceased bully is now not so tough
Lots of guns blasted the square that day
They did not give the brute time to pray
Gunshot came from every direction a...
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Categories:
tolerated, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Murders in Mumford Part 1
...A love twisted in a high school romance,
Both fixated on puppy dog eyes,
Skipping classes followed by lies,
Predictions to never be seperated,
Only as much as parents tolerated,
They would run i...
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Categories:
tolerated, murder, mystery,
Form: Ballad
CHILD ABUSE IS AN EPIDEMIC
...Children today, are the future of tomorrow
Why destroy a life before it starts
A world problem that's overlooked
I can't understand why we mistreat our kids
Society condones this criminal offen...
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Categories:
tolerated, anger, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
A phoenix that is all-knowing
...A phoenix that is all-knowing
By Michelle Morris
10/12/2024
You play your wicked games
And you think you have the upper hand
But don't get complacent in your arrogance
Because you'll neve...
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Categories:
tolerated, angel, encouraging, heaven, life,
Form: Rhyme
Intifada
...(“Glimpsing Hokusai”, 2017, original encaustic)
Intifada aka “Kill the Jews!”
While we were sleeping content in our lives
Something dark and ugly was growing inside
Spreading across t...
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Categories:
tolerated, fear, hate, youth,
Form: Narrative
Animating Innate Vibrance
...What might be your perfect way
to awake with joy and gratitude each morning
within this new day
old way
of opportunity and mourning?
This morning's epic re-awakening
into Beloved Paradise
op...
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Categories:
tolerated, health, integrity, light, moon,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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