A child's first lynching
...Dressed in their Sunday best
Toothy grins
Pristine shoes
Eyes sparkling with joy
A simple family picture
The epitome of innocence
'Spick and span' as they would say
A nice family outing
Wh...
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Categories:
toothy, children, discrimination, memory, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
adieu
...
we …
sat here once …
so long ago it’s a dream -
a mirage of another life,
like a desert’s distant, fiery fog …
we were brine,
I, salt to your water -
churning surf that broke upon another -
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Categories:
toothy, analogy, friendship love, memory,
Form: Free verse
As False as Smiles
...Manners are the party fancy —
Petit goldleaf on the melting pudding,
A sticking cream now on your fingers,
Immovable for hours.
Manners like a lady,
Her morning bonnet pinned,
Perching, tilti...
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Categories:
toothy, anxiety, depression, social, society,
Form: Free verse
In the Playground of Imagination
...As a kid, I had a brilliant plan—
Become a dentist! Be The Man!
White coat, big bucks, drills that whir...
Then I saw my cousin’s clinic—Brrr!
The smell alone could curl your soul,
I n...
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Categories:
toothy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Orange Breeze
...Loud is the whistling wind
my freckled face friend
Short hair red fire traces
toothy grin with braces
Skin white and fair
temper quick to fear
likes playing sports
like a guy kinda sorts
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Categories:
toothy, life, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Megolodon
...Megolodon was a very toothy fellow
who was probably not too mellow
he would search for all kinds of prey
and treat his find like a buffet
he probably didn’t have many enemies
and I’m so ...
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Categories:
toothy, animal,
Form: Ekphrasis
September Dreaming
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In the backwoods of my soul
where dreams are lost
and moments grow cold
among the bitter
of a winter’s storm
as embers of frosty feelings
ooze through the melancholic
drifting, nomadi...
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Categories:
toothy, autumn, dream, imagery, memory,
Form: Free verse
Weather Girl
...Roof shingles
are tossed like confetti in a Banshee wind.
She says it's going to be a bad weather day,
the green screen behind her wobbles
as a gust of torrential hailstones
rocks the studio,
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Categories:
toothy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
soucouyant
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you …
found your way in -
a keyhole that I had left unguarded
squeezing through
with fiery wings folded like leaves
I should’ve seen it coming
but your “goodbye” had been such
a jagged edg...
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Categories:
toothy, analogy, dark, fantasy, horror,
Form: Free verse
Marmalade Madmen
...Marmalade madmen
advertising butter and bread,
tasty orange sweet,
with a smile complete.
Spreading the marmalade,
thick greeting of lips,
lopsided and listing,
opening orbs.
Jingjing Li,...
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Categories:
toothy, food, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Today’s My Birthday-Oct 7
...What shall I tell you about…books piled high, watery eyes, a day burned up, my birthday coming up. Shall I tell you, I have one more year before I’m officially a senior citizen and how the gray and w...
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Categories:
toothy, age, birthday, books, memory,
Form: Prose
Trick-or-Treat
...In the hush of twilight's purple bloom,
I wandered, where the old oaks loom,
On All Hallows' Eve, in masquerade,
With a bag in hand, through the mist I waded.
The streets were lined with jac...
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Categories:
toothy, halloween, horror, scary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Girl on the Monkey Bars
...The girl on the monkey bars
Hanging upside down
The girl with the auburn plaits
Riding through the town
The girl with the toothy grin
Hopping to one knee
The girl in this rhyming tale
Is the ...
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Categories:
toothy, fun, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Lantern of the Shadowed Glade :POTD:
...Lantern of the Shadowed Glade
In shadowed glades where spirits dwell,
Beneath the boughs of an ancient spell.
A pumpkin awaits, its fate foretold,
By tomes of old and tales untold.
Carved w...
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Categories:
toothy, dark, fantasy, halloween, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
A Nibble
...Mankind for lest they stand alone by the lake,
hand bereft of anything - but a stick,
thin line between fishing;
and standing idle - looking ignorant.
Hook line and sinker, reel it in.
Grin...
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Categories:
toothy, dark,
Form: Free verse
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