Confronting Shadows
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I met my shadow, it was right behind me.
It stalked me, in sharp-edged silhouette
It bore my shape, but evoked a darker hue,
Mirroring truths I’d buried and denied.
In rooms beneath our consc...
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Categories:
twin(a), fear, feelings, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Fractured Family
...Born of the same blood, yet worlds apart,
Lines drawn in whispers, etched in the heart.
Twin shadows dancing, a discordant rhyme,
Two brothers bound by duty, not love, not time.
Family, a fa...
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Categories:
twin(a), brother,
Form: Rhyme
Jews vs Palestinians - it must end
...Why this never ending hate
Where impressionable young men swallow jaundiced bait,
To kill and maim - all in the name of their one prophet,
Unleashing burning mayhem with rocket after rocket.
Ha...
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Categories:
twin(a), death, depression, forgiveness, racism,
Form: Quatrain
The Only Star For Me
...There is but one star,
of which
all creation is an
evolving flicker
A radiance
without and within –
a gleam of our present
humanity~ while a beam
from where we have all
been,
an em...
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Categories:
twin(a), humanity, light, perspective, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Chimera
...I am not a she-monster
Though trolls have called me worse.
I do not breathe fire
though have been told I'll burn in hell
by media, both social and in print.
They thought they knew me
#lyingchea...
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Categories:
twin(a), betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Never Had a Name Before
...Identical twins. Never having a name.
Referred to as the Tone Twins. Hey, Twins! Twinsie.
Assumed to be one person for the first eighteen years.
Until one could get away, leaving fast, chased by t...
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Categories:
twin(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Birthday Boy
...Birthday Boy
My dear Twin B
You were 6~1
Slow to show up" to see"
But turned out to be perfectly done
You shared a womb with Twin A
cementing your very special day
both known to occasional...
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Categories:
twin(a), birthday,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Birthday Boy
...My dear Twin A
You were " 6~2 "once (haha)
On your Birth~ day
Arrival after 9 months
You shared a womb with Twin B
Who also turned out to be a he
known to occasionally shoot pee
Two great gu...
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Categories:
twin(a), birthday,
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Adjective Twin: a Poem of Pain
...The Adjective Twin: A Poem of Pain
I am "presumptuous" -- and with my brother, "arrogant"
we are the adjective twin of "gentle" blame
of "gentle" wounding, of "gentle" continued "colonization"...
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Categories:
twin(a), change, culture, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Different and the Same
...DIFFERENT AND THE SAME
There was a petit young twin,
Who believed she could not win.
People would like to compare;
Most viewed her as part of a pair.
She had a couple of freckles on her face;
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Categories:
twin(a), conflict, kids, self,
Form: Rhyme
My Wonderful Sister
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I hate the fact I was so tied up in marriage and neglected youin the past
I love the fact that you are a one and only sister
I hate the fact that you had no other sister
But I love the fact that ...
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Categories:
twin(a), family, god, sister, family,
Form: Free verse
My Family Twins- a Tragedy
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A Greek philosopher hopefully said beware
Beware the couple being the of the same embryo
Who jealously promotes themselves
One outwardly and openly one inwardly and secretly.
Beware of Glorific...
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Categories:
twin(a), family, father, anger, father,
Form: I do not know?
Twilight Child
...~*~
Perched on the porch steps, as the crimson sun goes down
I am sipping on my cold iced tea, and drinking up the joy
I am smiling as I’m watching him, as the weary day retreats…
While the...
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Categories:
twin(a), childhood, happinesspower,
Form: Narrative
Trace
...I walk across the rugged and yet smooth jaw line, that becomes a trail in the
desert,
Smooth, yet under my feet your hair gently touches me, and I giggle at the mere
touch,
Dare I to compar...
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Categories:
twin(a), art, happiness, life, love,
Form: I do not know?