pounded again
...
precious …
days consumed …
before they even take a breath
or wink to waking …
oh the wealth of life so squandered for
white-hot agony behind the eye -
hours stretched to inestimable eternit...
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Categories:
unavoidably, analogy, health, pain,
Form: Free verse
HUMANITY
...HUMANITY
Action and reaction, equal and opposite
We hear, but just what do we make of it
Do we let loose and curse or merely spit
When arrows rain, how shall we respond
It does take pressure t...
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Categories:
unavoidably, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Rise
...A dark secret I feel tempted to unfold
and the legacy of truth I'm bound to uphold
Ladies and gentlemen, let us view through this wicked universal kaleidoscope
and uncover the secrets of leadershi...
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Categories:
unavoidably, africa, change, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Musings
...*** MUSINGS ***
I have grown old,
thankfully,
dragging along all my ailments,
unavoidably, it seems, but endured ~ and
graced by the frequent
florets of wisdom
adorning the rounds o...
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Categories:
unavoidably, environment, inspirational, life, senses,
Form: Free verse
Packaging
...‘Taties and carrots and onions
All have their own natural skin
So why do most of the suppliers
Use plastic bags to pack them in,
Either the fragile brittle type
That bursts all over the floo...
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Categories:
unavoidably, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Lately Thinking I
...Lately i've been thinking
Am i blue or am i pink
Am i living out this life in real time
Or merely following the highlights
Can i or could have indeed done
anything different
Made bett...
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Categories:
unavoidably, slam,
Form: Free verse
I Can Sense Your Impatience
...I can sense your impatience...
While yours truly (me)
doth strives to maintain
comfortably seated
closed eye meditative pose
mine skinny sea thru legs
(mere fo' shaw
by George spindleshanks)...
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Categories:
unavoidably, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Growing Up Tears
...I thought when I was little adults did not cry.
“They are strong and brave and unafraid.”
Such I believed ’til my ninth birthday was nigh.
I awoke one morning with a pain in my chest.
“Best tak...
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Categories:
unavoidably, 10th grade, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
A World Without Pity Part Ii
...I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;
After I had lost a home, where I'd lived my life long,
So they could build a highway, for the bus...
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Categories:
unavoidably, adventure, earth, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Adieu My Dear Muchacha Shana Punim
...A heavy heart this papa doth air
signals necessary pang...
this father must bear
though...with muted pomp
and circumstances I cheer
stunning transformation unbelievable,
sans thee as youngest...
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Categories:
unavoidably, angel, celebration, farewell, father
Form: Rhyme
The Coffer
...THE COFFER
through the threshold
carried by the wind
a summer skirt below my knees
a request to enter with a sales brochure
an invitation to pitch perfume and jewelry
...
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Categories:
unavoidably, appreciation, cool, crazy, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Metaphorically Tethered To Invisible Umbilical Cord
...Peter Pan Syndrome the most
accurate way to summarize
psychological mindset of yours truly,
particularly as a boy with brown eyes,
who did NOT holistically acclimatize
himself with peers, whic...
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Categories:
unavoidably, 1st grade, 7th grade,
Form: Bio
Shari Todd Harris Dunning Part1
...No acknowledgement could be
commensurate nar e'er
equivalent to countless years (scores of orbitz
of unexplored wonder) – left...
(with millstones around neck)
to atrophy on severe truncat...
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Categories:
unavoidably, forgiveness, heartbreak, hope, marriage,
Form: Bio
While Shuttered Up Inside
...While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...
Analogous to my boyhood
cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
of mine years found me
...
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Categories:
unavoidably, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Carpe Diem
Unavoidably Charming
...Once again, here comes my crush
just his mere sight on me without a doubt I blush
a popular neighbourhood-magnet from his looks so lush
a globe-tour on foot with him is better than riding a Porsch...
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Categories:
unavoidably, boy, boyfriend, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme
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