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Death by Light

...A fallow season, a time of trivial hungers.
Scissoring illuminations sheared his eyes.
Petulant lips pursed.
He laid himself down, yet again
covered himself over with a bone deep hurt.

Light c...
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Categories: unboxed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Torpor

...I have been accepting 
that I lost my courage to be vulnerable,
and I hovered over words that would not flow,
For my emotional tsunami hides in the insufferable,
I was just afraid to let this ach...
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Categories: unboxed, absence,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberUnboxed Memories

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long in the attic,
now unboxed,
treasure trove of
old Polaroid photographs;
priceless!
pulled from
the gaping mouth of oblivion.
one family album,
in particular,
sucks me into the vort...
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Categories: unboxed, appreciation, imagery, memory, youth,
Form: Free verse

A Thinning Light

...The light is thinning.
A ragged man struggles
to carry an unboxed
large plasma screen.

He is walking it home,
he has no home
still, he is walking it,
but now it's raining
the TV becomes
a ...
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Categories: unboxed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Prove my worth

...These eyes are full
If I blink this river will flood,
Overwhelming feeling
My fears are misunderstood.
An unboxed memory- open
Thoughts I cannot take,
Don’t want to talk about it
Fear- my mind...
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Categories: unboxed, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberHeart Gentle Eye Mindful

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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core conve...
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Categories: unboxed, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNot On My Watch

...Suzette was Auntie Dolly’s favorite porcelain wonder.
None of us liked her, yet, we could not give her away
Maybe because we loved Auntie Dolly so much.
And we knew she would want one of us to kee...
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Categories: unboxed, scary,
Form: Narrative

What's Good In 'Goodbye'

...  A gentle kiss, sent love to her forehead,
unmatched to the unboxed dozen of roses. 

Silence, comforted by re-assuring smiles,
they danced together, to their last hoorah. 

A love...
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Categories: unboxed, farewell, fate, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDream Macabre - a Repost

...My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing them to poor...
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Categories: unboxed, death, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse

Christmas Gifts Unboxed

...A call from a nephew here
A text from children, not near
It takes so little, these days
Be grateful always, He says

Another day on planet earth
Forget the shape of my girth
A place to work ca...
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Categories: unboxed, 12th grade, africa, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDream Macabre

...My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing them to poorer souls for...
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Categories: unboxed, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOvation For Ovulation

...Sense altering fertility:
                   a stoic female falters

Seven consecutive avid hours in each four weeks 
I mull over mitigating my chosen ongoing celibacy 
Primitive drive permeates...
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Categories: unboxed, bereavement, desire, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberFactory Recall

...Factory Recall

I looked beyond The Open Door 
into a mystical Soul Factory
There amidst  the unboxed souls
was Invisible Jim and The Ghost.
The ghost’s skin was reflective like a mirror 
allo...
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Categories: unboxed, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeg To Differ, Strut Your Stuff

...It's easy to be in kind
    cruelling self to denial.
Harder to step up, unboxed.
But why must you beg, aplogise
   for stuffing your ego with struts,
   standing up, off your knees;
   self su...
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Categories: unboxed, self,
Form: Free verse

To Sexual and Sensual Couples

...TO SEXUAL AND SENSUAL COUPLES

Kiss me.
Tinge me.
Make me mourn.
Take me to heights unknown.

Empower me with dynamism.
Make my woman glow from making love.
Hold me close in yours ar...
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Categories: unboxed, appreciation, baby, desire, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

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