August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories:
unequivocally, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Realignment
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Tattered by bad decisions, misdirected, unheard
questions that remain answered.
In a dilemma unequivocally side tracked by distorted
thoughts that occupy one's mind in such a matter.
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Categories:
unequivocally, addiction, adventure, appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
P Q R S T U
...Plain Jane Mrs. Poindexter Perry
Questioned quipster with a quarrelsome query
riling him up, down, on top and around
sappy sarcasm certainly not very sound
tearjerking interrogation turning treac...
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Categories:
unequivocally, word play,
Form: ABC
Always Forgive Your Enemies
...To arms! Many arms were waving, wildly flailing in the air
Incensed as if there'd been bowling pins missed for a spare
Screaming and ranting about things that didn't seem fair
Oh puhlease! As if i...
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Categories:
unequivocally, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Two Plus Two Equals Five
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This tactic, 2+2=5, is a direct reference to George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", where the party in the novel tries to force Winston to accept that 2 + 2 = 5.
Meanwhile let ...
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Categories:
unequivocally, political,
Form: Political Verse
STRONGER THAN YOU THINK
...Oh, my, unexpected foe, “when you read my poems
you wrongly judged me, and in a demeaning tone
shouted, “Do you ever write poems that are not sad?”
Dear disguised friend, you had me defending w...
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Categories:
unequivocally, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
AN ACOUSTIC POLITICAL GUMBO
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AN ACOUSTIC POLITICAL GUMBO
(Apropos Of Today’s Political Soup)
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Categories:
unequivocally, allegory, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic
ABIHAIL SONG MY MAN
...ABIHAIL'S SONG (MY MAN)
I stand under on terrain
Facing East,
my heartbeats
She cries out my man (I am)
It's my soul and mind listens for The Voice of the Winds
She cries out my man
So doe...
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Categories:
unequivocally, analogy, blessing, deep, i
Form: Lyric
Resurrection Time
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When time springs forward, and light prolongs the day
When insects like bees, mosquitoes, and wasps, gallop
into Spring, armed with weapons to annoy and sting
When birds fly North, and bears a...
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Categories:
unequivocally, easter,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Mother's Love
...Blessed is what people call her even her children
Is the way her loved was spread around to those less loved by others
Lifting up each person God Almighty created for His purpose in prayer ????
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Categories:
unequivocally, angel, appreciation, baptism, butterfly,
Form: Name
Swords Ovillejo
...Such obstreperous obliqueness
filling a guess.
Blissful in my obliviscence,
warm in silence.
Opulent eyes obfuscate words,
I feel swords.
All those obsequious rewards,
they mean absolute...
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Categories:
unequivocally, emotions, feelings, sensual, silence,
Form: Other
Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world
...Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.
I vote for more lenient, pro...
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Categories:
unequivocally, america, atheist, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
Today, I voted, I Did Not Vote For A Person
...The title of this poem is from an unknown wise man
Who said: ‘Today I voted, I did not vote for a person’
I love his honest and serious words. I love his wisdom
And I’m unequivocally proud to quot...
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Categories:
unequivocally, america, betrayal, corruption, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories:
unequivocally, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Quantitative process of elimination
...Anecdote:
For a nuptial effort, I was editing a photograph, my former husband, and his two classmates, as we were proposing for one, not all of them!
Posters are problematic these days, with every ...
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Categories:
unequivocally, anti bullying, baptism,
Form: Free verse
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