I Am From
...I am from fast-food,
From paper plates and dinners in front of the t.v.
I am from the stale stubborn silence,
Eating away at smiles
I am from the Lily flowers, resting in the corner
The Willow t...
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Categories:
unexploded, 10th grade, family, time,
Form: Free verse
I Know What I Am
...First
takeaway all that you are not
and cannot be proved
in the stark light of
the five senses.
The more you are convinced of
the more you will be self-deceived,
keep nothing that speaks
fr...
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Categories:
unexploded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Awful Harvest 2
...The road that has been improved and widened would’ve yielded many unexploded munitions. I’m curious how many were found and wonder how many thousands still hide unfound. Sections of the trees/grass b...
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Categories:
unexploded, adventure, military, nature,
Form: Verse
An Awful Harvest
...An Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The road had been improved ...
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Categories:
unexploded, adventure, military, nature,
Form: Verse
Lost Connections
...I remember the red heat rising from my neck,
The embarrassment of being accosted by the police,
Because I was never supposed to see you again,
The irrational fear that the cops
Would call my wife...
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Categories:
unexploded, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Missed You
...The mini skirt walked away
The night remained unopened for 50 years
An unexploded grenade
Buried beneath the golden wheat fields of Normandy.
2/28/21
Lost Connections...
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Categories:
unexploded, heartbreak, lost, missing,
Form: Free verse
Bombs Away
...BOMBS AWAY
"Holy crap, that's one fair turd offloaded Hermann, you must be relieved"
Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
"Exeter unearths an unexploded 1.00...
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Categories:
unexploded, humor, metaphor, world war
Form: Monoku
Hellhounds Doggie Chow Part 1
...If you drink that SPECIAL brand of Kool-aid,And now you flounder belly up make sure someone else is there with you,(and not just for good luck,)who has the required skills to render first aid. Cause ...
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Categories:
unexploded, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Ponds of Blood Road
...Along the blood road
there's thousands of ponds
carved out by American bombs.
An attempt to blast communism
into starry oblivion-
It'll take a hundred years to remove
unexploded ordinances(uox...
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Categories:
unexploded, war, water,
Form: Free verse
100 Seconds To Midnight
...An endangered species, living on a ledge,
100 seconds to Midnight, then over the edge,
Nearest to Doomsday, humans have ever been,
Vaporised! inside mushrooms of boiling hot steam.
Casually go ...
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Categories:
unexploded, allegory, conflict, earth day,
Form: Quatrain
Random Thought Pattern
...i'm not
here for
the riot
but to
write
it if
i can
throwing
back a can
of unexploded
tear gas because
i'm not wearing a
gas
mask
no i
know
i'm sure
my photo
is now being
show...
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Categories:
unexploded, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Girly Stories
...Girly Stories
There may be unexploded shells
or rats that squirm among the sordid waste.
But only girly stories each one tells
as they walk home together in their fearful haste.
Keep the child...
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Categories:
unexploded, age, children, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Cellulite and Silk
...Every work of art has a bit of cellulite.
The perspective is off:
a comma misplaced
a disjointed ending to a play
a cracked pirouette
an unexploded ordinance
Every masterpiece has imperfection...
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Categories:
unexploded, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Class of 85
...Excited bustle
What we were missing returns
Unexploded clan
Heart’s origins, simple times
Uncomplicated soul bonds
Cresting apogee
Highest point of our proud arcs
Yet farthest away
From yor...
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Categories:
unexploded, anniversary, class, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Tanka
Make Love Not War
...Make Love Not War
I want to plant sugar-mines,
that blow on footfall’s touch,
they slap you on the calfs and
thighs and splash chocolate
on your crotch
then quickly I’ll plant cleavage
b...
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Categories:
unexploded, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
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