Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend as We Rebrand Spirituality
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This time,
Janice is wearing a priest collar
and I’m the altar.
She hisses when I open my Notes app
during communion,
calls me a heretic
for spellchecking my trauma.
I tell her my whole pe...
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Categories:
unfollowed, extended metaphor, identity, myth,
Form: Free verse
Over the Town by Marc Chagall
...Peril looms yet the artist shows a relaxed state over the city.
Looked back from whence they came, escaping, unfollowed, over the city.
Solitude no more, she’s his prize to carry off over the c...
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Categories:
unfollowed, flying,
Form: Monoku
Im Like an Instant Pot
...I’M LIKE AN INSTANT POT
I’m like an Instant Pot.
We’re both big and bold.
Heavier than we should be
Fussier than we need be
Neither of us should ever
Sit on the kitchen counter
When not ...
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Categories:
unfollowed, fun,
Form: Free verse
No Title
...ve lived many years on this tortured world
Read many books on history and scriptures too
all through milennia wars are venerated
despite attrocitie being commited.
Nothing changes ,nothing achiev...
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Categories:
unfollowed, anger, care, children, christian,
Form: Free verse
Father Thomas Byles, Martyr of the Titanic
...You may have heard the 3rd class would dance
and many among them did not stand a chance
to be rescued out of the tragic Titanic disaster
but have you heard more of their heroi...
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Categories:
unfollowed, hero, memorial, prayer, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Leave Me Alone
...Leave Me Alone
And with every
twitch I can
conjure your
posture in the
corner.
The space
between your
height and
the floor
I lie on.
Twisting into
the carpet.
Rain hurts but bl...
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Categories:
unfollowed, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Unbroken
...There are many broken roads set forth upon our path
Shattered from dreams unfollowed, or maybe a former lover’s wrath
We’re birthed from sleepless nights and pain that takes its toll
From a dark...
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Categories:
unfollowed, life,
Form: Couplet
Fortune Unnamed
...She wasn’t thinking about her time and tomorrow
She broke out without a rendering word
Nothing sat well or sits well within her
In fact, she would rather pillow the past then paint a new picture
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Categories:
unfollowed, art,
Form: Ballad
I Was Finding My Goodness At Twenty
...I was shy at twenty, afraid to look in mirrors,
Scared of what I saw.
I remember the first time I looked in one and saw that I was pretty.
I gasped, and it frightened me.
I felt proud and ashame...
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Categories:
unfollowed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Allow
...Discrimination dictate who you are
Obstacles become a distraction
Enemies become your inner circle
Victory be a failure
Dreams to become a door mat
Skills to become a wrapped gift
Goals to be...
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Categories:
unfollowed, character, confidence, courage, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Heartfire
...Winter warms me.
It’s not the fire
or the quiet cat on lap.
It’s certainly not,
the harried, hurried holidays.
The shroud of
same-making snow
(the compost pile is the car...
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Categories:
unfollowed, philosophy, winter,
Form: Free verse
Things Explained
...Broken heart cracked , as i took my last breath , no one beside me alone again .
i sank knives surrounded me? spun out , no way out , of the desired heartt that followed faith in times of the bad...
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Categories:
unfollowed, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Light Verse
Run To Day
...Broken heart cracked , as i took my last breath , no one beside me alone again .
i sank knives surrounded me? spun out , no way out , of the desired heartt that followed faith in times of the bad...
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Categories:
unfollowed, adventure, angel, beauty, confidence,
Form: Acrostic
Unfollowed Advice
...Has the fire in your dreams burned dim
And light that they cast, fluttered out?
Are you living your life by whim,
Irresolute, dying from doubt?
Then recover yourself once more
In the face of a...
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Categories:
unfollowed, happiness
Form: Verse
God Is Here
...We pass by people every day
Just brush shoulders what do we say?
Excuse me, pardon me, in fact that's good
But how many of you out there
are feeling misunderstood?
You're hurting, you're sinki...
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Categories:
unfollowed, uplifting, people, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
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