Humans Fed to the Minotaur
...There’s something in our entrails knows this dread.
You hear it scratching – that’s alarm enough.
That snorting half-suppressed, that flagstone scuffed,
a passing shadow of a massive head,
and we...
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Categories:
unresponsive, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Retail Therapy
...I have never heard my mother express her love for my father.
Perhaps after having seven children, she lacked the energy to articulate those sentiments.
Many women convey their emotions through ...
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Categories:
unresponsive, abuse, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
FIDELITY BRAVERY INTEGRITY UNRESPONSIVE
...I GAVE AN OATH WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE TIMES WERE VERY HARD BACK THEN I WAS SO YOUNG WITH SMALL CHILDREN RETURNING FROM GERMANY MILITARY WIFE WHEN TH...
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Categories:
unresponsive, allah,
Form: Naat
MY POEM THE WRATH AWARD WINNER DECEMBER 23RD 2003
...IT WAS DECEMBER 23RD 2003 LIVING IN FORT MYERS FLORIDA MY POEM WAS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS EDITORS CHOICE AWARD BECAUSE IT DISPLAYS A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND ORIGINAL CREATIVITY WHATS AMAZING IS THIS WAS ...
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Categories:
unresponsive, allah,
Form: Naat
daoism
...and our next reason is lesson for lesson of reason removes me and begins a new seasons discipline of natures unresponsive unawareness of my reason for her hurtless path, noble children are needing to...
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Categories:
unresponsive, innocence,
Form: Lyric
Maze of Emotions
...God wished this infant to see the world.
Sent to an erroneous stage where life would be a curl
The little one loved her life, but not for too long
In the era of adolescence; Trust started to tear ...
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Categories:
unresponsive, 10th grade, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse
I don't know what boundaries are anymore 320 poems later, did I step in alone or were you there too,
...
I have a slip of memory,
when you casually took the initiative and passed my water bottle to a friend of mine whom I couldn't reach.
I shared a laugh for the first time with you.
*For the ...
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Categories:
unresponsive, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unresponsive
...Love has its bronze.
I responded with: "What do you mean? Lukas, talk with me!"
He turned around and said: "Time is getting near, but, it's nothing worth to give your all."
His tears suddenly fl...
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Categories:
unresponsive, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection of Rain
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October Rain
Is it
simply a case of precipitation,
moist warm air condensation or
are they God’s tears showering us with love,
as rain washes away our sorrows,
in the hope of bright...
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Categories:
unresponsive, analogy, metaphor, rain,
Form: Free verse
Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 5 of 6'
...V. "The Great Collective Awakening"
Aren't we the true definitive problem,
not just astray-
malignant corporations…
Or unresponsive governments ?
We are fault...
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Categories:
unresponsive, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Compassion Fatigue
...Compassion Fatigue
Resentment looks a lot like Narcan in a sharp
and feels like it’s forcing out my will.
I grab them both; Naloxone and the tarp,
the outcome undetermined by my skill.
Same gu...
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Categories:
unresponsive, addiction, faith,
Form: Sonnet
The Truth Of This Magnitude
...The Truth Of This Magnitude”
Obstinate defiance from an indignant child
Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild
Intricate compositions of meticulous art
A syndicate of derision that ...
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Categories:
unresponsive, creation, humanity, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Paternel
...Father’s toes are steel-capped,
Rough, worn-out leather, a layer
Of thick polish that cracks
With each bend, each step.
His feet carry a child’s weight,
A bundle of laughter and bouncing curl...
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Categories:
unresponsive, family, father, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
What a Woman Wants
...“All a man really wants, is a girl who looks good in a bikini.”—Jack Freestone
All a “man” really wants is a “girl”
who looks good in a bikini?
All a woman wants is someone
who really doesn’t c...
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Categories:
unresponsive, anxiety, beach, beauty, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Affairs
...Next day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The...
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Categories:
unresponsive, beach, christmas, emotions, family,
Form: Alliteration
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