Expressing Invisible Scars
...My mother burned us all…smoke
rose from the ashes that clinged
to our beds, to the tables and chairs.
No one knew of screams that
echoed through the night, of the
sleepless nights from lying i...
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Categories:
unsmoked, feelings,
Form: Free verse
300,000 Unsmoked Ciggies
...three hundred thousand unsmoked fags
since i took the plunge and stopped
i did it cold turkey mates, suffered as
my nicci levels plunged and dropped.
no nicci patches,
no nicci chewing gum,
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Categories:
unsmoked, celebration, dedication, success,
Form: Rhyme
Touching Youth
...what planet could this be for boys of ten
and then one hundred
movement felt,
looking at the hardened grain
of hands caressed
with fingers pressed against themselves
absorbing stillness’...
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Categories:
unsmoked, 9th grade, age, education,
Form: Free verse
Rain
...I woke in the rain
On a drizzle-day
And found,
I could care again.
I believed that we could find a way
Back out of the dragon’s den.
“O, it’s hard!” I thought
As the tears ran down
In the e...
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Categories:
unsmoked, angst, love, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Throw Them Away
...Throw Them Away
By David J Walker
How often I saw him
Sitting,
Smoking
Drinking coffee
Early in the morning
Thinking
Worrying
Perhaps praying?
I cannot say
He would extract an
un...
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Categories:
unsmoked, father,
Form: Free verse
The Cockroach
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I have a carapace shiny and black,
And when I visit I do more than snack!
I scuttle about in the dead of night,
Never once do I need to use a light.
If I am seen people get a big fright,
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Categories:
unsmoked, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet For Sister
...O Grunge Princess, I know today your love
brims over, idle, for the rebel boy
like weed you keep, unsmoked, sitting among
your secrets in a box; the smells they cloy
and force you into longing. C...
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Categories:
unsmoked, age, break up, first
Form: Sonnet