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Angel’s Heartbreak is Profound

...Preferential treatment does hurt.
Jealousy swept under bedskirt.
She pinches the harp in background.
Those black and blues strings, plucked, resound.

The eldest withdraws with lone wor...

Categories: untucked, heartbreak,
Form: Kyrielle

Certification of Departure

...I wish these pills prescribed could give me a hug
I wish they could turn into someone who’s gone that I loved Instead they’re a thin throw, blanketing the pain I keep of you from dropping to negativ...

Categories: untucked, deep, grief, hope, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Folded Napkins

...
The napkins were cut and woven in her dad’s barn that he and his dad built from the broken oaks. 
Each clump of cotton piled up in front of her 
Leave and left
She thought
The warp was fixed on...

Categories: untucked, 7th grade, childhood, farm,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Embarrassing Mornings

...My freshman year is ending and I’m as busy as a one-armed juggler. Of course covid is back. 
It reoccurs at the worst times, like a movie slasher long thought dead.

When we have something schedul...

Categories: untucked, humor, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse

Fuzzy Socks and Crocs

...There are sights that can give me a start-
silly things that turn cold my warm heart;
fuzzy socks and big crocs
is an image that blocks
me accepting them as looking smart!

And for sure, when a...

Categories: untucked, funny, image,
Form: Limerick

The Rose

...In the blue vase, hip high 
Is a rose 

Not a new rose, days have gone by
Since first blossom, and timeless scent
Fragile neck, a green cord, bent to the right
As if falling to one side in a ha...

Categories: untucked, red, rose,
Form: Free verse

The Fool

...A beguiling fool lonely and lost
Created chaos looking for love
Stirring and seducing every skirt in his wake
No shame no morality a gutless snake
In the midst of his bliss so happy was he
Forge...

Categories: untucked, humor,
Form: Free verse

The Earth and Sea

...Somewhere between the simple, slow and quiet
She found him, far away from the touristy crowd
Shirt untucked, canvas slung over his shoulder
His skin, warm and salty
Sweet leftovers from his affair wi...

Categories: untucked, love,
Form: Free verse

Two Lonesome Doves

...Just two lonesome doves lost in a field full of grain
if one flies one way the other will be lost in the wind
oh, but how those doves wanted to be free but were so scared 
holding onto each other unt...

Categories: untucked, devotion, lost love, love,
Form: Epic

Recipe For a Sunday Morning

...A stirring lilac breeze for an alarm or,
alternatively, a morning dove's song

Minimum one, maximum two people
absolutely no minors

Several medium-firm pillows
a well-fluffed quilt, untucked
...

Categories: untucked, life,
Form: Free verse

Wistful Aging

...Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts

Absolutely no Botox or fillers for me
Anothe...

Categories: untucked, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse

A Long Journey's Ride To Death's Own Door

...Yea tho' i may busy myself at the docks to an unbusied time.
Watching idly the tick of the clock's digited passage.
Manual labor tugs at my unattentive sleeves as like a well loosened
Untucked shi...

Categories: untucked, confusion, death, lost love,
Form: I do not know?

A Little Hope For An Addict of Dope

...each day of living i let
go of the hands
that i called
when i should have bet
or remembered
when it was best
to just forget
gave away
with nothing to get
back 
stayed where i was at
when i...

Categories: untucked, forgiveness, happiness, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?