The Dangers of Mankind is Man
...Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you succeed?
She looked as she had.
An abandon...
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Categories:
unwashable, grandmother, grief, holocaust, irony,
Form: Free verse
Fashioned Fortitude
...A mirror never reveals
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;
time unmutes raven melodies within,
tawny tunes of truth~
I once spoke in colorful dialects.
Now, I trust just the...
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Categories:
unwashable, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Enigma
..."I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which." James A. Owen
In a white man's world,
I've become an enigma,
feeling like I don't belong,
trying to break the stigma.
In these mental...
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Categories:
unwashable, abuse, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Skinwalker
...
"Skinwalker"
That one’s mind
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy
cer...
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Categories:
unwashable, muse,
Form: Free verse
Unclean
...After a bath, i feel clean.
but there remains other unwashable things.
Spots and stains by many kinds of sin.
After a bath and a prayer,
inside and out, It is like being ,
one half clean and the...
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Categories:
unwashable, life, metaphor, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Unwashable Handshakes
...White Faces
and We the People
go hand in hand.
White hands
shake
white hands
without ever washing
their hands.
Handcuffs,
In God we trust
Affirmations
rendered on
God's word
promotes e...
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Categories:
unwashable, corruption, racism, slavery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Planned Parenthood Diabolical Money Maker
...Planned Parenthood’s Diabolical Money Maker!!!
The most heinous crime that has been demonically inspired
surely came from Hell below;
tearing an unborn helpless baby from inside his mother’s wo...
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Categories:
unwashable, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Etched
...The sun has set upon the hills
The moonlight glares as my body
Awaits the embrace of dreams.
My mind wanders, my thoughts drift
A noise stirs in the silence,
The crash foreshadows more.
A scream—...
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Categories:
unwashable, abuse, horror, innocence, loss,
Form: Narrative
The City Mob
...the dead eyes frighten
when the secret held by many
has already seasoned the crowd
now fed up with everything &
dead set with nothing left to lose
out in the street where they know
deep in their hea...
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Categories:
unwashable, life,
Form: Free verse
Broken Dam
...Let’s not go,
let’s not reach anywhere.
The toenails have started digging in the earth,
to make peace with the distress response
of the bruised hunger for transactional surrender.
And the sur...
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Categories:
unwashable, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Victory Is Is a Vain Word
...The silent battlefield has drawn its armorial...
no smoke rising from weapons so unsurpassable;
bodies lying on the bloody grass;
some writhing, many lifeless!
One nation has risen against ano...
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Categories:
unwashable, faith, history, loss, people,
Form: Ballad