Doctored
...scalpel!
gently saw at the sides of the face
let it fall apart at the seams
now, put it up against yours
does it fit? is it a perfect match?
it feels cold, unwelcoming
the eye...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, women, world, youth,
Form: Free verse
House by the Sea
...They hang like a beaded curtain
in a fortune teller’s parlor,
each buoy a bauble
from the sea’s own trove—
sun-faded,
barnacle-bitten,
unstrung from nets
that once strained tides for omens...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, house, imagery, mystery, ocean,
Form: Free verse
The Difference a Rhyme Makes
...Ominous leaden clouds sink low in the sky overhead.
Tiny sparrows cease to fly and seek shelter instead.
Shadows fade, the sun slinks away and disappears.
The gloomy day only increases all uncerta...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, angst, color, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter With The Sweet
...
bitter
acerbic, unpleasant
sneering, alarming, unwelcoming
acidulent, caustic, saccharine, confection
tasting, appre...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
Self Expression
...I wish I could untie my tongue --
find courage, strength to shine
light upon those least illumined
recesses still hidden from public
view, shielded and scabbed over
like festering raw wounds...m...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, 9th grade, absence, age,
Form: Free verse
Petals in Stone
...A single seed was carried far from home,
When taken by the wind one fateful day.
She knew not where she'd land, how far she'd roam,
Nor what she might endure along the way.
She tumbled and she ...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, faith, garden, growth, moving
Form: Rhyme
Self Centered Greed
...4/24/24
I've played plenty
On my conscious life weighed heavy
I have to stay ready
Then aim steady
Obstacles I will face many
Can't give ground or let them take any
These snakes pesky
Oft...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The old fart alter cocker shuffle
...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
From the Cliff
...The brightest yellow ball is dilute on the vast blue horizon.
The heavenly peace that the restless breezes create is indescribable.
It might be the last day for overthinking minds, unsettled fe...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, anxiety, blessing, blue, cry,
Form: I do not know?
The Fall of Divinity
...Amidst the fiery pits, where heaven's memories of betrayal reside,
False divinities reign over each flame of inferno wide.
Mankind roams in robes of despair, with blades of might on their bones,
E...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, allegory, betrayal, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Century-Twenty Two
...A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the power
And the gl...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, social, society,
Form: Free verse
I Didn'T Know You Then
...I DIDN'T KNOW YOU THEN
I didn't know you then but
Because you strutted alone
Unafraid, attired in outrageously loud colours,
Performing your provocative
Dance of sacred magic
Through sombr...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, courage, discrimination, endurance, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Tied To Tradition
...They pierce the unwelcoming night,
perserving eyes that receive nothing
but an unwholesome darkness,
hot accelerated breath scorches the
freezing air, as it penetrates
in entirety her raffish b...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, irony,
Form: Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 46
...Over the next two evenings after the Council had recessed, Seileach visited each of the Councilman who had voted to release Dyndoeth in an effort to assess their feelings about whether they were incl...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
The Clearing
...Pulling myself from the brush
thorn ripping tictures in skin and cloth
a mumble from the darkening clouds
whisper traces of slipping rain
before me stood a battered domain
its windowed eyes
unw...
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Categories:
unwelcoming, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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