The Vial
Inside the chest within my chest I find it;
A vial of virulent vile,
viral in that last vestige of guile and vitality
Where the headsmen and dreadsmen line up rank and file.
That horrible phial of terrible bile of all the beasts in the wild combined into ire so hot it's like fire and skies of respire.
But what
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Categories:
vial, corruption, depression, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Vial Of Hope
Value your work the way you value your life.
In time you will realize that work and life co-exist
for a long time.
Any job is worth living for
when you put your heart in it.
Long and lasting consolation is felt,
knowing that being your "true" self
is a lifetime redemption...
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Categories:
vial, identity, inspiration, life,
Form: Acrostic
Last Vial
Draining all there was to say,
he hemorrhaged one more poem
Last vial of his history,
whose burden now atoned
With final drops to say adieu,
the past and future dead
His last tomorrow here today
—and time no longer bled
(Dreamsleep: April. April 2022)
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Categories:
vial, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Blood Tests At Labcorp Equals Vial Experience
Friday the thirteenth, (September
tooth house hind nineteen)
dark shadows winessed scads of bats
(base sic cully lobbing soupy Matzo balls)
eyeing yours truly as seldom seen
human sacrificial cuisine,
which dime a dozen story true story
red within tabloid National Enquirer 'zine.
Minus blood sucking mammals more averse
than bill collectors or insurance companies
bared fangs greeted yours truly courtesy
of bloodthirsty nurse
triggering instantaneous qualm
ordinarily,
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Categories:
vial, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Vial of Scent - 8 Words
In the dank night, windows ajar,
I look across at unshuttered rooms,
And see my neighbor quite by happenstance.
Her curtain flutters in the buoyant air.
I see her at her mirror hold a vial of scent—
Perchance I’ll see her daub a bit behind one ear,
The fragrance wafting through the courtyard
On the humid breeze, like
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Categories:
vial, dream, hope, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
vial, allegory
Form: Elegy