An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
...
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Categories:
vociferating, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Echo Returns Not
...Locked in a room with no windows
I became a shadow
Invisible and unheeded
Having as duty, the slow and steady merging
Of myself with the dirty walls
As time went by,
I stopped feeling myself...
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Categories:
vociferating, allegory, life,
Form: Free verse
Wounded Whisper
...Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Quote by Fulton J. Sheen<...
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Categories:
vociferating, analogy, anxiety, bereavement, child
Form: Rhyme
Marital Covenant Chaste Away Errant Infidelity
...Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before
"...
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Categories:
vociferating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Like Daisies On Stalks
...Besotted winged pollinators
roistering barrage drowned
amidst general insectivorous cacophony
indistinct auditory signals communicated
intermingled with bounteous wafting fragrance
midwifed ed...
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Categories:
vociferating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Oh Fate, Why
...i hear voices in my head,
vociferating out endlessly,
with each thumping heartstroke,
intermitted by eerie visions,
im haunted by fate
woven by the yarns of uncertainty,
coiled from my pa...
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Categories:
vociferating, allusion, anger,
Form: Sonnet
The Storm
...The Storm by Jennrut
Soiled
Drum drum drum drum...
A pained, wet leaf
saturated by the storm's reverberating pressure.
Compacted,
Smothered by heavy soil which consumes it
Weighted by ...
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Categories:
vociferating, abuse, change, courage, feelings,
Form: Prose Poetry
Knocking On Heaven's Doors
...I’m knocking
on heaven’s doors,
for I need
to complain
to the All Mighty.
No one cares
to answer me.
I’m left
to ponder
with my
drizzling
drenching
drips and drops
of tears.
I inte...
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Categories:
vociferating, confusion, loss, people, sad,
Form: Free verse