A Wish in The Heel
...I squeak from exhaustion,
scrub vomit from the school floors,
absorb the weight of every spilled secret
behind washroom doors.
I smell of bleach and failure.
polish mirrors for reflection and ...
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Categories:
washroom, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
A Good Sense Of Humour Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance
to your steps, as you walk the tightrope of life.
Quote By William Arthur Ward
We were young and fill...
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Categories:
washroom, appreciation, health, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Mirrorbreed
...Mirror in the washroom, mirror in the hall,
who is the saddest, most tragic of all?
Me, me, me— our chant, our plea, our scroll.
We cry for heartbreak, curse what we recall,
mourn mood swings and...
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Categories:
washroom, imagination, mirror, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Shadowed Games
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Shadow Games
While my back was turned, you slipped into the store,
Went to the washroom, then out once more.
You could’ve retraced your steps, stayed out of sight,
But you leapt the chain—m...
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Categories:
washroom, angst, betrayal, blessing, dark,
Form: Free verse
When I Bring Home a Deer
...When I bring home a deer...
to live in our living room, my roommate
won't hear of it. Fear of what? I will ask.
He has no horns. He eats only oats, but
not yours only; I bought him some food.
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Categories:
washroom, animal, pets,
Form: Free verse
Fries And Burgers
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Feeling kinda cruddy, yup, that's the word
Too many fries, too many burgs
When will I learn I can't handle that stuff
Stomach rebels, starts causing a fuss
Once could eat nails and ...
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Categories:
washroom, food,
Form: Free verse
They speak of cleanliness
...Strands of hairs on floors galore,
Papers and rags strewn over the tables,
Clothes on the sofa seats,hung on the chairs,
Cobwebs and spiders on the ceilings and walls,
Moldy food and vege...
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Categories:
washroom, environment, religion, science, social,
Form: Free verse
Holding With Tears
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It was a fine porcelain washroom art,
ravaging time broke the pieces apart.
Water from faucet still flows,
clings to smashed frame of friend close,
just like I hold with tears my bro...
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Categories:
washroom, analogy, heartbroken,
Form: Limerick
Shisha
...Suddenly aroma of sweet shisha flew from across the room,
As I walk out of hot-boxed washroom, and into the living room,
I see love of my life in a chair far across the room....
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Categories:
washroom, addiction, boyfriend, drug, first
Form: Sijo
The Case of the Missing Socks
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Dear Curious Youth
And inquisitive Sleuth
I present to you a quandary
A baffling report
An enigma of sort
Whenever I do my laundry
It’s quite odd enough
That some certa...
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Categories:
washroom, funny, missing, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
what about pink we wondered
...Everything was pink for Zee when she was a child
Hot pink, light pink, medium pink, nothing blah or mild
Pink bed, pink pillow, pink closet, pink clothes, pink doll
If it was not pink, Zee simply ...
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Categories:
washroom, art,
Form: Rhyme
What About Pink
...Everything was pink for Zee when she was a child
Hot pink, light pink, medium pink, nothing blah or mild
Pink bed, pink pillow, pink closet, pink clothes, pink doll
If it was not pink, Zee simply ...
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Categories:
washroom, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Connections
...I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the cords are running i...
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Categories:
washroom, appreciation, beautiful, business, caregiving,
Form: Narrative
Boys Will Be Boys
...He’d have to take his new jeans off to swim
Or mom is sure to paddle his tail.
So, his skinned them off, climbed atop the railroad bridge,
folding them with the greatest care, laid them on the ra...
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Categories:
washroom, childhood, clothes, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Your Name
...I don't dream anymore
I am ugly without you.
I don't live anymore.
I am incomplete without you.
I am lonely
Like when my mother used to go out
When I was little child.
My life stopped when you...
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Categories:
washroom, beautiful, break up, change,
Form: Free verse
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