Trapped
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I scratch a few words
And lift my pen to see
A waste paper basket
Overflowing with need
Stitched and twined of intrigue
To vulnerable to say
A togue tided insecurity
With words I l...
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Categories:
waste paper basket, desire, endurance, irony, love,
Form: Free verse
Faith Has Opened The Door
...LYRIC
All the love
I hold
An infinite roll twisting and turning
out of control
And all the waste paper basket dreams
I scribe I scratch and throw it away
I was born in a s...
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Categories:
waste paper basket, beauty, fate, first love,
Form: Lyric
Basket Case
...A waste paper basket, a trash can, a bin
Whatever you call it, some things won’t stay in
The things that you write
Long into the night
May make, when discarded… one hell of a din
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Categories:
waste paper basket, horror, writing,
Form: Limerick
Long, Long Ago
...I find the one remaining photograph from my wedding:
everyone is still smiling, despite the way things turned out
(time can fade print, but the smiles remain fixed forever).
Somehow, that one pict...
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Categories:
waste paper basket, loss,
Form: Narrative
A White Sheet of Paper Part I
..."A White Sheet of Paper." Part1
Once upon a time I was a white sheet of paper
Pilled between hundreds on a shelf my neighbor
For years was an old stapler.
I was full of life yet dreading never to...
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Categories:
waste paper basket, imagination,
Form: Prose Poetry