Depression Wave Poems

I know an elderly lady
At her window she sits
She's always there when I go out
watching the world and people about
She waves and I wave back
an...

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It's ninety eight degrees
in Jersey,
your hug felt limp, 
sweaty,
and forced,
like the old air conditioner
that creaked to life
when you made us coffee,
looking into my eyes,
just to...

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My palace of gold 
Nothing but a shaky house of cards 
My everlasting kingdom 
Becoming less than an empire of dirt 

The weight of this...

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Floating on top of a rushing rapids
Not falling in, been taking antacids
Brain full of fog with my eyes underground
Surfing on static while laying around

A TV...

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The Wave

The vastness of the ocean
An inconceivable body of water
The crushing weight cascading
As if all of creation came tumbling
In the face of such awful power
The...

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Drink deep from an uncaring mother's breast
As the sole consolation prize for the sin of aging
Break yourself upon a wave of malice
Sweeping the unworthy along...

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Wave the flag of love
We have forgotten 
To wave a flag 
A flag that signify life 
A flag for all 
Doesn't matter who you are...

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Spring tide
pounding against
a rocky relationship

between the
new moon and
earth’s pie in the sky.

On an island
of one’s own making
in the mind —

like a whirlpool
when imagination
slips away

on a...

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The gravity of the wave of deceit has pulled political integrity
To its lowest ebb and flow, smothering morality with quagmires
Of electorial power abuse and sarcastic...

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Photos
Dipped in wine
Tear drops
Emotional scares
Upon my face
The past stares right back
Into my broken windows
Baby boy
With teddy bear nightmares
Grown up man
Fighting his monsters
War of the depressed...

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The Tidal Wave

I saw a tidal wave come in,
Raging winds and fierce water
Rushed,
Took the houses, cars, trees,
Street signs, park benches,
Pictures of loved ones
(Poor baby Louie,...

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Just like a wave,
The love I crave,
Rise's up fast,
and doesnt last.

Just like a wave,
The passion I crave,
Makes me a slave,
and dribbles back.

Just like the rain,
I...

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Your hedonistic desires
replaced by a gonz0-journalism truth
while you stand at the precipice,
crying at the high-water mark.

you're not alone,
a whole generation
of alma matter hopefuls
gather here
to stare...

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