Introspection Wedding Poems

Villanelle   L Milton Hankins         Aug 18th, 2022
A Corner Booth and Eggs Benedict

The mood needs to...

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Let us bath in the spirit;
Let us splash within ourselves;
Flowing waters flow;
Drenching all sons and daughters
Naked we came into the world
While at death we just...

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File Number

364 was especially hard to deal with today. 
The worker made a check in the empty box. 
She used red ink. 

Wife beater, 
drinker,...

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Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud,...

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Used by the Muse

Here I sit, after the holidays. 
Everything is quiet, 
and waiting for the big party, 
to end the year. 

Struggling on page...

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You lick your lips;
Cause you in lust;
Will just so happens;
You're not gonna git none of this;
Cause it's just never, never gonna happen;
Cause I'm God's daughter
and...

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Once thy future spouse (Abby Zison) found herself in the family way
  (with what would turn out to be the first of our two...

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Sometimes things are up,
And sometimes they are down,
Sometimes black is white, 
And sometimes it is brown.
All the rivers flowing,
Back to the sacred sea,
All the monkeys...

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A group of ladies by the stand pipe
While the tassa men play their tune
This is the lawa morning
I getting marry this afternoon

A bunch of foreigners...

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Your paper-thin porcelain skin,
I know how to get right under it.
For kicks is why I do it now.
You tell me to love but I never...

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grapes inhale sunshine
grow fat and plump on raindrops
sweet drink for fine meal

grapes inhale sunshine
grow fat and plump on raindrops
fine gift for sweet girl

grapes inhale sunshine
grow...

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The Nameless


Slipping through the sieve of history,

the nameless rest.

Not for the nameless are roads renamed, nor monuments built.

Not for the nameless are songs sung, nor...

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A family had a wedding...  The brother wasn’t invited.
The fact they didn’t want him,.. 
Was already decided!

When asked why his name had been “omitted.”
It...

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The cold of the winter bites 
As she hurried walk home
The bus was late tonight
She don’t like to be out alone

She got out her keys
Lock...

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To be but also being too
To being two or to be one, too....

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