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Whittling Down

...As we age, we whittle down
The things that we can do
Or the ways that we can do them
So we last the whole day through.

I’ve whittled down my exercise
And how much I can drink.
My energy’s bee...
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Categories: whittle down, age, change,
Form: Rhyme

Never Again

...A bird in a cage, I refuse to be bound,
Transport Adaptee will never break me,
I am no rotting fish; for all to see ,
Your rules are like chains  ,time to break them down,
I'm no prune and certai...
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Categories: whittle down, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet



My Childhood Christmas

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The folded corners and wrinkled pages
of catalogs that were tattered and ripped
From the first of October until late in December
we drooled,
we fawned,
we lusted, 
we swooned and giggled
mut...
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Categories: whittle down, christmas, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Why I Need a Man When I Am Too Much In a Lady-Like Skin

...Why I need a man when I am too much in a lady-like skin ?
 
There are hundreds of reasons, there must be. 
The first reason is perhaps loneliness.  
Over-pouring. Overflowing. 
Fictitious charac...
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Categories: whittle down, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 29

...Cries of beast and man intertwine,
mortals lamenting what has been done,
this night is filled with sorrow,
forever horrific scenes pressed into the mind.
From this sorrow, can glory really take f...
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Categories: whittle down, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic



Whittling

...The time has finally come, at last,
To start to whittle down the past.
I comb the closets and each drawer
For things I don’t wear anymore.

My tennis shorts for younger thighs;
My Reeboks worn ...
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Categories: whittle down, clothes,
Form: Rhyme

Whittled Down

...Purposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten memoirs pieced together yet...
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Categories: whittle down, missing you,
Form: Free verse

I Got a Gat

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I got a gat
that's badder than yours
My rat-a-tat-tat
makes a whole lot of noise
My metal numbers,
whether big or small,
can outperform yours
in the streets or at the mall...
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Categories: whittle down, allusion, humor, humorous, violence,
Form: Rhyme

The Gods Are Not Blind

...You dig a tunnel and blind it with velvelt
You throw a rose on the velvelt and welcome me to the throne
What do you call my crime?

You water down my wine and whittle down the sparkle
You savour...
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Categories: whittle down, betrayal,
Form: Triolet

Breathless

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I consume twisted winds from your soul,
To retrieve cruel love from aching hole,
I accept poisoned and twisted past,
Invoking true love that forever lasts.
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As we have been cheated by...
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Categories: whittle down, love, romance, sexy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhenever Windstorms Vaunt

...Whenever windstorms vaunt majestic force,
the elements of earth revise their face,
a flowing stream may even change its course
or yeasting agents alter claimant space.

Whenever windstorms vaunt...
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Categories: whittle down, dark, storm, wind,
Form: Quatrain

Marketability

...to be a single woman in
america & aging to boot,
one must have breasts that sing to
the air (that never fall, that never
sag, that never do anything but
what the magazines show on
their covers).

to ...
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Categories: whittle down, life, woman, dream, america,
Form: Free verse

Passion

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Passion

Passion can be very good,
But it is misunderstood.
“Passion” comes from the word for “suffering,”
So, in a sense, without buffering:

It can give, but it too takes,
For e...
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Categories: whittle down, passionlife, heart, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme

Shiny

...Devices pull at my trigger
coaxing with memory vacant
to urge a splurge from me
without regret, without vigor,
an ageless chant that can't

rise to the level of ethics
or all corruption resoun...
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Categories: whittle down, depression
Form: Lyric

Infusing Deceit

...Hefty doctrines shape the flesh
with centuries of arrogance from
the thieving classes until every
brand wields potential to kill off
multitudes of souls asleep, yet
no longer dreaming of salvati...
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Categories: whittle down, health, losslife,
Form: Free verse

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