A Milton Creek Update
...There's been a heck of a lot goin' on in and around Milton Creek.
Folks are ridin' in from far away. I fear trouble some might seek.
There's been big gold nuggets found not too far away in a stream...
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Categories:
wreak, community,
Form: Narrative
Post-Sl-t Clarity
...My loneliness holds me by a chokehold
reality's a struggle to swallow
rough sex, a remedy
to off problems until tomorrow
Spent the day sulking in post-**** clarity
devouring hunger for breakf...
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Categories:
wreak, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Never A Gain
...I’ve been asked to explain the words ‘Never A Gain’!
So I’ll limn it here plain, all that’s ‘Never A Gain’:
Death, destruction and pain define Never A Gain,
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Categories:
wreak, death, history, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Modern day slavery
...The world drowns us in problems
Then expects us to breathe solutions
In a society that demands whispers of lullabies rocking them to sleep
Whilst we deal with the havoc they wreak
Safe in th...
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Categories:
wreak, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
wreak, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
Inner struggle
...I accepted being the third wheel
But now the fifth?
It's like I'm made out of steel
I became a myth
Still can't believe it's real
I can feel everything in my pith
I wake up everyday
Hoping i...
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Categories:
wreak, 12th grade, child, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Circling the Drain
...I don't agree with it at all.
A grand heart and good deeds
hold no weight -are not part the equation.
This scale is unbalanced and highly flawed.
So, you're telling me that you can be
a filthy ...
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Categories:
wreak, religion,
Form: Free verse
Heartbreak
...O’ Casagemas,
what is this Heartbreak I hear,
from this woman with sagged, fired breasts
and onion hips that tell a strumpet?
This cruel, shameless voyeur
with little mind — who owns a
vaingl...
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Categories:
wreak, heartbreak, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Jofra vs Burmrah the crown jewel duel
...Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle
Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court
Fraught as they face a serious deleteriou...
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Categories:
wreak, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Iron Veils in Shadowy Vales
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From the crag I see the path
descend into the valley
shrouded in the shadows of
doubt, uncertainty, and fear of failure.
I see a white pillar cast in regret's cold salt-stone,
from which there...
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Categories:
wreak, angst, dedication, fear,
Form: Free verse
An Aura About It
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Two nights from now
for the 3,337th time
Israel will tell the story
of her redemption
from Egypt
from generations of enslavement there
On that night there...
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Categories:
wreak, god, history, hope, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Devil's Breath
...Tempests of
inclemency
Cyclones filled
with pain
Tornadoes come
and go at will
With nothing
to remain
Caught inside
their whirlwind
Whose spin to wreak
and hurl
A demon vortex
roaming...
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Categories:
wreak, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Evil
...He has an evil eye.
The scorpion is unlikely to stop being a villain.
Who sits quietly.
And enjoys sunlight sometimes.
And shadows at other times.
The scorpion would like a cup of tea.
He f...
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Categories:
wreak, animal,
Form: Free verse
Fishing for faith
...When problems arise, we can’t solve them with fear when things are out of your control. Human reaction is panic naturally, which is not a solution and a waste of energy that you could have held onto....
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Categories:
wreak, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
ATOP THE BLEACHERS
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We watched our neighbor, Ollie, play in his first official ’T’ ball game
from our seats atop the bleachers…in the shade.
It was a treat watching the innocent exuberance of children…
before they ...
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Categories:
wreak, baseball, family,
Form: Rhyme
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