Visiting
...
He planned on moving out
This place that held the living dead
These halls that magnified the screams
His wristband said otherwise
Trapped here for life
Though it would be a temporary stay
In ...
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Categories:
wristband, 8th grade, devotion, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Blue Is
...Blue is the ring around my boyfriends eyes
when the light hits them.
Blue is the weird color I never used in kindergarten,
because I thought it was for boys.
Blue is the smell of salt and the so...
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Categories:
wristband, 11th grade, beach, blue,
Form: Lyric
Necklace
...If space had more than a billion stars
I would still bring them down for you
I will make you a necklace
I would take the moon as a ring
And distance as a thread
And wrap it all up
Circling it ...
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Categories:
wristband, love, romance,
Form: Verse
Glimpses
...we pull the car over
photo op for a toddler
a scintilla of snow
moments like this
a kiss from God
~
arms are open wide
for a Vermont bouquet
a spectacular display of poppie...
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Categories:
wristband, beauty, senses, time,
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday Dear Sister
...Happy birthday, my love….
Today you turn forty-seven years old, dear sister...
May your wings shine brighter today than ever before.
May my smile bring you joy and laughter. Oh, how...
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Categories:
wristband, birthday, death, dedication, sister,
Form: Verse
Wristband
...A wristband man
followed me closely
jogging
I imagine he will try
to grab me, stuff me
in the bushes any
minute
He just runs, wheezing
on....
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Categories:
wristband, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
She's Not Cheap, He's Not Daft
...No lady is cheap and dude's are not fools, the lady you've been chasing for over 12 months was in bed with a guy just three days after they met.
The lady you had in your bed in less than a week, i...
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Categories:
wristband, crazy, emotions, fantasy, feelings,
Form: ABC
Pure and White Is a Delight
...Whites a color that is pure
Like a lot of things I'm sure
Can be named and described well
In poem I'm about to tell
Snow is glistening and shiny
Creating flakes from huge to tiny
A white car with two...
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Categories:
wristband, angel, baby, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Helpless Hate
...Her pain provokes an anger deep
from within..
A hatred so ugly even the devil
himself looks in disgust as he shakes
an icy chill from his thorny spine.
Her struggle pains me..
A deep, searing pa...
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Categories:
wristband, death, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Buried In My Bikes
...Time is ticking down
I’ve got eighty yards to go
It’s the last game of the season
The fans are sitting down
Our mascot is a clown
And I don’t even know the reason
Coach signals in a play
I g...
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Categories:
wristband, allegory, life, high school,
Form: Rhyme
There Was Six
...It wasn’t until this evening while I was sitting
in the hospital lobby watching blood pour from
underneath my chair from the women behind me
waiting for my name to be murmured over the loud speak...
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Categories:
wristband, adventurefamily, old, tree, child,
Form: Free verse
Wristbands
...And then the focus came from the ground
Where leaves go and love grows
And how the brain burns
In the flashing pace of heavy guilt
The still-watered moments
Borne out of raisins and ants
And ev...
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Categories:
wristband, life
Form: Free verse