One X and Two Ys
...I was a double yoke baby
one X and two Ys
Obvious from birth
From the hair on my pubic
To the size of my girth...
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Categories:
ys, baby, fate, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Sand Clock
...As we speak, time goes by, tick ticking
| Sand is trickling down, slowly |
| Life goes on, seconds are |
| turning to minutes |
| ...
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Categories:
ys, time,
Form: Concrete
Ice Skating
...At Lake Mission Bell, after the winter scared it solid, kids carve short stories in broken, confused cursive into the ice with pens of sharpened steel. It’s a beautiful thing to watch geniuses compo...
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Categories:
ys, children, winter, writing,
Form: Haibun
Make the Gentle Softer
...I feel my fingertips
pierce my skin
as i try to rip my head in half
Haves or stomach knot
Grit my teeth
until i taste clot
Oh words take my dark words to
a place of light
make the gentle soft...
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Categories:
ys, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Aliens
...I met two aliens once. They were poets
like me, I mean, a poet and a poetess.
Their language sounded like music, though its
gender distinction wasn't hard to notice.
She’s from the Venus, he is...
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Categories:
ys, language,
Form: Rhyme
She Loves
...they sought those who's hearts they wished to break
night by night they were people under the grace of
their own beliefs and doings.
people who wished to be together in a time of their
own confus...
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Categories:
ys, beautiful, feelings, happiness, integrity,
Form: Lyric
I Never Got Math
...Math, the words strike terror in my soul. I never got it.
Well, maybe once, but a long time ago, before you were born.
When I returned to college after a twenty-five year hiatus,
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Categories:
ys, perspective, school, self, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Insomnia
...I cried "my father" less twice
Say thrice for I called the second
Hiding my scared face from the lightening flash
True the light is light
Or what else could be lighter?
After weaning through...
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Categories:
ys, anxiety, dark, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
You Are You
...I asked when he came
what is your name?
He replied in a reflex
I am called X.
I thought he was joking
or a mad man in the making.
I smiled and asked why
you are not called XY?
There are many ...
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Categories:
ys, identity, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
A Family of Roley Poleys
...We're a great big family of roley poleys
We'd sure make some great hockey goalies
No pucks could get past
Unless we fall on our ass
Even then we'd be just as tall with no hole-ys...
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Categories:
ys, silly,
Form: Limerick
There We Are
...There we are
The journey proceed
with smiles and pain,
What we had now,will not lust forever
but luckly this destiny has unite us back together.
The floor was so sleeper,
That we coul...
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Categories:
ys, addiction, africa, age, art,
Form: Bio
Adore You
...ADORE YOU
Am only the guy with no pac
Am only the guy,girls say i suck
Am only the guy,fellas dont put me on track
Am only the guy,Whome love has never tried.
Your only the girl on high
Yo...
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Categories:
ys, best friend,
Form: Classicism
My Pa,My Ma My Parents
...My Pa,
My Ma,
My parents,
Pa a gent,
Ma his agent,
Pa spends,
Pa(ys)rent,
Ma at home,on rent!...
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Categories:
ys, humor, parents,
Form: Free verse
Negative Poles
...I-- love
you still
but I can see
That our paths have gone awry
Our parallels have turned to Ys
And I do not know h...
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Categories:
ys, goodbye, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Concrete