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Category: Poetry

Poem: Number One

06/14/2020

Poetry

Fractions, multiplication, decimals with addition, I come to you with a plea. Help me unwarp my jumbled mind and let me rest for a moment or two. I cannot do it alone and it’s dark during the day. Dropped off numbers, pulled too far away, the next column reeks of confusion, following much too close…
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Poem: Basket Case

06/11/2020

Poetry

Weaving a basket takes time, in and out, out and in. Fingers working the fiber, back and forth, forth and back. Little rest in between, up and down, down and up. Less time with food, bite and swallow, swallow and bite. Moving basket to another place, one and two, two and one. Overcome with many…
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Poem: Innocent Jello

06/05/2020

Poetry

I saw the red drops left behind, making sure it didn’t slosh too high, the jello in the tray, little cubes that were cut when solid, four across and three deep. I scooped them out with my fingers, swallowed them whole, not knowing the gelatin inside, the stuff once belonging in bones and skin, animals…
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Poem: Past Tense

05/31/2020

Poetry

You owe me more time, I was that minority, the one the world saw on the street. One second more turned to death, one more minute brought upon arrest, and privacy no longer mattered. You spread the fires, flames burning across the lands, outrage and frustration not dying out. You made it so clear, counterfeit…
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Poem: Wishful Thinking

05/25/2020

Poetry

Oh, how I wish, for things to come my way. I do wish for things in far away places. Things that bring me joy again, keeping close to me. No one remembers the good things anymore. I want to hear your deep laugh. It was from far within, that spot you only knew. The spot…
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Poem: Resistance

05/25/2020

Poetry

Hunger Eating for two When there’s not Stuffing it in Wishing it away But it won’t. Apprehensive It will reveal These are the things One cannot escape They grow out of proportion Waiting for the right time. Turning Into something else Too brutal And chill inducing The lids want to close To this sight. …
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Poem: Voice

05/10/2020

Poetry

I hear your voice, the one that makes me want to scream, joyfully out loud. It doesn’t matter if I never meet you. Not caring if your hands never touch my face, but knowing you somehow fully see me in the power you have. All it takes is for you to open your mouth, to…
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Poem: I Am Not The One

05/10/2020

Poetry

Control your fears while there’s time, the rats still scurry around, a man walks the streets today dumbfounded, maybe gone the next day and underground. No more music, lesser dancing, loss of children in select towns, consider yourself lucky the Pied Piper, did not come around. He waits patiently day and night, for everyone including…
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Poem: Broken Chin

05/10/2020

Poetry, Random Posts

She took mine and I took hers, that is the way it built. With each placement of our steps, and dirt kicking under our shoes, failure easily entered. Careless thoughts and broken promises, nothing but stomping, it was second nature. She let go of my freedom, my lasting appeal, our chins no longer supporting each…
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Poem: The King

05/05/2020

Poetry

Now is not the time to walk, nor the time to talk of plans that will not work. I have seen what the darkness does to a man, destroys him inch by inch, not leaving anything to chance. Losing precious inches from head and foot, it is not the demon’s fault but our own. When…
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Poem: After Death

05/03/2020

Poetry

There is no need to cry heavy tears, to perch on the ground in front of my gravestone, for I shall not know if you wear my favorite necklace. It is good enough for you to think of me at night in your king size bed, nothing can stop the meaning of our vitality, not…
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Poem: Down and Up

04/24/2020

Poetry

Down in the pit, it’s not so dark or lonely here, as some said, those that speak before knowing the truth. When I was in the pit, not so long ago, the third week of the fourth month, the sun a warm memory, I stood in understanding. When nights followed another in the pit, close…
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Poem: Origins

04/12/2020

Poetry

I call you one more time, in the silence of the day, the sign too enormous not to see, to let you know, the fight is not over, the solution has not been destroyed. I call you not too loudly, where they will hear us whisper, appreciating the doorways, opening wider to the blinding heat,…
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