2024 Poetry

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Noun verb.

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Warm, Sugarsweet & Wormwood Nasty

The room is warm,sugarsweet, andwormwood nasty. I've been in a warm room before with a fireplace and beautiful rug. perhaps a great pyrenees and a fuzzy man to snuggle with. My friend's mother's house is sugar sweet. It smells of candles and has collections of adorable dolls. The furniture is precious and breakable. The hovel…

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Unapologetically

Unapologetically

If you are unapologetic,Are you rude? Only if you should apologize the saying goes.  People seem to apologize too much or not enough. If I cannot be Goldilocks I supposeI should prefer to be too hot instead of too cold.

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If the bough breaks

If the bough breaks

As the weight of the snow bends the bough,I consider the weight of the world.The branch could crackAnd part of it will be lostLeaving a scarAnd a feeling in the treeThat it is incomplete.Or a wind of change could comeAnd cause all that troubles the treeTo cascade to its foundation.But for now, it bends and…

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looking for love

looking for love

I don’t think I’ll look for love again. maybe I’ll seek out a dark alley with opioid addicts, hoping for a victim from a foreign town whose absence won’t be noticed for a week or more. or perhaps I’ll take out an ad in the classifieds, if they still have those. I’ll list all of…

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pokemon

I collect people like Pokémon cards. I can tell which species they match with. I merge them to evolve into a new being. done. Discard them and send them on their way. Or I keep them wrapped tight with a rubber band for the day when I find another one.

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Lonely Blackbird

Lonely Blackbird

The lonely blackbird criesAs she flies across the morning skyOverdue at home to a family“I’m coming, I’m coming.” With nowhere to beAnd no one to take care ofI watch. And sip my coffee.And sigh.

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catching up with old friends

Parker got arrested.Ben's not speaking to his father.Maya's moving away.We're separated.Kyle started school.I had to work on my child's 1st day of school.and I woke up late.My mother's dying.I'm moving.I miss your father every day.

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It is a hard thing to be born

It is a hard thing to be born;to leave the comfort of your mother's home,to leave the place where everything is taken care of for you and come into this cold world. It is a hard thing to be born.Have no control over what is happening to you.to have everything about your life change. It…

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What I don’t need

What I don’t need

I don’t need to write another poem about youHow ironic this poemIs about you.But this is the lastI don’t need to hear another poem about youOr hear a poem about love or hate and think it's about you. Because this is the last time I'll think about youWhen I hear the word Love. or hate.…

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