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Poetry – Money and greed
Money and greed a want or a need? Days spent chasing dollars robs life of vibrant colors. Nights alone, awash in possessions imprisons the brain with lonely obsessions. A lifetime building physical wealth takes a toll on mental health.
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Poetry – Minor bouts of mania
minor bouts of mania fun guy get things done depressed sit in dark room give me whatever I want clean the house contact reach out talkative grocery store line love me they all love me bulldoze you all
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Poetry – please let me go
Please let me go please let me go let me flicker out of existence for a while Let this heart still let this mind be silenced let these feelings fade until I can bear to face them again.
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Poetry – Why do i
Why do I often find you staring at the moon with such desperate attraction, only to turn your back towards its soft rays of beckoning light; allowing your frigid feet to stumble forward and embrace the subtle call of the darkness pervading all the shadows before you?
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Prose poetry – Jigsaw Puzzle
Last night, I dreamt I was a jigsaw puzzle – a background of deep, midnight blue, sprinkled with golden stars. Someone came along and broke me apart, my round edges curling up as they separated. Thin fingers pierced the middle of each cardboard edge with green metal hooks, the kind used to hang Christmas bulbs. […]
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Poetry – A Withering Smile
An icy glance a withering smile – and again you’ve shaken my faith for a while.
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Poetry – Reverse Engineering
Most prefer the beginning before the end, but I offer an alternative, let’s allow the end to predict the beginning. – marandarussell.com *thanks to Jonathan Caswell for the title inspiration!
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Poetry Bits – Titles
A couple bits of poetry written around the theme of “titles”.
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Poetry – What Would Maya Angelou Write?
A tribute to the late, great poet Maya Angelou.
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Poetry – Subterranean
A poem about envying the freedom of others when you have imprisoned yourself.
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