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Defined by Submission Prove your womanhoodFrom the barrel of a gunLiberty strip searchedSo they can have their fun Their touch cold Methodical in fashionThis act a power playMore than fits of passion They find full breasts Narrow waists with wide hipsDainty hands, feet, faces,Soft skin, and pink nips, But again they demand Sternly, more than…
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“Is a haiku microwave safe?”This message is brought to you byGoogling before the coffee kicks in. _____ Artificial insectsKind of like regular insectsOnly with corn syrup And Red 40 dye. ______ On your lipsConsonants contortAnd vowels slipSlide into apostrophes,Still no excuse to resort To ChatGPT ______ Humanity in AIHide the truth within the lieUpload our…
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I went to the tent cityBefore it was made illegalBefore dignity became a monthly expense.I went to the tent cityHopeless feckless bystanderTo a pain I couldn’t understandI went to the tent cityAnd all I gaveWas this lousy t-shirt. _____ We tell stories of floating citiesfalling from the sky,Not realizing…The air is getting thin up hereAnd…
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“Follow the spiritof freshwater streams safeto sanctuary prisms light the way,don’t stray too far from the banksoon, find home again.” Last words from the caveas I followed directionlit by sun and moons. Like spectacle gleamtwo moons peered behind the cloudsas I stream bound walked witness to the joyof Naiads at play, splashessound of chimes and…
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Characters: Melody = Hippe Priestess Vibes Cc = Bizagoth Iggy = Mary Poppins Punk Yow = Cryptid good boy * Setting: Kitchen (I swear there’s other rooms in the house, I just really like this, so we’re going with it. Glad you agree, let’s go!) * Melody walks in carrying the mail, Iggy is sitting…
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Characters: Iggy = Punk Mary Poppins Cc = Bizagoth Melody = Hippie Priestess Vibes Yow = Cryptid dog, alternates between gray-white and pitch black fur depending on the day, deep piercing red eyes, good boy * Setting: Kitchen, pantry open, Iggy digging thru it with a leash looped in one hand as Yow is sniffs…
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Characters: Cc = “Business Goth” Melody = “Hippie Priestess Vibes” Iggy = “Punk Mary Poppins” * Setting = The stoop outside the backdoor of the kitchen. Iggy is curled up inside somewhere like a cat (on a chair, the floor, a bed, who knows, but she’s absent from this conversation). Cc smokes a cigar looking…
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Sunrise burns pink hopepromises, a new day donsits merry greeting. Echos of sleep dreamsfleeting glimpses of home hideas I awaken the cave celebratesthe moment glowing yellow,no longer alone. Chaos tastes strangely when ladled by hand out of pearl freshwater streams The cave yawns open on the grey rock candy grass,pearl spring waters run the cave…
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I don’t know who I amso please, Forgive my voiceI can’t control which oneof the three I will use todayit alters, changes shapeI often dissociate lose time evenin the middle of a rhymeI don’t know who I am the post it note poetmanic pixie poly, everyone’s my familyMary Poppins protester punk, or perhaps the Bizagoth…
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Not many people know this butwhen you first came outyou told your parents first.Not your birth parentsbut the ones who helped raise youwoke up at night to settle you downchanged your diaperstaught you how to ride a tricyclealbeit very badly (sorry for the concussion,a discussion for another time)you know, your other parentswho taught you the…
Poetry With Hart 