high off life or cotton candy or funnel cake with strawberries hair red bleached & baked by chlorine’s date with the sun jean shorts still heavy from rapids promising a shower or a soak knees wobbly after using a rollercoaster to air dry teddy bear bigger than you cause you’ve looked 12 since you were... Continue Reading →
The End
fade to black nothingness deafening silence curled up in a corner chin resting on knees all enclosed in a shirt gazing around at emptiness no white light no meeting with the saints no walking through the clouds no daddy there to hold me comfort me no one to tell me it’s okay that those I... Continue Reading →
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In her arms…
perched in the center of the pillows I wait for her to come and hold me so I can give her the soft comfort she needs no matter how time flies and I watch her age she still needs me she still wants me sometimes she still squeezes me through the night and even if... Continue Reading →
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a love poem…
wrap a bouquet of flowers in a love letter poetry or prose words from the heart with a box of chocolate kisses would be nice and reese’s cups to remind me of how your chocolate hugs my peanut butter a few chocolate drizzled strawberries and a mix cd cause i love it when you make... Continue Reading →
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Make the distinction…
niggas & flies niggas & flies, both I despise one eats shit the other one lies... never confuse a black man with a nigga... cause a nigga will get you with those good intentions and that even better dick making promises like I'm not going anywhere making you think he is in control of the... Continue Reading →
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Love
love love sweet like the honeysuckle of my youth when I imagined knights in shiny armor on horseback switch to ninja's on ducati bikes switch to mr. tall dark & handsome in a big car with a career not a job and a 401k not just cash on hand and when I say benefits I... Continue Reading →
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Dancing with Insanity
For love -- I would tickle the feet of a panther till he purred like a child rubbing the belly of an old woman on the beach in the mist of morning awaiting the dawn of a new era of technological breaking through daunting wooden drawbridges to sand castles built by imaginative dogs learning new... Continue Reading →
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dreaming
some days my world seems like a series of nuances and idiosyncrasies, coping with the resident trouble maker, my imagination, and pondering another breath or a gasp for fresh hope can i float can i float can i float or drown in the flood of inspiration held in by my damn reality -Turtleberry 2007
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Tabitha
My legs burned. I rubbed the rippled indentations on my calves. There was nothing soft or plush about this floor. It was more like a Brillo pad rather than a teddy bear. This wasn’t anything new to me. Too numerous were the times I had rolled around on this floor with Angel, almost rubbed my... Continue Reading →
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untitiled
i raise my glass to the pain of not knowing and gulp to fight the fear i have to ask i clean the mirror in hopes of seeing myself clean when i need to windex my eyes... bleach my mind my soul trapped inside a cell inside this shell worn by my heart battle scarred... Continue Reading →
Inside the Shell 