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This poem was inspired by a lovely lady I met when I was young, she managed to survive the Holocaust and...

Thank you for the gift of life

you were a child full of strife

I could have been aborted...

Its shouldn't be hard, in fact its much easier.

To plan horror and darkness you think even lesser...

It is that time of year again,

When the leaves all turn to red.

There’s a crisp feeling in...

It’s a beast that comes to get you

It’s the devil’s oldest ploy

A darkness unrelenting...

Sometimes I think you love me
Sometimes I think you don't
Sometimes you want my touch
...

They,re nasty they,re ugly they,re mean and they,re dead too escape them i often take too my bed. They,re...

What is real in our lives,

and somethings that just might be.

As we learn from new wisdom...

Misogyny ~ for Sylvia Plath

There's a cold dark place
Sylvia Plath has been inside
A...

See through the black

A new era awaits

The fire is short

Ground set ablaze

...

If i got to hear you, the tears i could not hold,

If i had held you,my bonds would never unfold,...

The full moon shone bright,
Its beams passing through a spider web.
The silk shone silver in...

She’s traveled these tracks
for many years now.
She doesn’t know a home.
Only the cold...

There’s an old tire swing,
hanging from an old oak.
The ropes are frayed and worn,
and...

your kiss told me a lie

so what to do now

i have to find out for myself ,

some...

My friend, Debbie, she was so spirited and free willed

Could do nothing but succeed, energy, beauty...

Empty, dark, cold as ice, the entry of the hollow

A place you step your foot in and you're...