Category:Poem

words by barbara doduk 1. twilight night of life born in love divorced hate family Twizzler stick chewed raw green blue blooming mistrust infidelity lusty neighbour married label more questionable likeable friends flowering fake fun and children playing swing set disasters and wagon running over little fingers nails popping bloodied scenes of laughter horror rusty …
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words by barbara doduk 5. and blushing girls smiling over the waste baskets clinging to the record spinning hanging off the tail of the rat they called mine or was it his or theirs or no ones in the end and does it even really matter to me any more and caressing sleeves little pathetic …
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words by barbara doduk 4. and in a blizzard swirl of lights like a hurricane blowing around the sticky room looking into the idiot grins with eyes wide open pupils dilated like big rim filled coffee mugs steaming and spinning quick then slow the music garbled belched a familiar melody my mind wrapped around like …
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words by barbara doduk 2. and the empty years shifted gears through the wasted youth of stuffed bunnies and losing teeth roller-skating accidental wipe-out fearful mother in her other life green carpet grassed the TV days baby-sitter blinked its big blue eye over the livingroom hangout and more recluse leaving behind the windows open shut …
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It’s times like this When it’s so hard It’s so large It’s big enough to miss And we give out We laugh about All the misery All the childhood memories We hold Onto the dream We’re cold Lost in the stream It’s times like this When it’s hidden It’s so small It’s small enough to …
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The dream My nightmare The life left behind Splintered memory of mine Suffer me more The lavish divine Empty the wastebasket Porridge syndrome Questionable sanity Languished in tranquil fallacy Hoping the answer comes clear Mourning the morning after Caressing the fantasy clean Morbid body language Can’t see the scene Pictured images of the future Flashing …
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Here this moment collapses around meThe world echoes some familiar edgy tuneSome echo of what was youTell me how do you sleep Knowing you’ve left me here to bleed – alone How could the morning come?Over all those asking questionsLeft loaded and primedLeft me without a dimeWondering what was that, that came over meTell me …
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You hold outYour hand to meLike some funeral pierDoling me outKeeping the flamesAway from your fireMaybe it’s laughableMe thinking this wasAnything possibleSo stop your silenceCalm your highbredYou can’t stopThe thought trafficJamming in my head You call me outYou fondle the windLike some restless childThe good doll kindSmiling for the cameraGrinning from the painMaybe it’s passableMe …
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I came along When things went wrong Never knew The answer to The greater question within, For all this sin Can I be forgiven? But I hold on… I cave in… I gave out. All this wishing Wishful thinking I saw the ocean break Carry all those dream away On her waves – what can …
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