Boyfriend Poems

Maxine, back from a weekend with her boyfriend,
smiles like a big cat and says
that she's a conjugated verb.
She's been doing the direct object
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.
the girl waited beneath the golden tree
the golden tree shaped like a vase
a vase of golden leaves
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Me thinks much ink
has been spilt
over the poem;
‘Phenomenal Woman’
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
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She was weeping when we met
Outside a party store
Where the lonely purchase their wine;
Her boyfriend had left her behind
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"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..."


I came home and found a lion in my living room
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A moment of quiet, in this frozen house,
Breathe it in, while you can.
He's coming back at about 4: 05pm,
To punish, an innocent lamb.
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i wanna hold you in my arms, and i never want to let you go,
you were my life, you were my dreams, you were so much to me,
i wanna hold you tight and never let go,
-
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Someone you can talk to
A person you can share with
The one who can care with you
Somebody who will be concern with you
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At the end there were straws
in her glove compartment, I'd split them open
to taste the familiar bitter residue, near the end
I ate all her Percodans, hungry to know
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~ In Between Change ~ [18 Words Poetry]
Ms. Nivedita
UK
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my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty
suitcase because she kept threatening to run away my sister was sick of me
getting the best of everything the bathrobe with the pink stripes instead of
the red the soft middle piece of bread while she got the crust I was sick with
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We chased
yesterday’s news

all over
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To have designs on another
Degrades oneself;
The old Greek was right,
Platonic love is the best.
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My mother died on February 24 2016, when she was traveling on the entrance ramp to northbound I-29 from Mexico City Avenue. She traveled off the roadway and overcorrected, sending herself and her truck down an embankment. Ejected from her vehicle, she was dead on arrival.
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I had just accidentally smashed
my boyfriend Howard in the forehead
with a horseshoe. The blood surged
through his eight year old fingers,
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LAUGHTER & CRIES

The question
crawls around the classroom.
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it's such a special day
today,
the sun shines bright,
the birds chirp and sing high on the summit,
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Here now
I hold you

astonished at
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Today, I thought I'd write a song
About the way your body glistens in the moonlight
But this is not that song
No this is not that song
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Your boy, boy, b-b-boy, b-b-boyfriend
Your boy, boy, b-b-boy, b-b-boyfriend
Your boy, boy, b-b-boy, b-b-boyfriend
Your boy, boy, b-b-boy, b-b-boy
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