Category: Poetry
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DROWNING Sometimes I miss you in ripples That come and go, slowly And at a pace My heart can bear But today, I am drowning Can’t even tread These waves of despair My grief is overwhelming Expanding and expounding Laying open, the unspoken Anguished misery Inside Simona A. Brinson Photo by Nick Russill on Unsplash…
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REPLY-ALL Please disregard the prior email Unless you know it to be true We all know Sharon is shallow And doesn’t have a clue Her managerial skills are lacking And her people skills are few I may lose my job today But I will never rue My accidental Reply-All Because every word is true Simona…
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YESTERDAY’S MISFORTUNE COOKIE Yesterday, I had a fortune cookie And the words I read Got it wrong Cause this is what it said: “Behind this fortune Is the love of your life” So, I looked behind the fortune And my heart swelled with strife Because in my line of sight There was only you My…
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the venditte effect You would be so beautiful If you weren’t so bitter What happened in life That caused you to wither? And your light inside To slowly dim? What happened to make Your outlook so grim? When did you lose sight Of who you are? My Sista-Queen You are a star That fell from…
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IN HARMONY There is no place In time or space Where you can reside And our souls not collide In harmony Charmingly Seeking the other Whether by cover Of darkness or by light of day We will always find a way To connect While our souls recollect A past the flesh has forgotten And we…
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I remember when the sun failed to shine and flowers didn’t grow When stars fell from the sky and the winds ceased to blow When I stood staid and motionless and my heart wept and moaned For love had lost her shimmer and her shine had turned to stone But then one starless night I…
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MANY SPLENDORED Love is a many splendored thing It can walk on water And it can take wing It can sprout flowers And move mountains And flow with passion From concrete fountains It can interrupt space and time It is pleasure It is divine It can make a grown man weep As he watches his…
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ONE Lying with my head on his chest I am at peace I am at rest When two become one Listening to the beat of his heart Where do I end And where does he start When two become one When he moves, I move Lovers in sync Lovers in groove When two become one…
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A REMEMBERING On a bench I sat with you And watched The world go by We felt the breeze From the trees Breathed in The salty gulf air And as the waves Caressed the shore Time stood still That day On Cedar Key Simona A. Brinson Photo by Aidan Formigoni on Unsplash © Simona A.…
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FIRST DATE The man that sits beside me Is he who I wish him to be? I wonder, Who really is he? When I look into his eyes Who do I see? A broken man A dapper-dan A lonesome fool A devilish tool A wretch or a louse A man or a mouse A winner,…
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