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  1. Candles

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ suicide prevention Posted by author(s) CANDLES I light a candle on my sill today In the name of a friend passed away My life a little darker now My knees bend, my ...

    - 2010/03/14 - 8:28pm - 2 comments

  2. bladesong

    Dorothy Colleen Younger Audience (g/y) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Poetry Posted by author(s) BLADESONG Can you hear the blade singing Its sweet song drowning out my fear It sings of our reunion A marriage of edge and skin It promises gentle surr ...

    - 2010/03/14 - 8:27pm - 3 comments

  3. Flinch

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poetry Posted by author(s) FLINCH Be careful how you approach me Sorry if I flinch You see, sometimes When a car backfires Or I receive an unexpected touch Even fr ...

    - 2010/03/14 - 8:30pm - 1 comment

  4. The lost ones

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poetry Posted by author(s) THE LOST ONES The lost ones walk Shadows in the background See them out of the corner of your eye See them at school, church Around the ...

    - 2010/03/14 - 9:01pm - 1 comment

  5. Wheelchair

    WHEELCHAIR Quietly it sits in a corner, no movement can it make But when you sit, go outside, the world begins to shake When you come near, some people, they would balk As if they had seen some fright, like Carroll’s jabawac If they knew you, as all who d ...

    - 2010/03/14 - 9:08pm - 3 comments

  6. Contact

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poem Posted by author(s) Contact Her gait unsteady Eyes that see poorly She is vulnerable As a child But with an adult body She takes my hand Hers are scarred Brok ...

    - 2010/03/15 - 7:42am - 1 comment

  7. Rings

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) RINGS 2 wedding bands sit side by side On my dresser table Last sad reminders of our vows together Yours broke in two long ago A prophecy of ou ...

    - 2010/03/19 - 10:57pm - 1 comment

  8. Fractured

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poetry Posted by author(s) Fractured After the BAD THING Hammer blow to my soul Shattered into a thousand pieces Each piece a memory An identity Sweep the pieces i ...

    - 2010/03/23 - 7:24pm

  9. Rituals

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) RITUALS   Make the bed from the top left corner Each side tucked in the same Check it again just to be sure Just to be safe Just to be safe Alw ...

    - 2010/03/23 - 7:24pm - 1 comment

  10. Look At Me Now

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) LOOK AT ME NOW   LOOK AT ME NOW SO WISE SO SURE GIVE FREE ADVICE RIGHTOUS AND PURE LOOK AT ME NOW A CLOWN IN MY PLACE TELL A BAD JOKE OR FALL O ...

    - 2010/03/23 - 7:24pm - 1 comment

  11. Why Daddy, Why?

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Poetry Posted by author(s) WHY DADDY WHY What made you fear So you couldn’t be here Why daddy why daddy why Brings tears to my face ‘cause there’s empty space Why daddy why daddy w ...

    - 2010/03/31 - 9:37pm - 1 comment

  12. Winter Blues

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Poetry Posted by author(s) WINTER BLUES The sky is ash The trees are bare The silence stark No life anywhere The wind is cold My heart breaks When darkness comes More than I can ta ...

    - 2010/04/02 - 2:19pm

  13. Garden of Love/Scorched Earth

    Dorothy Colleen Mature Subjects (pg15) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poetry Posted by author(s) GARDEN OF LOVE/ SCORCHED EARTH I pass by a garden of love Once planted and tended by a pair of friends Now reduced to a tinder Bare and ...

    - 2010/04/13 - 12:39am - 1 comment

  14. Strip Club

    Dorothy Colleen Mature Subjects (pg15) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) STRIP CLUB The room is dark The music loud The audience is tense A woman appears Takes small steps On high heels I look at her face Eyes are e ...

    - 2010/04/21 - 1:20pm - 2 comments

  15. Granny's Song

    GRANNY’S SONG When I was a young girl, my granny held me on her knee She used to tell me stories about our great country Stories about the riggin’ men and the cowboys true About the winters so cold, turn your fingers blue She taught me right from wrong, t ...

    - 2010/04/23 - 12:07pm - 2 comments

  16. Storms: An Angry Night

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Poetry Posted by author(s) Storms: an angry night As I lay in my bed tonight Storms outside matches my inner fight Visions of spiders weaving the web of fate Of witches on the moor ...

    - 2010/05/16 - 12:27am - 2 comments

  17. Flashback (warning, strong content)

    Dorothy Colleen Mature Subjects (pg15) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Warning Poetry strong content Posted by author(s) FLASHBACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN I HAVE CLOSED MY EYES SUDDENLY IT HAPPENS I AM 7 AGAIN I AM IN HIS OFF ...

    - 2010/05/18 - 2:52pm - 2 comments

  18. Start the Rain

    Dorothy Colleen General Audience (pg) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender Mature / Thirty+ Poetry a hymn Posted by author(s) START THE RAIN Lord, as I walk ‘cross a dry and thirsty place And I don’t know when water last touched my face Start the rain, st ...

    - 2010/05/29 - 10:31pm - 2 comments

  19. Missing

    MISSING I leave behind the usual clutter Of unfinished business, Regrets, and roads not taken in life I also leave my heart poured out on paper Undiscovered glimpses of my life To be enjoyed by any who find them good Or perhaps to be ridiculed, As being t ...

    - 2019/09/10 - 12:24am - 6 comments

  20. Bleeding

    Dorothy Colleen CAUTION: Rape / Sexual Assault Mature Subjects (pg15) Verse, Poetry, Lyric Non-Transgender College / Twenties CAUTION Dorothy's Poetry Posted by author(s) Bleeding Author’s note. This is a poem that popped into my head today. Its gonn ...

    - 2015/06/24 - 2:24pm - 8 comments

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