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Emery Feine May 17
You make me into something I’m not
You spread lies and misjudge me
I want to be angry
I know I deserve to be

You tell me the same thing
You try to change my mind
But I know what I want
And I know you’re not kind

And I know you’re reading this, Mia
And you know this isn’t about you
This isn’t about anyone in particular
But you should be angry too
if we hold onto hope, we’ll have our happy ending
Damocles May 14
Like a whale moaning with an open maw
I can hear it bounce off the walls—
The slight of your meandering voice
Sounds like shrill shrieks annoying glass
Fracturing thought.

So you dress like a yenta,
You sip on your tea,
Only to spill from the pitcher
In your dealings with me.

Gather like little leeches.
Tiny little parasites,
Sharing their intellect
A hive mine scuttlebutt
But truth eludes like a saline
Filled with antibiotics that cure them
Flushing from the shores of reality
Back in their rumor mill.

Like a whale moaning with an open maw
And I have the spear.
Webster Word of the Day Challenge:
Word: Scuttlebutt
Date: 5/14/2025
Meaning: rumor, gossip
Well look who's
decided to
SHOW THEIR FACE!!!,
It is such a SUPRISE,
yet still a DISGRACE,
you are the
TALK OF THE TOWN, and
you VANISHED
without a TRANCE,
your BUSINESS is OUT THERE,
and ALL OVER THE PLACE,
so, come out of HIDING and
of the WORLD, JUST FACE,
the RUMORS are SPREADING,
like WILDFIRE, you SEE,
the GAWKS and the STARES,
I AM SO GLAD IT'S NOT ME,
the things that they are saying,
you just would not believe,
from the SQUEALER, and
the BLABBERMOUTH,
you have been DECEIVED,
BEWARE of the TATTLERS!!!,
JUST WATCH WHAT YOU SAY,
Your BUSINESS WILL BE OUT THERE,
VERY SOON AND TODAY!!,
IF ONLY YOU SAY
THE RIGHT THINGS,
TO THE ONES
WITH ITCHING EARS,
then you won't be hit with,
EMBARRASSMENT and FEAR,
If you want to SHUTDOWN
the NOSEY and UNKNOWN,
Tell them to
MIND THEIR BUSINESS,
and find BUSINESS of their OWN!!!
Why you all up in my KOOL-AID??? and
DON'T KNOW THE FLAVOR!!
Get up out of my BUSINESS, is
A JUICY GOSSIPERS MEAL SAVOR!!!


B.R.
Date: 4/5/2025
Yes, I'm back with another one!! Another one to add to my series!! (Check out my previous one's, if you so choose)
Archer Feb 24
I’ll discuss
The disgust I feel
When I see
Your ugly mug
Hannah Dec 2024
I can’t help but shake my head
At a man who deems me dead

A lie spread throughout
That even I struggle to not believe

Tendrils engulf my brain
Sinking me down to an abyss

Where lies turned over
Look like my own skin
Carlo C Gomez Nov 2024
What the birds overheard

From death to passwords

Migrated to tract housing

Became postage on a slow moving envelope

Somehow ended up as a flag on the moon
Emery Feine Oct 2024
You have trespassed on my soil, manned
You have stolen my nation and my land
Killed all the songbirds, the larks

You have eradicated any sense of glee
But everything you have taken from me
Around it, you will find claw marks

There's tears on the floor
And bullet holes in the door
And blood and dirt under my nails

You've made me flee from my own home
The place I live in and roam
And yet you still don't know what that entails.
this is my 120th poem, written on 8/17/24
Emery Feine Oct 2024
I've paid the price, I've sacrificed
Everything to know I'm fighting for the wrong side
You ignited a spark with your deceitful tricks
And I'm left alone with a flaming phoenix
I thought she was hunting me, I'd seen the signs
The glass breaking, and the crowd didn't see
I've been on the wrong side of the lines
Those warnings were coming from me
I feel betrayed, but I stayed, I felt pity for you
Didn't mean to make this start, oh, what could I do?
Pure cranes that once flew in my dreams
Their wings are blooded from you
I have not spent months of recovering
To be treated this way
No more children I'll be mothering
No longer will I stay
I'm disappointed in all people
For you being so deceitful
For all your misleading lies
And I still have to look into your eyes
I'm just surprised that you could be
So confident in the ability to mislead me
The little spark you've created
It has now turned into a flaming lion
If your lies, you'll continue to tell
It'll burn your soul down, and truth as well.
this is my 114th poem, written on 7/28/24
Like any coin,
a story always has two sides,
and every rumor
carries a seed of truth.
Ash Nov 2023
what figment of me
lives in your whispers?
what shadow dances
on your crumbling walls?
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