Jeff's Poetry

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49 poems · all collections

happenstance

November 16, 2025 · Choice

an event, a trigger that shouts into stale air breathing forth life cautious, wary, climbing like vines around a heart of something not yet determined, choices shaping
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crossroad

November 10, 2025 · Choice

nuanced, blurry starry eyes gazing at the other eye of perception and being obedient, a good boy or girl just the way you like me to be, not giving problems, nodding my head, saying yes even when you are so very wrong, wrong exist not in your world when you provide care your justification for every beating when i should have questioned!
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a transaction

October 29, 2025 · Choice

i like to call a fee for living, or how words get scrambled to make a piece look alluring. dirt gets reframed as a unique blemish, a marker for the gifted and thus counts not as a crack
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i had none

September 27, 2025 · Choice

the mind easily convinced makes no decision and a puppet master grins when the movement goes accordingly to his every whim. the heart of a child has not seen the brutality of war, aches with idealism of what could be
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on the fence

September 17, 2025 · Choice

it hurts, to sit on something so very uncomfortable and only an idiot does something like that so says the wise man who is not very wise by my standards
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Resist

September 15, 2025 · Choice

pins and needles down my spine, pines and cones on a bowl. i held the delicate red wine and walked across the room, shattered dreams and mindless riddles wore me down
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Rebel

October 17, 2023 · Choice

Status quo, live and let live does not reside well with me for I much rather burn in hell than be the obedient slave, tied on chains, dressed in costumes because the well wishers want it so,
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Impulsive

October 6, 2023 · Choice

Leap, across oceans even when it would appear that the oceans will have me, I abandon logic, always having to listen to nagging, horrid nudging that has kept me safe, safety is
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