MeToo by Top Critiquers Poems

there is the unseen affecting thinking great and small
things aren't as they appear are you aware?

little honesty twirling the energy
I am peering in to see what I see
I ask permission to gaze

seeking unity in the eternal fire
eyes of dread speak of Freedom
I open my doors a sanctuary to like minds

the rainbow flourishes in the dark
Zion is alive and well, awake and aware

Dr. Teeth good morning

expel the myths and look inwards
diadem of faith speak the language of smoke,
on the winds talk
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I must have been 12 or 13
Mom was acting in a play
I helped her learn her lines
got to hang out with the cast
and I felt like the coolest kid ever
sitting on a bar stool.
Of course he was drunk,
this hilarious man I’d seen on stage
celebrating a performance well done, I guess.
My memory of the room is fuzzy
though I’ve been there often since
I only recall, “do you have pink, underdeveloped nipples?”

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And I don’t know what happened next
nothing dramatic, nothing physical
he...

Have I shown you my new wife?
Look through the window there,
you’ll see her dig the flowerbeds.
Two years my last’s been gone,
fled to another man’s bed,
and leaving me with kids to raise,
though he’s decided she’s a bet
worth taking more than me.
Don’t blame the lad. Won’t take no shit,
just like my dad never did.
She’s mopping now; her brow, that is.
I’ll bet you’re wondering just why
a pretty thing like that would bet on me.
But it’s quite simple, so you’ll see.
She didn’t have much cloth,
and so I thought, why let...

Feeling light and debonair
he threw all caution to the air
and strode across the ballroom floor
to ask again to dance some more
and she said “spontaneity
frivolity and gaiety
are only fine when you’re mature -
your body-language makes me sure
your youtube moves are just a hack…”;
refusing him she turned her back
which he accepted gracefully
was now the way things have to be
for in these days of hash-me-too
one treads on eggshells with the view
that asking for a hand in dance
is fraught with complications, chance ...