Cut me out tender and sweet.
Dress me up pretty and neat.
Show me off to all your friends.
Oops a tear now we must mend.
Change my look and what i am.
Make me new cause you know you can.
Tape my leg it seems to be lost
Another part hidden is the only cost.
One day pink another day blue.
Make me into someone i never knew.
Yet again i must be perfectly fixed.
Feeling hidden further all jumbled and mixed.
Tear me once i may be all right.
Break me twice more is lost in light.
I'm a paper doll i can never die.
Although what you see is often a lie.
My shell may be all pretty and whole.
What is within the tape is a torn soul.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.