General Poetry posted June 3, 2019

Rachelle Allen

My life is filled with the two most delightful commodities on the planet: music and children. I have seventy-three students, ages five to seventy-five, whose houses I visit each week for voice, flute, and/or piano lessons. And before this wonderful c - more...

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Fifty Shades of Jealousy

by Rachelle Allen

One Word: Jealousy Contest Winner

Its color is described as green
but from my perspective I have seen
its damages and they have been
the fieriest of red-orange flames,
stoked by mind games,
then scalded by ever-fervent claims and blames
of betrayal and devastation,
pre-meditation, calculation,
resulting in relationship mutilation.
The final color for participation
is a miasmic blue.

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