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Hot and Red

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

Hot, red, and bloody beaten I smile while you give me a beatingYou just haven't the slightest ideaOf the intense rage I feel inside. You think that yo..

Mississippi Beggar

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

Mississippi River wash the blood from my handsFor I have taken what is yours.So if I am to repent for the Promised Land,I beg forgiveness for the year..

Do without

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

The eyes of those around me burn my skinWhile I don't walk so proud or so loud.The ocean has carried me to where I've beenAnd I've drifted back onto s..

Letter to a Brother

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

Brother, sweet brother how do you not know Of the indulgence lying down below When many have given their solemn claim For trinkets of the distinctiv..

Prey

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

Bridge to Bridge, these mountains are lined Where the deepest tropics are lying below Where there must hide a tattered black feline Wounded by an ar..

Obsessive Compulsive Anxiety Ridden Mess

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

For my mother

A moment to look at rhyme

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

I am in love with rhymingWith how it is so beguilingAnd I find it sickeningThe attitudes surfacing.Poetry is to be embracedNot modified and disgracedB..

Tootsie Pop

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

For my sweet tootsie pop

For Russell

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

For Russell I should have been a better brother Because to me, you're like no other. How I sobbed to see a suicide note And ache..

A Better Lullaby

A Poem by Kenneth Stephen Goodpaste..

A Better Lullaby Hush little angel, you don't need a mockingbird For Daddy will always sing for you And a diamond ring for you wo..