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Tainted love is stained love, a dirty jeans love, mucky Tainted love is tinted love, a greyer pink love, edges purple Tainted love is skinny love, skinned and thinned weak |
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TAINTED LOVE by Linda Simoni-Wastila
Filed under Linda Simoni-Wastila
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- Week #1 – Breadfruit
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- Week #6 – Balance of terror
- Week #7 – Broken camera
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- Wk #48 – Tainted love
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by Michelle Elvy
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Wildly creative use of theme, Linda. I love your conceptions of love thrown out here like petals.
really liked the last paragraph, “broth love, fight veneered…”
I loved how you used so many two dollar words in this!
You definitely described “tainted” love.
Creative and original! Really enjoyed reading your definition! Well done! :-)
love this, and there ain’t nothing tainted about that.
Thank you all for reading my poem — I had fun with the language in this one. The reason I love poetry, I guess — no holds barred on those $2 words ;^)
Will get around to reading everyone’s stories soon — the internet back up after a couple of days out. I drove down to NC with my kids for spring break just and arrived minutes before the tornado hit. We’re safe, but things like power got mucked up. Peace…
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