Like shiny, white pearls,
Ensconced in firm, pink pillows;
She always smiles
To show off her dentures.
Poetry – haikus, free verse
K. Pinella’s poems
A Family Affair
Started as Daddy,
Now being like a mummy;
It’s all under wraps.
Is he playing dead,
Or resting from surgery?
Family secret.
Plucked
He plucked out her eyeballs.
She was too sleepy to see the guy with the spoon.
He mused he would give her the moon,
Do something funny, just like a looney ‘toon,
Now he feels like a goon.
Because of her scream,
He can’t be fulfilling her dream
As he realized she was being figurative
When she said, “Pluck my eyeballs,
For I find you unattractive.”
Torn
Speaks like the devil
Cold, razor-sharp cutting words,
Tears you to pieces.
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Worn
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Like shoes with no soles
From walking for miles and miles
Home at last, but worn.
Keeping Up with My Jones
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Feeling purposeless,
Just finished reading a book,
Must find another.
Bonus
I have an extra ligament,
An extra pair of eyes,
Even an extra ear.
Secretly created in a basement,
I woke up on a bed of ice.
I had no choice to be here.
It took me a moment,
But I came to realize
That I might be something to fear.
Fair Weather Friend
Here when there’s a party to host,
Though gone when needed the most.
Just another friendly ghost.
Total Eclipse
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Unite all humanity,
See through the inanity
Of division and inequality.
Have no lessons been learned
From past acts of people burned?
Blood and tears seem all that’s been earned.
Classicism,
Racism,
Other types of separatism.
All such negativity
Can only create a proclivity
To increase destructivity.
Clearly, the wrong ways;
Let’s stop the craze,
Time to start a new phase.
Speak respectfully,
Have empathy,
Achieve unity . . . and the darkness will lift.
Borne of Folly
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Sudden fury;
No amount of apology
Accepted by this sole jury.
Karina Pinella 
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