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The Pressed Rose(a collaboration with Dilly Dally, great fun, thank you)
Lost as the night wraps its ebony shades
round red lips like the petals on roses unfurled;
in the mist, the soft crimson of beckoning smiles
leave me hopeless to...
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Categories:
allusion, dream,
Form: Blank verse
PassionYour passion ignites your soul
The flames burning tirelessly
But your fire isn't immortal
Deprived and starved of the things you crave....
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Categories:
allusion, cry, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
A letter to my museTo my muse;
This poem you surely must peruse.
Many of these lines, I will lose-
But look around and into my clues
As I look deep into your soul,
Bits of love fill that hole.
For a...
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Categories:
allusion, cute, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 160-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Property improvement Projects and ProsperityDate: June 2051
8:15 am-- Damian scheduled to have
A few improvements and modifications.
Family in The house were alert and
Present. Molly and Holly were in the
Children's room bathing all 6 of them
The five...
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Categories:
allusion, best friend, birth,
Form: Alliteration
HEART BEATSoars beating is my heart
as it flex it's muscle so in part
it's flat Like an Eagle abreast
breath hovering over its nest
Elder Statesman and women sleep depressed
Nonchalantly inadvertently not aware
that they are...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
TEARS GOT NO PAINTears Got No Pain
For Daisy Kirui
Can you hear the call far the yonder?
The still and clear mystery that afternoon? When Daisy took her heart to see you her son? And...And you still ponder?
"It's over, son,...
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Categories:
allusion, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Rainbow's EndI’ve walked
Many a mile
Since every Rainbow’s End
Was just a wish away
Every pot of gold
Has stayed a wish ahead
I’ve walked
Many a mile
Through smoke-filled haze
And alcoholic daze
Melody now gone
From lonesome cities
I took no time
To listen...
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Categories:
12th grade, addiction, allusion,
Form: Free verse
EL NO SABERNOT KNOWING
There are things that we have in mind that sometimes we believe them so much to the point of not listening to other voices that do not support what we believe today. There are...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Blank verse
Categories:
adventure, allusion, beautiful, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
Categories:
adventure, allusion, beautiful, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
look closely
invisible men see through nakedness ~ they do not need x-ray specs
said the wife to her unfaithful husband ~ she was laid bare on her ex
...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Categories:
adventure, allusion,
Form: Light Verse
Filling Up Spaces With WordsDoes anyone have the conception
that I'm disconnected from reality,
so fearful to face more hardships?
All I do is filling up spaces with words,
they fit perfectly to make me feel easy:
it's awful to be judged with...
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Categories:
allusion, bullying, change, culture,
Form: Lyric
THE Drought -Prickly are the waters drought
no more do drops collected
gallons of waters evaporated
once was a lake than a pond
now it's not even a fishing hole
dust rise up we're vapors once vented
...
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Categories:
absence, allegory, allusion, assonance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
One Faithful heart, One Unfaithful HeartHow different we are now
to have one faithful heart
and one unfaithful heart;
where's that bright glow?
How much sadness
we give to each other,
instead of being unfair;
distrust, rage and disloyalty
are dangerous pitfalls...
they can't avoid this tragedy!
Truly, are all...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal, desire, destiny,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Allusion Poems
Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?
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