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scar struck AGAINDamn these feelings of stress, interlacing impulsive dreams of disgrace
Can it all be over soon? Maybe, the hopes drowned in the mere dust of time
Oh, long lost lamb, I am so in need of...
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Categories:
deep, desire, grief,
Form: Lyric
YeahYeah
I am still here
Stuck
Cuffed
In place
By golden shackles
I wallow
In mud
And eat dust
Suffer
The hollow men
Do it
For a dream
Or is it
All just a dream
Days just meld
Welded together
Time fly’s
Time slows
The mud
The dust
How I hate
The hollow men
...
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Categories:
desire, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the daystirred from stillness by an urge,
awareness could not discern ~
ego conveniently labelled,
desire as spontaneity...
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Categories:
desire, introspection, silence,
Form: Free verse
Garnished MartiniClinging rhythms from musical styles
ignites my desire.
Can you dim the red lights? I crave a
sense of cashmere danger,
It smells of peace and warmth, pleasure and vibrations, placing me in a butterfly zone.
Yet I...
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Categories:
desire, beautiful, best friend, black
Form: Free verse
Making The hardest ChoiceSome girls can't sleep, they fight
over me with insanity
it's the insomnia that
won't let dream; it has taken away
all the happiness and serenity!
Everywhere I go there's a good possibility
that I attract the wrong one and marry...
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Categories:
anxiety, beautiful, desire, fear,
Form: Lyric
ReflectionsEyes reflect your sorrows deep within
Like a window peering into your essence
You’re merely a victim
But they don't see your tears...
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Categories:
confusion, cry, deep, desire,
Form: Quatrain
Cream Corn ChowderDespicable
How it drips down the side
Bubbling up from the innards of the pot
I can hear the sizzling
The smell of the butter drenched corn
I throw in a bit of salt and pepper
To spice up...
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Categories:
desire, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Travel OnI travelled like the sun in the sky
With route unknown and path unsaid
Lone to shine like gold in the day
Unremembered, assumed to be okay.
As I search and search for the end to...
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Categories:
desire,
Form: Rhyme
Have faithThis is a story of two lovers,
A boy and a girl, their bond like no other.
Their love was pure, their passion strong,
But fate had a different plan all along.
Their love blossomed like a spring flower,
Hearts...
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Categories:
desire, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Far Away
FAR AWAY FROM HOME
Far away from home
wandering in the dark nights
___lonely woods
lost in the world of love
the romantic scenes
playing, tickling your nipples...
(massage in your breasts)
a kiss for the moon
and a sin for the stars
swallowing...
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Categories:
cute love, deep, desire,
Form: Blank verse
Literary StandstillAm I meant to be found?
Do not force it
let it come.
Let it come,
Like you used to.
Filing away the words,
overproduced.
Distraction is no bad thing, I tell myself.
Coincidence, Nothing more?
Me and...
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Categories:
angst, care, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
Your Love Is Like A Light
(Inspired by Glenn Hughes Song " Your Love Is Like A Fire")
Your love is like a light
It radiates passion for me.
My eyes search for you
My heart bleeds the truth
I want your soul illumine me
Enter...
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Categories:
analogy, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
How I FeelHe ceased from living in hell
That unholy prince of hell
He takes his hostile abode everywhere
His alluring angst's felt more here
The world now knows no bounds
Unhealthy redundant show of pow'r 'n will
Echoes of sheer messed up...
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Categories:
analogy, desire, fate, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Fated To TryLooking at you
My heart remembers…
Mind chiming in.
Two times a sinner
Now, three times a fool…
Enticing smile… once again
What am I going to do.
___*___
1st time, arguments
2nd time, a cheat
Why’s my heart drinkin’ you in
Skippin’ still a...
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Categories:
conflict, crush, desire, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Ledger of Love: PART I
Ledger of Love
In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now a thin whisp, a ghostly jest.
Her gaze averts from her...
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Categories:
confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Desire Poems
Definition | What is Desire in Poetry?
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