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Tis not just words that make them poetryFor poems are not but words we thrown together
Tormented thoughts confined to metaphor
Nor picket fence alliteration
Dancing on the edge of passing thought
Beware, the creaking gate that bids you enter
Pay heed to silent stones soft whisperings
Tarry...
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Categories:
poetry, truth, writing,
Form: Verse
When Words BurnYour lies are strong like coffee grounds, but I can't grind them up small enough to make them go down smooth
Your presence is becoming more like unexpected coffee stains
Unsightly, unwanted, unbearable, unstable
The heat burns...
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Categories:
writing, conflict, feelings, hurt, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Fight NightThe full Half of me wants to empty this clip of aggression
The empty half of me wants to light a candle that matches the aroma of my favorite snack and genre of movie
Looking through...
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Categories:
writing, anger, conflict, how i
Form: Blank verse
The Tortured PoetShe picked up her pen
There were monsters in her head
Tortured poet's life...
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Categories:
writing, art, life, mental health,
Form: Haiku
S u Rr E a l i T y no B
Categories:
word play, words, writing,
Form: Imagism
Categories:
writing, blessing, education, encouraging, literature,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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Categories:
writing, giggle, poems, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Sound Bites: May 28, 2024Dead Calm
Without friction
there is no motion
Without motion
— creation stops
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
Abeyance
My pen is searching
for its guitar case
a place to sleep
when the writing’s done
To rest in the dark
between flowing moments
of what might be coming...
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Categories:
writing,
Form: Rhyme
Beginning AgainI decided to work smarter
Instead of just working harder
This may seem a bit trite
No need to get uptight
This poem is just my restarter
...
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Categories:
writing, courage, creation, humor, life,
Form: Limerick
Two Poets Meet Collaboration
What do you see when you see trees?
My eyes travel each trunk and branch.
With feathered leaves in blowing breeze
till the chipper comes with a cranch!
Your details shine with luminescence -
I eschew detail for the...
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Categories:
writing, feelings, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Definition of A PoetDefinition of a poet: I think a poet is...? A poet is...? A poet...is!...
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Categories:
writing, inspirational, poetry, poets, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The End Of The Story~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
when courage called truth ·
and the dust of rationality settled ·
each story found its end...
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Categories:
writing,
Form: Haiku
BLANKETY-BLANK VERSEAlas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse
To stab the darkness with an ill-used...
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Categories:
writing, humor, irony, muse, words,
Form: Verse
FacetsNot all those who wander are lost
Maybe they love the path and not the destination.
Not all those who always wonder are kids
Maybe they love to lost in their mind and not in the path of...
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Categories:
writing, how i feel, peace,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger SnapGet in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.
Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at me and welts started to run,
down we hunkered under the...
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Categories:
writing, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
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