The Power of Suggestion
...You begin with a suggestion,
that you place in your own mind willingly alone,
then redundantly play that suggestion,
willingly in your own mind again and again,
to the point where it feels like ...
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Categories:
abbreviating, mental illness, self, mental
Form: Rhyme
Sunshine
...For certain my gut feeling was telling me stories, abbreviating decrees filling my soul with sunshine
My heart was a rock but now the tender care is specified freely from your heart, feeling m...
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Categories:
abbreviating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Edge
...Those eyes trapped between thick lines of kohl, frigidly stare
But yet glued to the screen.
Those eyes tire with the glare
But are possessed by a power unseen.
A hundred emoticons fast ...
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Categories:
abbreviating, courage, dream, longing, love,
Form: Ballad
Hands of Time
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Hands of Time
Written: by Tom Wright
1/25/2018
Time is a commodity which we all possess,
But each is assigned contrasting amounts.
A commodity that man cannot suppress,
It’s what we...
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Categories:
abbreviating, time,
Form: Lyric
Be Ye Ready
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As a clock's hands are advancing forward,
By cubits time is abbreviating our stay.
As incoming tides are rushing shore-ward,
We busy ourselves doing things our way.
But God made no pr...
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Categories:
abbreviating, bible,
Form: Lyric
Text Speak
...Text Speak--A newly developing dialect whereby the speaker can convey a lengthy thought by abbreviating phonetically or through the use of substitutive characters.
Any attempt to speak it out lou...
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Categories:
abbreviating, computer-internet, education, funny, on
Form: Free verse
Brian Strand
...That English man with an English tongue
Abbreviating the world into song
Nothing he wrote was ever long
And yet to every piece the sense clung
Making English days and place
As close as home to u...
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Categories:
abbreviating, dedication, friendship
Form: Verse
The Twilight
...You start abbreviating the pretention,
caring for the end of a perennial revenge –
of slain truth, finding depth in arguments
which will spawn more violence.
Come my friend, come. Sit with me.
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Categories:
abbreviating, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Wild With Mushrooms
...spiders slick so
slippery master the
sorts of sane. me; this
tree draped over me,
i can taste vulgarity
like dust cracking the
air. move back, away,
all touch is a tickle-
i can't manifest w...
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Categories:
abbreviating, allegory, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse