The Mirror
...I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God was called, nor nature invoked.
Fate took the dr...
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Categories:
absolutism, extended metaphor, growing up,
Form: Free verse
MONEY IDEA
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Money is un Idea...
ideas can be good or bad...
Ideas change, expire
and even die...
The Dollar idea is not eternal
nor absolute...
Absolutism may f...
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Categories:
absolutism, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Original Quotes
...Only fools try to control time.
* Consequentialism should first deal with subjective rather than objective definitions of good and bad.
* The truth should not be silenced because it gives some ...
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Categories:
absolutism, culture, humanity,
Form: Didactic
Absolute Hunch
...Am the string.
Oscillating discretely,
The sways of pattern,
Calling for elation,
To come happen...
Am now a probability.
Never discrete, yet,
A contradictory distinction,
True absolutism,
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Categories:
absolutism, art,
Form: Free verse
pizzas our way
...Brazilians put green peas on their pizzas you know
yuck said my unworldly friend, whose cheeks were aglow
crazy since he is German and they put tuna on their crust
I rolled my eyes at his bigotry,...
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Categories:
absolutism, food,
Form: Rhyme
America, Arise Altogether
...Agitators ambush America
anger attacks, abstruse
acquaintances and adversaries acrid
absolutism acolytes abrading
abrogate acrimony
America, arise altogether
amend, amend...
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Categories:
absolutism, 8th grade, america, anger,
Form: Alliteration
The Time
...You are so quiet,
Your appetite doesn't clash with your sight,
Your wisdom doesn't match your boredom,
It is no longer your freedom.
Your absolutism is the snowball,
Your cross is searching f...
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Categories:
absolutism, character, life, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Appreciating Leeann
...We knew she was special instantly
LeeAnn was darling with a pixie like face.
She chose her words with careful precision
Confidence evident for all to see.
We liked her immensely, she had such gr...
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Categories:
absolutism, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Silver Lining Sought Amidst Coronavirus Covid 19 Onslaught
...Silver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught
Two hundred and forty six plus months
into twenty first century celeb
and anonymous folks alike
gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb
b...
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Categories:
absolutism, 12th grade, april, blessing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Children Learn From Others
...sage slivers of truth
bandied about by children
who learn from parents
absolutism
learned at daddy’s knees
reinforced by mom
school shakes them up
new ideas from others
often changing th...
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Categories:
absolutism, angel, children,
Form: Senryu
To My Love Part 3 Tbc
...Not that I pity myself
While holding a gun on my temple with this gentle discipline,
My identity is clear but my behaviour is doubtful
To the extent of brutish masculinity – defined as stubbornnes...
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Categories:
absolutism, life,
Form: Free verse
Grim Measures For Similar States
...grim measures for similar states
successful, expressed for reliable mobs
of absolutism, a gallery for Maghreb’s
intellectuals with frail aims
infringing mourning words, words of familiarity saved...
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Categories:
absolutism, allegory, allusion, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Netherworld Unearthed Within This Mind
...Psyche soaking wet with devout atheism,
this lifetime skeptic now tenuously
linkedin with Unitarianism
attests, said upbringing proffered,
mine credo, gestalt,
leitmotif, sans abstractionism
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Categories:
absolutism, america, appreciation, environment, fate,
Form: Political Verse
We Have Raised Three Independent Daughters
...We raised three daughters.
Doing our best to let them know that we adored them.
What they did after we released them into the world was up to them.
Most of their choices were good.
Some not so gr...
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Categories:
absolutism, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
I Cooked the Book That Would Not Tap
...I Cooked the Book that Would Not Tap
A Doomsday, a nightmare gone wrong,
My hand shot with pain and didn’t stop,
Bandages hid the wound I wove for kong,
The silence echoed round the wheel fop....
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Categories:
absolutism, analogy, angst, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Quatrain
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