The School of Life
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In what galaxy does a heart
not learn lessons the hard way?
It’s in the nature of all creatures.
The school of life welcomes its students.
Some will breeze on by and
not learn much of anyt...
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Categories:
accrued, education, journey, life, school,
Form: Free verse
PRAISING ANCHORED INVESTED POETIC TIME
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PRAISING ANCHORED INVESTED POETIC TIME
(Apropos Of My Brilliant Poetry Extended Family)
Sitting there with quiet waves
Of a full wrinkling oceanic mind,
Smooth pensive allegorical...
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Categories:
accrued, allegory, encouraging, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
MISERY pidgin
...Misery :
intro:
afta all di wealth and fame im accrued,
afta all di wild parties im threw,
afta all di promiscuous and gypsy women im chewed,
afta all di aba made friends im drew,
and afta all ...
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Categories:
accrued, addiction, adventure, bereavement, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
WEALTH WISE, HEALTH FOOLISH
...At night, death's dark whisper resounds
Chasing dreams, with bloody sweat unbound
Awakened by fear, his heart does pound
Beholding death's spirit, all around
By day, sleep flees, a rare repriev...
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Categories:
accrued, depression, desire, emotions, pain,
Form: Didactic
Attitude of Gratitude
...Battered and bruised,
By the way I've abused,
This body that i used.
Feeling the effects of my mood,
Directly related to my attitude.
I'm losing altitude,
Calling out to you,
Kno...
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Categories:
accrued, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
The cost of living
...What price must we pay,
To simply be?
The toll for existence,
Incurs a fee.
Each breath we take,
Each step we make,
Extracts a cost,
A price we must pay.
We pay for food, water,
For all ...
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Categories:
accrued, endurance, food, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Final Solution II
...Let murderers subdue the guilt within
let not such burdens weigh upon your heart,
for bound by oath, your troopers are akin
to brothers that share equally in part.
‘Tis fiendish pride that fills ...
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Categories:
accrued, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Chain Wire Fence
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A tall, chain wire fence
surrounds the perimeter
of the power station, casting
its evening shadow over a wide
bank of grass leading down
to the river. Sometimes I sit there
just to listen to...
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Categories:
accrued, art, love, river, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Heart
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My heart is shaped like a love heart
With different compartments inside
The largest compartment being LOVE
Centre stage and always my guide
KINDNESS is another compartment
For of acts of kin...
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Categories:
accrued, life,
Form: Rhyme
No longer
...And no, when I heard your name I did no longer shake with my legs and watched myself if my hair was made right.
If I had the right clothes on, shoes, make up.
Did I say too much? Less? ,,Mhm..was h...
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Categories:
accrued, creation,
Form: Verse
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces
...Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...
Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare l...
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Categories:
accrued, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fields of Blazing Stars
...By your ink on this parchment, my thoughts tattooed
I'm drawn to this bouquet; I am left so madly.
Fields of blazing stars, lying randomly, strewed
Happiest are these thoughts deliberately const...
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Categories:
accrued, flower, happiness, nature, seasons,
Form: Villanelle
Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.
Ah... what luxury to wax poetic
as freedom to trumpet thoughts,
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...
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Categories:
accrued, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Is spending to save putting the cart before the horse
...Maybe we should do a rethink about spending to save,
If we are using all our credit on a roll of the dice,
And instead keep that option on ice,
While we think about how much is too much rice.
I...
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Categories:
accrued, abuse, addiction, age, allusion,
Form: Burlesque
My Resolutions Contribution
..."I don't call them New Year's Resolutions. I prefer the term:
Casual Promises to myself that I am under no legal obligation
to fulfill." ...
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Categories:
accrued, new year,
Form: Rhyme
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