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They Speak and Act an Oxymoron
The politicians speak and act out in pure oxymoron With warm cruelty and in a very nice and seemingly gentle sinister pretentious intentions. Pure bare cold sweetly favoured and spicy nothings.....nothingnesses, They promise you a great and propserous year. But then they do absolutely nothing to improve your life in the slightest. There is such a cold malignant mliciousness in...

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Categories: act as, 12th grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Minor Act of Weather
Now and then, quietly without notice, Time adjusts its spectacles— Peers through a fogged pane of recall Where particulars, once urgent, dissolve. If now and then you find rain in your heart, be assured it is scheduled— a punctual drizzle of consequence, not passion, but the persistence of memory in its bureaucratic overcoat. It’s all because of you, the file states plainly: signed in duplicate, sealed...

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Categories: act as, introspection, memory, old, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Teaser-act
Teaser-act — LC What’s alive, dead, and witnessing? Me—listening. It’s the teaser-act. A black cat next to a fat fu** Skip under a ladder cause I know the origin of clatter. A four leaf—fig leaf Screw a few, hide the grief Streamline my hairline And unstuck my head fu** I light when the smoke is thick when the veil is dense and the clock don’t...

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Categories: act as, cat, god, time,
Form: Blank verse
Playful Scene
Act one had just begun on the day we met how was I to know the die was cast and the stage was set Act two what was I to do when you stole my soul who'd have guessed the part was mine and I would play a leading role Act three now you're with me I put my heart into all I do should...

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Categories: act as, fun, romance, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Act of love
Act of love People judge when words are utter, And love when silence remains. Time flows like the river itself, But when the subject is love, There is no space that can contain it. In this brief life, All a human can fully perform, Is the act of love. ...

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Categories: act as, life, love,
Form: Free verse



The Flood Gates Opened
Today the flood gates opened A strong tide rushed down, coming down Everything was just swept away No one left, no one around It became clear an act of God See what happens in the Lord's mighty wrath? He struck down with lightning and with thunder We prayed that all things would again last ...

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Categories: act as, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member balancing act
he was hanging from the charcoal rafters doing push-ups thinking cap dangling loosely by his side like a detached trouser stripe time for emotions and mindful assonance for when reason fails feelings surpass the limbo of a lost soul yet to be found ...

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Categories: act as, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We are witnesses to the final act of a mad and incendiary project
We are witnesses to the final act of a mad and incendiary project, an experiment of a world bound by invisible and shining wires, the reckless belief that we can always be connected, always alight, that electric power, like a river of light, can flow unceasingly for eight billion souls dreaming under the same dark sky. I imagine how each...

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Categories: act as, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Suffocating Act of Living
Breath becomes a fight, World's weight presses on the chest, Longing to break free. ©bfa051725 ...

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Categories: act as, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 10 Act of Contrition
O MY (ETERNAL) GOD I am heartily sorry for having offended You And I detest all my sins Because of Your just punishments But most of all because they offend You, my (Eternal) God Who are all good And deserving of all my love I firmly resolved with the help of Your grace To sin no more And to avoid the near occasions of...

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Categories: act as, christian, community, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 9 Act of Love
O MY (ETERNAL) GOD I love You above all things With my whole heart and soul Because You are all good and worthy of my love I love my neighbor as myself For the love of You I forgive all who have injured me And ask pardon of all whom I have injured Amen Poetry Form: Free Verse Date Written: May 18, 2025 Time Written: 9:28pm ...

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Categories: act as, christian, community, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 8 Act of Hope
O MY (ETERNAL) GOD Relying on your mighty power And infinite mercy And promises I hope to obtain pardon of my sins The help of Your grace And life everlasting Through the merits of (Father) Christ My (Divine) Lord And Redeemer ...

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Categories: act as, christian, community, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 7 Act of Faith
O MY (ETERNAL) GOD I firmly believed that You are one (Eternal) God In three Divine Persons (Eternal) Father (Eternal) Son And (Eternal) Holy Spirit I believe that Your Divine (Eternal) Son became man And died for our sins And that He will come to judge the living and the dead I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches Because...

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Categories: act as, christian, community, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Act Life For Joy
Laugh, jump, jump again! Fake it until you make it, Help keep your soul up....

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Categories: act as, happiness, life, philosophy,
Form: Senryu
can't act
the first crush after a breakup is hard. I keep seeing images of you in him and I'm scared my past is repeating. I probably won't act on it. It is nice to be out of my pit though. my pit of loneliness, because now I have a reason to wake up. I have a reason to put on...

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Categories: act as, moving on,
Form: Free verse

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