If I Carry My Secrets To The Grave
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{"I fall into the river drenched in my own expectancy,
The peddles inside enveloping me as a fairytale destined to be. However I knew life was far from being caressed and revived by fiction once ...
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Categories:
agitates, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Narrow Margin
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Sometimes, in uncertain outcomes, as life agitates,
It can sway either way, maneuvering on the edge,
For a difference rather modest, makes the final call,
When a narrow margin determines a win o...
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Categories:
agitates, life, perspective,
Form: Verse
September 11, 2023 Today Marks 22 Years
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September 11, 2023
Today Marks 22 Years
Written: By Tom Wright
People, some jumping to their death as if to fly,
helpless to escape, a cherry red inferno, in the sky.
Black billowing...
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Categories:
agitates, conflict, forgiveness, how i
Form: Lyric
On Havana's White Shore -
...On Havana's white shore –
With each salt-infused whirl
That agitates its border –
Every sand is a potential pearl....
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Categories:
agitates, beach, endurance, metaphor, success,
Form: Rhyme
Risque Triplets
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Clover superlative lovers, sprung via same stem
Umbrella immunity protects sprites supple
Filter purity lacy leaf shade kindly dapples them
Desiree samples pitc...
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Categories:
agitates, allusion, animal, april, art,
Form: Rhyme
Musings
...MUSINGS
synthesis
of
fearful
intensity
original
instinctive
&
otherworldly
curiosity
agitates
intimacy
&
then effaced
by
the exotic
elaborate
in little
glimpses
particularly
so
...
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Categories:
agitates, poetry,
Form: Other
Fall From Grace
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Our hypnotic stupor, cause of our fall from grace
The flame flickers and our attention oscillates
The ego offers mind endless puzzles to lace
Deluded, rudderless heart then agitates
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
Zigzag Route Leads Nowhere
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Earth life a jigsaw puzzle, soul navigates
Floundering about in vain
Fickle and fleeting is joy, so heart agitates
Measuring loss and gain
We see all around, perfect divine order
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 10:8
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10.8
“For how many lifetimes
have you done hard and painful labor
with body, mind and speech?
It is time to stop”
Ah! This entreaty
It has this ring of compassionate d...
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Gatekeeper
...She holds a set of dangling golden keys,
In front of a massive silvery gate.
Knowing the prize I ask to enter please,
But she shakes her head which denotes my fate.
I take out magical potion to...
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Categories:
agitates, fairy,
Form: Sonnet
A Distant Voice
...Thy voice sounds like violin from distance
Melody of the holy angels
Thy beauty bouncing along the conductor
The airwaves beautified by the rhythm
A glut of neurons awakened by a giggle
How thy ...
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Categories:
agitates, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Easy and Breezy
...Conjuring formulae to attain God
Reflected consciousness narrow thought prods
Accustomed to trials and tribulations
Unable to rest in meditation
What is immediate and intimate
Known not to eg...
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
One In Seven
...Ticks imperceptibly further from tocks
Sally-anne gracefully brushing her locks
Perusing the papers in yesterday's socks
One eye on the news on the old goggle box
Lawns that want mowing, maybe ...
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Categories:
agitates, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Slow and Easy
...Slow understanding
Assimilation
By percolation
Osmotically
Layer by layer
Caterpillar
To butterfly
Let latent heat
Gently transform
The ego
Ignorant
Agitates
Let calm
Within
B...
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Let Go of To Get To
...Heart
Flutters
Agitates
For expansion
Lunging at illusions ephemeral
Eternal not found in the external
Search shifts within
Tranquil calm
Clear light
Dawns
17-October-2020...
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Categories:
agitates, spiritual,
Form: Tetractys
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