Anemone
...the broken trees roar
an agonized rill wheezing
fervent garden thrills...
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Categories:
agonized, adventure, angel, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
Blue Rose
...I wonder, Little Eddie, hypnotized,
can it be true you felt no pain at all?
Ten years of age, a figure formed too small,
and that poor Roadster, a gift you so prized…
How could your brother hav...
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Categories:
agonized, abuse, boy, brother, children,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Grief Lives Within Silence
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A surrealistic silence hangs sluggishly in the air,
as I sit upon your violet clawfoot recliner,
sorting fuchsia dresses into melancholic piles.
An opal ring glistens while the sun drapes ov...
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Categories:
agonized, dark, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
My earlier poem
...The poem before this (was not a easy write!) Yet in it I was
Being as genral as I cuuld..Covering as many realitys
As i could as I agonized over word placement.' Wishing
Not to offend any ' apart ...
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Categories:
agonized, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
...I thought this noxious pain would abandon my agonized heart after a while
I thought if I could write better it would ease on me
Maybe my tacks were wrong,
I couldn't find my way to exist, still a...
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Categories:
agonized, anxiety, caregiving, childhood, cry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Evaporating Seasons
...Stardust blankets lacrimosa skies,
a requiem of times gone by.
The taste of late summer nights still lingers on bittersweet lips,
yet somehow, now, it’s become stale—like blue cheese and old pickl...
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Categories:
agonized, deep, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
No More In Chain
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The naïve life possessed by the power of desire,
turns into an inanimate object, utterly inert.
The buoyant being, unsuspecting and unblemished,
if captured by the vicious clutch of cunnin...
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Categories:
agonized, abuse, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Stretched in Two
...Sometimes you get stretched in two
And, though you do what you must do,
You know there might be someone who
You’ve made a bit depressed.
Your reasons might be clear to you
But possible to misc...
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Categories:
agonized, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Indomitable Instinct
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The exigent mountain
in the tough terrain
of upheaved life,
crumbling,
needs to be climbed
as the solemn summit
alluringly calls.
I follow
the undefined trail
in surging ...
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Categories:
agonized, analogy, journey, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Empaths Rest
...Empath's agonized days of tears,
when children die and humanity suffers,
their hearts heave and grieve.
The empaths rest as angels hover,
In the starry presence of God.
A balm for their lament,
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Categories:
agonized, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Old Wishes
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Old wishes drift on tainted strands
gathering mist, out to the sky--
a balmy tree where our restful arms entwine
that soon... stars ebb and glimmer far
like kisses fierce, then gently tossed
i...
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Categories:
agonized, dream, seasons,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Couplets Contest Announcement
...Wonder what type of poems will be best
In my new couplet poems only contest
Will you wow me with colorful vocabulary
Will your poem be monotone, dreary, merry
I agonized over who wins a trop...
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Categories:
agonized, appreciation, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Couplet
Nature of Autumn
...few colors, but green
a Fall stand out
spotty, the Southern reds
beautifully shaped
teeny, not trite
the fallen
up North, pleased
by ample leaves
the tumbler of hues
crimson and gold...
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Categories:
agonized, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Genocide Blues
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To his Hungarian Jewish village, Moses returned
Atrocities were dismissed, his warnings spurned
He described Jews buried in ditches, gave details to persuade:
Agonized children, naked corpses, b...
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Categories:
agonized, crazy, evil, holocaust, introspection,
Form: Lyric
Haunted House
...God damned the Demons of Hell to Hell
God damned the Demons to Hell
Let us depart, Beloved
,Where their morbid howls don't swell,
In our ears, in our minds,
Coiling weaving diabolic binds.
Let ...
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Categories:
agonized, anxiety, fear, gothic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
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