Nightingale’s Lamp
...Demanding schedule,
Shadows lengthen in the quiet hours.
Everyone pushing pens, crumpled papers in bins,
Mistakes made, restarts with no end.
Demands unmet, demands that are too much,
Yet the he...
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Categories:
allocate, culture,
Form: Free verse
February 14th
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In a world of festivities, we prioritize the frivolous,
Elevating Valentine's Day, a celebration quite dubious.
February 14th, a day assigned to love's display,
Yet, I refute this notion, for ...
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Categories:
allocate, africa, age, culture, cute
Form: Couplet
glowing heart
...not merely willing but rather eager
to allocate time to hold hands
ego comprehends this not
but heart understands
alive in each moment
awareness of Self at rest
seeing all forms as God’s l...
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Categories:
allocate, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
CARPE DIEM
...Seize the day - for it is yours
To make the most and live.
Open your mind and its doors...
You get what you give.
Regardless of your situation
And its circumstances...
Unemployed or occupation?...
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Categories:
allocate, appreciation, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Labour Day
...Written 28 April 2024
“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert
Labour Day
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Categories:
allocate, appreciation, inspirational, jobs, rights,
Form: Rhyme
stars
...Take a knife to the strings that attach me
Pull out the bridge pins, strum me with drachmae
Maybe then I'd have some worth for you to allocate
Maybe your role in the end was the devil's ad...
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Categories:
allocate, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Lucubrations Fuels Ebullience
...Lucubrations fuels ebullience
Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
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Categories:
allocate, 12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Grateful
...thanks to whomever it may concern
message to the universe
affirmation to myself
it has been good day
nothing less and
quite a bit more
depression is lurking
teasing mocking trying to infilt...
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Categories:
allocate, character,
Form: Free verse
Talking Turkey
...Earth glows in the dark like a bauble
Though sometimes its orbit will wobble
In Glasgow they came
To allocate blame
Knowing Scotch can make eagles gobble!...
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Categories:
allocate, humor,
Form: Limerick
Black Labels
...she reaches behind the smokescreen
of her sunken eyed curtain veils
films of tears void of translucence
stoke reminiscent ashes that trace
another blinding thick-skinned defeat
hidden ...
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Categories:
allocate, courage,
Form: Free verse
I Got My Shot
...I got my shot and now I’m not
Afraid of waiting for a slot
Like all of those who lost their spot
Since many sites have diddly-squat.
The current scene for the vaccine
Needs government to inter...
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Categories:
allocate, health, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Grace and Solitude
...Hovering hemispheres habitual harmonics, symmetrical solitudes in their Sonics,
Mastering melodies with mnemonics, amidst approbation of acoustical avionics…
Stellar symphonies sailing Celestia...
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Categories:
allocate, celebration, music, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Heart, the Head and the Soul Reigns Unsullied Belief
...Beyond the Heart, the Head and the Soul reigns unsulleable Belief
How he blurted in a moment of self-lacerating glory-be pique
Who will in a thousand years retrieve my poems from digital rot
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Categories:
allocate, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Sonnet
Rhymes For Shared Times
...RHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES
Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION
Keep your promises and earn...
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Categories:
allocate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Pssst Got a Minute
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Pssst Got a Minute?
By: Tom Wright
9/21/01
So inconsequential, our minutes may seem,
They're given to idleness, and oft to daydream.
Rarely do we consider, that increments in time,...
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Categories:
allocate, time,
Form: Couplet
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