Exodus
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The only fear of this stubborn lion heart
is to beat - unheard, without the blessings of your sighs.
In the absence of your affection,
severe silence spins cobwebs upon mossy fences,
you have b...
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Categories:
anaemic, absence, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Shrapnel
...Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
th...
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Categories:
anaemic, anxiety, august, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Blue Jade
...Shivering shimmers of scars passed out of my scarlet, scarred past. My ginger demons engulfed the fermented pain as I watched my regal orchid—the fussiest, sacred damsel who jitterbugs as an exiled s...
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Categories:
anaemic, addiction, appreciation, art, blue,
Form: Free verse
streets of solitude
...after doors close after hours when scarlet neon flickers out red-light nights fill voids of need my body is a ripped flower my throat tingles to the burn of vodka-fire gleaning the ...
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Categories:
anaemic, business,
Form: Free verse
Paper Kingdom
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Yesterday,
when there was clarity,
I arose resembling
the flames of sunrise.
Like an articulate artist,
entranced in nature,
I painted fluorescent hues
upon her butterfly wings.
Togethe...
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Categories:
anaemic, angst, metaphor, pain,
Form: Free verse
Blurred Anaemic Edge
...The urge to travel,
to spread your wings and fly away,
never rooted to one spot.
never spotted on a route.
signpost now defunct,
map a feeble pointer,
direction only by one’s nose.
Intuition ...
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Categories:
anaemic, art, day, deep, dream,
Form: Imagism
Indefinable Love
...Indefinable Love...
Duty without love makes us hard and dictatorial.
With Love, we are softer, have a clearer, wider understanding. And: Accountable for what we do and who we are.
Education wi...
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Categories:
anaemic, blessing, courage, deep, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Frosted Fields
...A weak winter sun, anaemic and wan,
devoid of all warmth, listlessly shone
on fields fresh frosted with nighttime’s hoar,
masking all traces of animal’s spore.
The crunch of farmer’s boot on ...
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Categories:
anaemic, farm, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Innocent Children Are the Largest Victims
...No blood would ooze out if cut by blade
No flesh below to sink, nothing inside shakes
Bare bones protruding here and there like spikes
Vacant look in the eyes
Yet the body breathes and survives;
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Categories:
anaemic, africa,
Form: Free verse
When the Whole Wide World Shrinks
...I am not taking about an apocalypse
I am not talking about humanity’s ultimate collapse
I am not talking about shores battling oceans
This is not about earthquakes inhaling hurricanes
This is a...
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Categories:
anaemic, absence, freedom, friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Two Minutes To Midnight
...Two Minutes to Midnight
What are your intentions Sir, its important that I know?
The World is close to Midnight, only two minutes to go.
Remember empty promises to keep us safe and free,
Words ...
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Categories:
anaemic, america, conflict, leadership, war,
Form: Sonnet
From Ennui To Elan
...The bullish sun sat on your avant-garde tree
Growing on the baroque poems of your dancing knee
The dilettante attributed it to the icy ennui
As elan had been in a holiday spree
I was ver...
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Categories:
anaemic, conflict, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Alienation
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"Alienation"
Burning through the atmosphere
a diamond hugs herculean, demanding, meteoric,
fast like a sharp spear aimed at Zion in the
obsidian night sky deep, so vast,...
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Categories:
anaemic, earth, imagery, lost, mystery,
Form: Free verse
What Is the Douse of Men
...What is the douse of men?
That drives clutched
Formidable and incredible
From skull bird
To the modern stone shack’s lament.
The knot of history unravels;
Breathed through eyes,
Sighted throug...
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Categories:
anaemic, humanity, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cold Blooded
...COLD BLOODED
Summer grows old
cold-blooded
tree’s scant
leafless twigs
bend and break
creek and whither
Anaemic the suns
pathetic rise
and fall so soon
the rainplunge of
icede...
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Categories:
anaemic, seasons, winter,
Form: Personification
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