Ignorance
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Ignorance is bliss they say,
Gonna find me some of that some day~
Night is falling on the Earth
Out there where there is no mirth;
Reality is such a drag,
Anodynes in hidden rags
(Never ever ...
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Categories:
anodynes, depression,
Form: Acrostic
Yet, More Than a Brother Emeka Akpe
...Apparitions of buried memories exhumed with rash eulogies
Arouse dried up tears that ever fail to cleanse the robe of guilt
Arraigning again before the partial jury of tormenting thoughts
Kaleid...
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Categories:
anodynes, allegory, allusion, analogy, brother,
Form: Alliteration
Yet More Than a Brother
...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l...
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Categories:
anodynes, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother,
Form: Bio
Listening To Poetry
...Poetry is warm and friendly,
nice to hear, healing,
with room for everyone
great and small.
Even writers of anonymous verse,
those great anodynes for the faithful,
are remembered from time to t...
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Categories:
anodynes, introspection, on writing and
Form: Free verse
The Ship and the Wind
...He comes and goes
Like a breeze:
In her life…
And out again
Filling sails of joy
Then calm and agony
Like the breeze
He is an ephemeral happening
Coming and going
Never knowing anythin...
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Categories:
anodynes, love, feelings, love,
Form: I do not know?
Moonrise
...Now bring your rain to fall on me
To wash away my deep regrets
I know how lost it all can be
To one who's only seen sunsets
But rise, pure heart, sweet sanguine gem
But rise, and I cannot condem...
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Categories:
anodynes, love, nature, philosophy, heart,
Form: I do not know?