Starving Eyes
...As I scream out your name I fall
In darkness I have labored scantly clad in sack cloth and ashes
Wait for me I won't be long
My time is nearly up
Crimson moons in rivers by the shore break my sil...
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Categories:
arenas, bible, blessing, christian, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Secret Ink - Memory Grasp
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Written: April 14, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Matt Caliri
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Inked impressions intricately
inscribed into the epidermis,
and a story evolves....
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Categories:
arenas, art, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
One and Done
...There's a piece of cultural rhetoric,
That has survived both victory and defeat.
As it speaks to a summary unity,
And a conclusion to become and complete.
With a simple, rhythmic verse ...
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Categories:
arenas, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Things Missing
...Life is much to do about time, space, and place.
Our lives are developed in these three arenas.
It is where our lives are continually altered.
It is also where things go missing.
What is it l...
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Categories:
arenas, christian,
Form: Free verse
Two Old Gods
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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories:
arenas, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Blooming Block
...Sitting on the block of the day
Looking into amethyst abyss
No longer seen as hunter or prey
Disenfranchised like blue cold kiss
Watching the animals fight their wars
Knowing some win some lo...
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Categories:
arenas, america, blue, boy, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Faces without color
...I bury my face in my hands to cover the shame because everything was not the same, the spectacular air parade was blocked from the balcony and trooping the colors were searching for their destiny.
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Categories:
arenas, business, celebration, change, death,
Form: Narrative
God's Mercy
...Most assuredly, for America,
These are not the best of times,
nor are these the worst of times.
Times have been worst and there is no
promise of better days ahead. History for good
or bad is ...
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Categories:
arenas, prayer,
Form: Free verse
HEARTLESS PATRIOTS
...Once again, they horde the fuel
Tricking everyone to blame the gov't spoil.
Weeks ago, they pledged loyalty
To serve her faithfully with all might
Yet here they are, inflating prices, pocketing t...
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Categories:
arenas, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
To Which Image Should we Cling
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Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly...
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Categories:
arenas, analogy, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
United Triumph of India - The pride behind
...In bustling cities where dreams take flight,
Amidst the chaos, people strive and sway,
A tapestry of faces, colors bright,
Unity in diversity, a sight divine,
In every heart, a love beyond compar...
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Categories:
arenas, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sestina
Room 251 13 th March 2024
...Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming en...
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Categories:
arenas, community, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Unleash your Primal Scream
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Non-performing AI and EV’s now center stage
customers rightly outraged
Unleash your primal scream
Transgender men destroying women’s sports
dominating arenas and courts
Unl...
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Categories:
arenas, anger, political, together, voice,
Form: Rhyme
The PNW Poetry Guy
...In the heart of the evergreen state where mountains touch the sky
You’ll find the PNW Poetry Guy under Mt. Rainier’s watchful eye
With the South Sound’s rain-soaked landscape boasting tall fir tre...
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Categories:
arenas, home,
Form: Quatrain
February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch
...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch
Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
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Categories:
arenas, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
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