Broken Eagle Soars Again
...I hold three magic rocks, in my hand.
Rolling them over and over and over.
Leaving reality behind, far behind.
once an eagle
with a clipped wing
attempting
without su...
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Categories:
asperity, endurance, journey, life, strength,
Form: Narrative
Boundliss
...Blackberry briar bounds the river: a curb
o’er the levee’s curve; a thorny imbroglio
under which twitters sing in broody milieu
Naught but the resilient do venture within
daunting vine bent in as...
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Categories:
asperity, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Government
...Our president sat on a wall
Our president had a great fall
All the Towers and all the powers
Couldn't repair as his face sours
Another president sits on the wall
I wonder will he h...
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Categories:
asperity, dark,
Form: Rhyme
From Vanity To Christ
...This long or short grotesque shadowy path,
this dreadful sorrowing sojourn through the vale,
this burden of ceaseless hope banished at the instance
This thing we called Life, puny bay leaf of ti...
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Categories:
asperity, bible, cry, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
Latent Black Payback
...Losses not consolidated leave contributor raw
Arrears rip pages of rational compassionate law
Turblent thoughts toss turn to channel retaliation
Embittered brain rubs static into smooth radio sta...
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Categories:
asperity, absence, betrayal, evil, fear,
Form: Acrostic
Love and Turmoil In the Heart
...Prevalence of my tenure and my decision.
What's the explanation for your heartache?
Oh, soul, how did you let follow the passion?
People who love you have had heartbreak.
While I feel doubt and n...
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Categories:
asperity, appreciation, blessing, care, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Panic Attack
...Panic attack, Panic attack
What when where why remedy
of a soul’s splitting in two
Panic attack, Panic attack
The demons too deep hymn one’s own threnody
The devil to he who suffers introductio...
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Categories:
asperity, angst, anxiety, depression, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Battles of Life
...In between the prayers of a million words and emotions
To the God in the sky, statues and pictures stuck on walls,
Looking out for some signs of their existence,
Constantly asking for the solution...
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Categories:
asperity, conflict, confusion, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Asp
...A-s-p are three high-functioning letters
And while I imagine that some might do better
Here are some ways to bring them together
At the start of a word we have aspirin and asparagus
Not to me...
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Categories:
asperity, humorous, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse
Aspiration
...Aspiration
Antoine had crashed once again when tempting the desert
Freedom fighter laureate poet daredevil testing the call of
~ Poisonous Times ~
A mysterious man...
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Categories:
asperity, hope,
Form: Free verse
Apologia To Avoid An Online World Squaw Bull
...please allow ample delivery time
per arability of friendship
and hoop fully this acquiescence
can render an accord shared
via exchanging calumet peace pipe
initially inv...
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Categories:
asperity, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
An Untrustworthy Guy
...Some guys many skills have mastered,
I blush when I try to tell little lies
and shaking I reveal my fakeness;
quite a few girls have slapped me hard.
Cindy went on vacation heading South,
she...
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Categories:
asperity, absence, adventure, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
True Love
...Love is from the heart not the mind
true love is one of a kind
It does not judge
It does not lie
It does not cheat
True love is always therein
Through times of asperity
Sickness and health
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Categories:
asperity, love,
Form: Alliteration
In Love
...Whenever you hold me I got shy...
Under the clouds of wishes on the green sky...
We junctured in the land of sea...
The asperity of love attracting me towards you...
The same thing goes with you....
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Categories:
asperity, beauty, blessing, fantasy, love,
Form: Ballad
A Response To Autobiography In Five Short Chapters
...A single drop of clarity.
Fear not truth’s asperity.
Following your intuition,
turn, behold, a new direction....
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Categories:
asperity, encouraging, simple, truth,
Form: Carpe Diem
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