Traffic Jam Schadenfreude
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Every morning, I work from home
I turn on the radio, if I'm unhappy and alone
You hear so much misery when the car jams are told
Make you feel happier, if you're mean and cold
The outbound Ge...
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Categories:
attaching, car, humor, humorous, sympathy,
Form: Lyric
All That We Dream
...(“The Longest Journey”, 2020, original encaustic)
All That We Dream
When George Harrison sang,
“Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday”
He was making a si...
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Categories:
attaching, celebration, life, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Random Thoughts
...When random thoughts are bombarding a mind,
Cohesiveness among them is hard to find.
Metaphors and symbols just like in one’s dreams,
Even what is seen, is not what it seems.
One must not resis...
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Categories:
attaching, creation, dream, how i
Form: Rhyme
Artistry of Poetry
...My pen is always near at hand, waiting
for my gentle grasp to give it the chance
to fulfill its purpose. It seems to be anticipating
being held as if we tango together in a ritual dance.
Whe...
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Categories:
attaching, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
WRODS OF HATE
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This goes out to anyone who’s ever felt the hurt of being called a name.
The sting when someone uses a word meant to malign you…
meant to denigrate…besmirch…defame.
Sometimes their words are o...
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Categories:
attaching, hate,
Form: Rhyme
A Ray of Sunshine
...Billions of beams,
Stream from The Sun.
Attaching itself to everyone,
And everything,
Living and Breathing.
Projecting a design,
So Complex and Divine,
Our bodies the end of the ...
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Categories:
attaching, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Humanism
...human
versus ism
you have to believe
in god
to sell your soul
to the devil
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humanism
noun
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than...
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Categories:
attaching, humanity, religion,
Form: Free verse
Knowing in search of Not Knowing
...Identifying
With a story
Is the attraction
Offered by
Separation..
Searching and
Attaching to a
Satisfying story
Is the path of
Knowing in search
Of not-knowing......
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Categories:
attaching, words,
Form: Light Verse
FRIENDSHIP DAY SAYS
...FRIENDSHIP DAY SAYS....
Friendship genises, not by just shaking a friend's hand ….
But, it extends , by attaching his mind to its full band….
Friendly feeling scratch, not by alig...
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Categories:
attaching, friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Brain Damage
...Pain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears...
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Categories:
attaching, allah,
Form: Munajat
The Screaming Souls of a Soundless Forest
...I romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a st...
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Categories:
attaching, absence, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Burn like me
...The colors of life have all run together creating a darkness, becoming a void. Attaching its self to and slowly removing every moment in life I've ever enjoyed.
I stop to smell the flowers. Only...
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Categories:
attaching, anger, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Stained Glass Insecurities
...I thought I saw the butterflies inked on your skin
Flying away
Your vial of tears was spilled out on your journal page
I couldn't see the words of the letter that you wrote
But I'm sure it was...
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Categories:
attaching, absence, abuse, death of
Form: Free verse
Suicide
...Yesterday she killed herself by hanging from the ceiling
It carried her weight but she could not
She was everyday troubled by the future worries
All she wanted a good tight sleep, away from all th...
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Categories:
attaching, 12th grade, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse
On the thread of time's journey where souls intertwine, then depart
...On the thread of time's journey where souls intertwine, then depart,
The poet treads slowly, unraveling three loves, each a new gesture.
The first, a youthful spark, untainted in the dawn's embrace...
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Categories:
attaching, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
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