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Categories:
audibly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Life
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“Life”
Sat here in this god-damned courtroom,
unable to move
backed into the corner by kangaroos
no escape from the ill-informed
baptised in their five minutes of ...
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Categories:
audibly, humanity, life, muse,
Form: Narrative
Silence and Sound
...The tale of when our ancient world begins
when curious characters did abound,
such as the audibly contrasting twins,
who bore the common names Silence and Sound.
The mission Sound would always...
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Categories:
audibly, silence, sound,
Form: Sonnet
The noise was christened as silence listened
..."No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence"
Quote taken from the Sounds of Silence by Paul Simon.
Echoes of a lingering quiet time,
When no one hears the bells that chime.
Through the...
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Categories:
audibly, song,
Form: Rhyme
Mystic Crystal Obsidian Oracle
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Written: April 5th, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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Crimson blood-colored sunlight
seeps upon the pyramids —
Shadows cast w...
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Categories:
audibly, analogy, history,
Form: Free verse
Tests of Humanity
...If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" taken from The Merchant of Venice, Act 3 Scene 1
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Categories:
audibly, allusion, humanity, humor, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Sound Bites - June 25, 2024
...Blessed Quietude
Audibly
we rise
and fall
But Silence ...
is the language
of God
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
Lost In Place
The past
is never where you left it
Tomorrow
— deleg...
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Categories:
audibly, sound, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Granma's Porch
...As Freshly Laundered Linens
Secured By Pins On a Back Yard Clothes Line
Airing Out In Daisy Aromatic Breeze
Set to Dry Under The Friendly Not too Hot Sun!
I Sigh, For this is All In My Mind
Sitt...
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Categories:
audibly, grandmother, memorial, sunset,
Form: Free verse
THOSE WORDS-
...Old Testament where are the words that you spell are they having blessed those words that you spit out I speak letters that are confined at it make words I speak words that make sentences audibly I s...
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Categories:
audibly, addiction, analogy,
Form: Free verse
If They
...If they make you transform into a puddle of goop at their feet, then you know you’re in trouble and you should run before it gets too deep
If they convey that the words in the love songs that they h...
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Categories:
audibly, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
The Company You Keep
...All quiet on the western front:
The rest, in bed, still sleeping.
Then, audibly, I hear a grunt;
The neck hairs start their creeping.
Then springing up from on the couch
To do a full room swee...
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Categories:
audibly, granddaughter, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
Soul Sounding
...Soul Sounding
I have felt my soul
Solid
Within me
Lighten,
Ascend
Into God’s focus
Into communion
That all my spirit and being
Be known by Him…
Thus, often...
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Categories:
audibly, christian, god, health, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...
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Categories:
audibly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Stand Up To Cheers
...Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front and spirits linked
Not s...
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Categories:
audibly, memory,
Form: Quatrain
A Christmas Tale
...A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...
There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And deci...
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Categories:
audibly, christmas, humor,
Form: Narrative
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