We're different roads
...We walk divergent paths, you and I,
Two distinct journeys, like parallel lines in the sky,
Our minds, a dichotomy, a clash of thought and deed,
I navigate logic's realm, while you follow feelings'...
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Categories:
backgrounds, funny love, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Racism in the Workplace
...Racism in the Workplace**
Racism is a prevalent issue within workplace environments, often manifesting in the interactions among employees. Given that individuals spend a significant portion of th...
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Categories:
backgrounds, anti bullying, anxiety, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode to a Journalist
...You made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
Man and beast...
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Categories:
backgrounds, dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Lettrs App
...This is a place where we put our emotions out there
We write about our fantasies or our ugly nightmares
Releasing so much stress by using our virtual pen
So many backgrounds we don't know where...
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Categories:
backgrounds, computer, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Can be Done
...Love has been described as a battlefield as it can leave us with scars that can be seen and unseen by others.
Especially when the notes are singing in harmony.
A Harmony that is purely Bella to t...
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Categories:
backgrounds, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Juvenile Delinquents' personal informational Bible scam part two
...Those two partners pretended to be against each other, with one of them pretending to
be a 'bad influence on the other one,' but the so-called good kid was just as bad as his
partner in crime. And...
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Categories:
backgrounds, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
SELMA WISDOM
...It was that bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
The fight and struggle
The revolution with Hate and Love
The multitudes to convey the Civil Rights message
The shall in overcome
Marching for Miles
It w...
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Categories:
backgrounds, care, color, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Paul Beadnall My Testimony SHORT VERSION
...PAUL BEADNALL TESTIMONY. FEAR TO FAITH TO FREEDOM.
I was brought up on a rough council estate 1 of 6 kids, Mam and Dad from ungodly backgrounds there was no love plenty of arguing and fighting, w...
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Categories:
backgrounds, analogy, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
HerStory
...HerStory
HerStory
YourStory
MyStory
Somehow always ends up being the same
It's a blessing
To be a woman
Let me explain
We are so unique
Eloquently made
We are a demand in stock
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Categories:
backgrounds, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC
Tri-Holiday
...The time of the year was ripe with people being able to change their styles of fashion and desires by merely becoming part of a holiday that allowed them to be different.
It was a time of the year w...
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Categories:
backgrounds, analogy, anxiety, lonely, longing,
Form: Sonnet
The Prayer of the Outsider
...The Prayer of the Outsider
(A little old lady whispers all alone in the cold. Looking up at the rain filled sky.)
Dear God
You brought me to life from nothing
To try to do something
To ...
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Categories:
backgrounds, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Generations
...I often ponder about the perpetuous anathema in my household, because growing up, that abominable behavior was quite normalized.
I’ve always heard derogatory, disrespectful remarks or comments, God,...
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Categories:
backgrounds, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Super Soupers
...I've roamed the halls of Poetry Soup for nearly nine years
and had lots of ups and downs, cried happy and sad tears
Some poets are super duper people that I call my 'friends'
There are some snoope...
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Categories:
backgrounds, community, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Racism
...Racism you all know it isn't good,
It causes fights and it draws lots of blood.
We are all different colours we don't need to fight,
It really does not matter if your black or white.
Why does rac...
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Categories:
backgrounds, discrimination, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Excuse Me: Say What: Are You Blind: Well I Never:
...I err on the side of formality in receipt of undetermined
gender-initiated contact via a surname known to me to be of two different genders, despite that, appropriates;
To Whom It May Concern:
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Categories:
backgrounds, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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