Nataraja
...For a while I'll wear His Holy peaceful radiant smile...
Dancing along with The Lord Of The Dance upon His temple's tile.
Our cosmic spiralling banishing all of which is vile....
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Categories:
banishing, god, hinduism, religion, religious,
Form: Sijo
ANDY'O ON THE SHOW
...Andy O’(Snaps fingers rhythmically) The air hangs thick with midnight blue/And the city hums a graffiti tune/ a voice cuts through, a velvet blade/Andy O’, where stories are made/Poet, Musician, Bro...
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Categories:
banishing, culture,
Form: Spoken Word
Fortunate Failures of Fallacy and Regret
...Fortunate failure of fallacy and regret
Contortionist cartoonist illustrating what id like to forget
Proportions of misfortune that I have to measure then reject
Insubordinate illusions of what th...
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Categories:
banishing, life,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Scents
...Each mote of dust that floats airborne
eddies on the light cool balmy breeze
ushered from wide open window
fragrancing the house with summer scents.
Eddies on the light cool balmy breeze,
posi...
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Categories:
banishing, summer,
Form: Free verse
Love Beyond the Veil
...It was the summer of sixteen twenty-three,
When moonlight danced upon the sea,
And there she stood, like stars in bloom,
Anna, radiant, banishing gloom.
Her yacht lay kissed by twilight’s foam,...
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Categories:
banishing, birth,
Form: Free verse
A Scintillating Sunrise- POTD
...Brandishing the lightning lance, the sun arrives,
The mighty, majestic monarch of the day.
Kissing the mouldy mountain rows, he comes
Banishing mist and frost from night’s blotched brow.
In...
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Categories:
banishing, appreciation, nature, smile,
Form: Alliteration
BEN NOLA
...Lights dim, and a single spotlight illuminates the stage/Ben Nola has sumptin 2 say/
a page/ a stage/ two worlds were born from the seed of thought/
One, etched in ink, a monument meticulously wr...
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Categories:
banishing, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
The Heart of Every Family
...Your love, a boundless ocean, a sunbeam warm and true,
That melts away the darkness and sees us safely through.
A gentle hand that guides us, with wisdom's gentle art,
Supporting all our dreams,...
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Categories:
banishing, appreciation, mothers day, poems,
Form: Free verse
Bad Sick Brains
...Bad sick brains/ A jolt to the soul Energy raw, untamed, a primal scream/
Then Blink-182, "First Date," pop punk dreams, sixty million views, a digital stream, what a bad dream/ is anybody makin’ ...
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Categories:
banishing, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
PURPLE DREAMS IN OTHER REALMS
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A love that on soft breezes seems to sigh,
A quiet tune the twilight shadows hum.
Within her gaze, the distant galaxies lie,
Where amethystine stardust has become
A canvas for the visions she...
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Categories:
banishing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Dayspring on High
..."Because of our God’s tender mercy
the dawn will break upon us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness..."
Luke 1:77-79
When morning breaks in upon my bed
banish...
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Categories:
banishing, 11th grade, adventure, light,
Form: Quatrain
When the Daystar Shines
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Morning breaks in upon my bed
welcome thoughts stir this sleepy head
banishing fear, dismissing dread.
Summoning sparkles in my eyes,
on waking up, daybreak supplies
hope-filled words, "Look...
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Categories:
banishing, 11th grade, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
le livre bleu
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“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine te...
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Categories:
banishing, muse,
Form: Free verse
AM I ME?
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As I sit here, aging fast, it's true,
I think of roads I didn't venture through.
A yearning heart, a path left unexplored,
A life of "perfect," carefully adored.
But now I wonder, with a to...
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Categories:
banishing, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Lunar Vein and Sunken Emeralds
...The cragged moon, a curdled, midnight bloom,
Where veins of frost, dissect a shadowed room.
A galaxy of mold, on lunar stone,
A whispered legend, soft and darkly known.
It weeps a brine, a sharp,...
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Categories:
banishing, allusion, art, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
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