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Ramblings

...Foothills The physics of metaphysics … the part I like the best Where symbols yearn as planets turn —new twigs to build the nest (Dreamsleep: December, 2023) A Picture Imager......

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Categories: bearing false witness, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Almost Persuaded

...I am the one building my house upon the sand. I am the one blind and leading the blind. I am the one rich and exceedingly sorrowful. I am the one making a vow I will not fulfill. I am the one una......

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Categories: bearing false witness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Bearing False Witness

...Bearing false witness, may or may not, condemn the accused But would, unquestionably, condemn the soul of the accuser! © Demetrios Trifiatis 06 August 2020......

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Categories: bearing false witness, abuse, truth,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Casting Shame

...By darkness I trolled in my oft-shedding skin Hidden alleys I roamed for new victims at whim But at last I must face the deception I’ve wrought And repay every memory that fester......

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Categories: bearing false witness, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Casting Shame

Categories: bearing false witness, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Bearing False Witness

...Pretending to be the pure an innocent, a viper the mask hides. In the absence of those to defending themselves, the more vigorously it swears. Those that show too cre......

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Categories: bearing false witness, evil, words,
Form: Verse

A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I

...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ......

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Categories: bearing false witness, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Jesus, Hold Me While I Cry

...Where are the times, I use to know Family and friends were never foes So much leaves me to wonder why Jesus, hold me while I cry Lately, life has become so busy The world so demanding, never e......

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Categories: bearing false witness, bible, christian, cry, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Casting Shame

...By darkness I trolled, in my oft-shedding skin Hidden alleys I roamed, for new victims at whim But at last I must face the deception I’ve wrought And relive every memory, that festers an......

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Categories: bearing false witness, sin,
Form: Ballad

Here, My Dear

...Humble yesterday, your intimate memories are now bearing false witness, following our demise. There are scattered whispers of a residential cloud nine, that I called my own after the storm. No......

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Categories: bearing false witness, analogy, break up, growth,
Form: Free verse