Glum Yet Grateful
...Here comes the dawn
of a thoughtful Mourn.
Month of the desecrated demise
of a Monumental personage.
Unpleasant feels beclouds the air
I consume,
My structure reconciles itself
to the dread...
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Categories:
beclouds, anniversary, death, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Elegy
River of Clouds
...Contest: Trilonette Contest Sponsor: Joseph May 6-21-23
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River of Clouds
Lazy mists dawdle through valleys,
Wending in a river of clouds,
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Categories:
beclouds, river, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Tunde Canada
...The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to
Embroidered in revenge.
Tunde Canada!
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard, the hemisphere
At the time ...
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Categories:
beclouds, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form: Free verse
Ordeal of the African Albino
...When tongues arise to condemn racism
None speaks the ordeal of the African albino being
Defined by different views of ethnical beliefs
Discriminated by his brothers for lacking melanin
He i...
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Categories:
beclouds, absence, abuse, racism,
Form: Free verse
Graveyard of Poets
...There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds my vision
in hopes it leads me t...
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Categories:
beclouds, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
Graveyard of Poets
...There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds my vision
in hopes it leads me to the te...
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Categories:
beclouds, death,
Form: Free verse
The Irony of Fate
...In a moment of juvenile jealousy
he envies his red rival
with its intimate and greedy embrace of her angels’ share
of honey and vanilla spice
as wet stretchy hands of fervent fabric
possessiv...
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Categories:
beclouds, age, desire, fate, irony,
Form: Free verse
Slavery Ii
...My soul rebuffs this show of selfless gain ,
Though my wages are higher than a few ,
I’m still encased in caves like an insane ,
As my reign as the head beclouds my view .
Ploughing other peopl...
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Categories:
beclouds, life,
Form: Quatrain
Everyone Get To Die
...Tick and tock, the travelling footsteps of the clock
Footprints lost in the path of silence as time walks
The poor price a space, the rich buys the place
Truths stay hidden, lies keep bleeding
Bu...
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Categories:
beclouds, analogy,
Form: ABC
Happy Birthday Mayflower
...Happy birthday mayflower,
Happy birthday my merrigold.
Where we walk you provide the sight,
Brighten our ways where darkness beclouds.
Thin and thick you are the beacon,
You are the spark, you...
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Categories:
beclouds, birthday, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Hand
...The first invisible hand I saw, was the hand that appeared
in the banquet hall of the Babylonian palace, inscribing
letters on the wall, with its fingertip,
the letters, written by the invisi...
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Categories:
beclouds, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Confetti
...This compliment to this glory
Confetti! Confetti ! Confetti !
The prime of adulation
The resume of a new epoch
Sentiment of joy, prime of hope.
To this reality betrothed itself to humanity
Con...
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Categories:
beclouds, divorce, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Discordant Daughter of Discord
...How doth thou appear so alluring,
When thy content is but aworrying?
Though thy beauty and elegance I apprehend,
Thy charm and power I can’t comprehend.
Tall, short, fat, and slim doth thou appea...
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Categories:
beclouds, passion, beauty, art, art,
Form: Didactic
Love Rings Like Bluebells
...Thy love rings like bluebells caught in spring’s breeze
Singing out to my heart heaven’s chorus
Such beauteous song brings larks to their knees
Humming birds charm-ed stilly and voiceless
Thy rad...
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Categories:
beclouds, lovelove, daffodils,
Form: Sonnet