Befallen
...Mouth of the orange-flavored lollipop
Hands of the bicycle on the yard
Eyes of the doll playing days
Saw nothing
But easy death snatched the child
Piles of tears
on the red valleys of corpses...
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Categories:
befallen, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Shores of Fear and Ice
...Bloody shores of fear and ice, seldom seen
To be the stringent strangler borne of leaden blight
The barred bastard, whore of the night
Seen so the lowly leers led to fear the fall of life
Stitch ...
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Categories:
befallen, anger, birth, corruption, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
ale and horses
...A Horse and ale
The brewery had many horses to carry crates of beer
around to small shops, each horse and its driver was assigned a route
The horse I liked was shiny black and had been used for
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Categories:
befallen, animal, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: ABC
Constituted Corruption
...Since dawn of time, mankind always fought authority
Rulers of nations, king's they call themselves
Always wanting to build upon a foundation
Like a bully, a thief in night's mist
Pushing gree...
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Categories:
befallen, betrayal, change, deep, imagery,
Form: Narrative
A Winter's Stall
...Midst the flit wandered mist of lame Autumn
tethered vestige suns, seas a riverbed
failed wanton seasons a whole third it saved
absence to course unforgiving outcome
to no avail, tooth and nail h...
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Categories:
befallen, autumn, winter,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Subject is Your Mind While Sleeping
...A sullen
sickness
befallen me
from whence
a darkening
ventured
nigh
and stolen
the sparkling
embodiment
features of
stars
in the
gloaming
of the mundane
hovering misery
of shooting
d...
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Categories:
befallen, analogy, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Personification
Two Bros Find A Road
...Values persuade a parting of ways,
hollow depths pivot the kindred root,
a bored dreamer surfing pipeline waves,
since bare feet days, mark the start of braves,
soften hours held a moon ...
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Categories:
befallen, memory, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Children of a Different Sun
...“We are all petals of imperfection sharing the same sun” - Silent One
The sun can appear to be coldhearted
be truly said by those of equal share
the nature of them that had departed
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Categories:
befallen, appreciation, beautiful, bible, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Ledger of Love: PART II
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Ledger of Love
In the shadows of the Victorian night,
Where candles flicker with amorous light,
A forbidden love fiercely burns,
In a pounding heart, passion yearns.
Amidst the lace...
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Categories:
befallen, break up, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Climbing Time
...Climbing time
Tredging forward and climbing time. Hoping to find an end to this darkness that has befallen me. So far it is endless and feels like it may slowly smother me.
This darkness carries...
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Categories:
befallen, brother, grief,
Form: Free verse
Ode be to The Beast
...I knowest there'd be rime aplenty,
forthwith I see frozed sea of many
unlearned sorts who'd unread apiece
of Dante's acclaimed centerpiece
for had they'd all, with certainty ... read,...
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Categories:
befallen, fate, fire, horror, imagery,
Form: Ode
An Elegy for a Fallen Bridge: Baltimore’s Night of Tragedy
...As night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had slipped away,
Bearing goods for far-off lands,...
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Categories:
befallen, death, horror,
Form: Elegy
It Started With A Blank Canvas
...
One moment she was there and the next she was gone
like the wind when it blows through the eaves,
one moment she was there and the next, she was not
The...
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Categories:
befallen, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
My Family's First Generational Curse Breaker
...MY FAMILY'S FIRST GENERATIONAL CURSE BREAKER
In a lineage burdened by shadows past,
There emerged a soul, destined to outlast.
The first generational curse breaker they became,
A beacon of hop...
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Categories:
befallen, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of A Frail Mind
...“Are you afraid of being left behind?”
“No, it’s just temporary, I’m not lonely.”
But abandonment issues aren't easy.
Perhaps it’s called a frail state of mind.
A tragedy befallen upon mankind,...
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Categories:
befallen, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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