The Crown of Silence: A Lament for King Charles III
...You wear a crown forged in centuries of silence,
Not of gold, but of tears—each gem a wound,
Each jewel a stolen breath from lands unnamed.
The sun never set on your empire, Charles,
But neither ...
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Categories:
beneficiary, abuse, betrayal, history, sin,
Form: Free verse
Dear Federal Senators, I am asking you to protect Medicaid because
...our home care workers would lose their essential care taking jobs and their
clients would also lose their necessary services.
If you are on Medicaid, you should send your own cards to your Senato...
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Categories:
beneficiary, care, caregiving, work,
Form: Prose
Mr Slim
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He was a born teacher
From birth destined to be
You'd know by his phene.
In capitalist-run schools
He's taught for many years
Earning pennies for labour.
Three years a beneficiary
On sti...
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Categories:
beneficiary, abuse, betrayal, career, future,
Form: Blank verse
Paramaribo
...In Paramaribo
I met a girl, half Indian and beautiful
there was a big church and a castle
to defend Dutch interest
A hot and swampy place, which I liked
coming from Norway, a cold country
wit...
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Categories:
beneficiary, 3rd grade, beautiful, birth,
Form: Free verse
Cadaver Elegy
...They handed me the scalpel like a crown-
Queenship of the pail and prostrate.
I ascended my throne of sterile steel,
The body laid bare, my unwilling courtier.
Death they said was merely a text...
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Categories:
beneficiary, age, anxiety, death, education,
Form: Free verse
a small bank
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A small bank
When I visit my bank, which is a small rural one
the bank lady who warns me not to overspend
and my wife meets I go for a coffee across
the road, they are both from Congo and ha...
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Categories:
beneficiary, anti bullying, blessing, color,
Form: Free verse
Tautogram: Number 01
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An Kaleidoscopical Use
Apple Kindergartener ...
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Categories:
beneficiary, analogy,
Form: Tautogram
BK
...Balanced, benevolent beneficiary; I've become blessed kind-hearted keeper. ...
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Categories:
beneficiary, blessing,
Form: Alliteration
Brother Whosoever
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To a dog, an empty hand's cause
even a well-intentioned one
flinches an involuntary jaw..
your neighbor's just the same.
Have you grown leery the open palm...
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Categories:
beneficiary, brother, people, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
How Do I Love Thee
...I don't know
that love has a
bucket list,
a program best
to follow...and
writers do seem often
inclined more amorous
of
text...
especially us poets, flag
carriers of the heart,
sel...
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Categories:
beneficiary, emotions, heart, love, poems,
Form: Free verse
What For Oh This War
...One year and more if people should die still,
Bombs keep raining, missiles shower red rage,
All seem routine to hearts hardening nigh,
World feels sad as an after-thought on stage.
But so had p...
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Categories:
beneficiary, war,
Form: Quatrain
The Art of Giving
...A leaf, a root
Anchors of life in two different worlds
Each working towards sustenance of a deity
The genesis of their life
Their synergy, assurance of concord
Amid discord of simultaneous los...
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Categories:
beneficiary, endurance, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Of Love and Bondage
...As I look to see the way she stands
when I leave
-I'm surprised as if a wave,
reminds me.
As long as the shadow of etertinity-
drawn from the drip of the cup
of our unspoken insecurity.
I...
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Categories:
beneficiary, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Trees
...Trees
Tallest of trees stand, sentinels, as if touching the sky
Reaching out, each branch, every limb, oh so very high
Species of every kind, vying for what nature will provide
Sunlight, rain, ...
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Categories:
beneficiary, beautiful, earth, nature, tree,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Incognito
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Incognito
Written: by Miracle Man
11-30-2019
Sometimes we do things,
which we keep concealed.
But if we tell one person,
our planted seed’s revealed.
Perhaps our seed planting,
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Categories:
beneficiary, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
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