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Breaking Free
I feel trapped in a shell and want to get out
It get so frustrating I want to shout
Trying to figure out what put me here...

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© BE Bailey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breaking free, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streets
to my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...

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Categories: breaking free, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - In the Power of Death and the Depths of Darkness -
In order to obtain true freedom in our lives
Close your eyes and see the light of an angel
Wondering what this life is really all about
That...

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Categories: breaking free, confusion, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
A Butterfly Inside
I feel a butterfly inside;
its wings are cramped within my breast.
The weight of flesh, o dull cocoon,
prohibits my free flight. At best
I only soar inside;...

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Categories: breaking free, butterfly, death, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Percivals Promise!
The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance

Streaming with incresent colours towards life

Infinite within its parhelion possibilities

Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides

Whereupon all things...

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Categories: breaking free, faith, life, love, time,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Love's Yearning
Hearts like ours will cross our silent yearning
and dance with lonely wishes and dreams
to find the longing realm of love

Like vagabonds, we will dance on...

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Categories: breaking free, desire, feelings, longing, true
Form: Free verse
Winter's End
Mountains put away their winter caps.
In warm sun, soon they'll take their naps.

Rivers stuffed full of melting snow;
running swift to trim, then they will slow.

Brooks...

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Categories: breaking free, nature, spring, winter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Breath of Spring
I step onto the path with burdens weighed.
A chill wind at my back, the skies are lead.
Because this is the day the Lord has made,
I...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breaking free, faith, spring,
Form: Sonnet
No Way Out
Locked behind these prison bars 
Hiding all these deep painful scars 
Alone with my heartbroken fraternity 
Sentenced to serve time for all eternity 

Daydreaming of...

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© Ct Duet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breaking free, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Attitude
With the onset of years
erstwhile crazy ideas
abandoned with caution and dread
now crowd my mind
no peace I will find
till my conscience lies neatly in shreds

Conscience, out...

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Categories: breaking free, light,
Form: Rhyme
Caravan Friends
Truly, the bee hive innards hum 
Truly, the body inside gurgles 
Truly, the cave echoes the vortex 

Truly I know these sounds 
from last night...

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Categories: breaking free, allegoryurdu, me,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Through the Mist
I grope through forest misted by my pain
Unearthly feel of gloom enshrouding me
Like wispy ghosts the memories a bane
Their hazy fingers keep from breaking free
Beclouded...

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Categories: breaking free, confusion, heartbroken,
Form: Ottava rima
The Riders
The pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums,  beating in...

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Categories: breaking free, adventure,
Form: Prose
Hen
Monologue of a chicken kept at automatic poultry farm.
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I am a chicken,
did your mouth water on hearing my name?
To you I am a delicacy, mere...

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Categories: breaking free, abuse, animal, bird,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Living
Great is my desire to know this life
of passionate days under a golden light.
Walking in to arms that are held wide open,
I believe there is...

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Categories: breaking free, life, desire,
Form: Free verse

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