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Memories Carry Weight

When betrayal alters fate,
anxieties soon increase.
For memories carry weight,
when emotions seek release.

Love drowns in a pool of tears,
forming a sea of regret.
But, although it may...

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Categories: carry weight, august, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain

Confluence

Title 3/ Confluence Quote:  Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucius

In the poetic story of my life, 
I hesitate and ponder 'don't be so obvious,'
but whatever I am thinking - becomes a...

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Categories: carry weight, analogy, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Do Not Delay

I wait for you to come with open arms,
for pain that flays and sears me will not cease
though once I feared you, now I see...

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Categories: carry weight, death,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Do You Know My Abc's?

And it was there. Looking me in the eye, “I shall born you.” I was overcome with 
sadness.

Before I was born I died. I was...

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Categories: carry weight, allegory, confusion, death, history,
Form: ABC

The Jedi Has Returned

When you start to let go
What do you see?  Liberation
You've been hanging on too much
You are not supposed to have any weight on you
It's...

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Categories: carry weight, faith, fun,
Form: Free verse

Autumns Paradox

Autumns leaves fall from a tree
Swiftly drifting further from me
Autumn feels of home
Out of pace breathing under bone
Lay here hurting itching bleeding
Just a life distracted...

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Categories: carry weight, addiction, adventure, anger, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Daughter of Gibraltar

For a few coins Melord, I'll tell a story of two that met in this place, 
and here you can take your rest, and leave...

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Categories: carry weight, angst, giving, love, poverty,
Form: Epic

Around Me

Times are hard
Money is in a vice grip
Numbers scare people & use to stretch a tight lip
Dice get roll
Lose your life when the card flip
People...

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Categories: carry weight, black african american, community,
Form: Free verse

On Going . . .

Under a witch’s moon
blows the wind that blows within
she sings her songs
in out of tune 

In her troubled heart
sorrow blows across her soul
on a restless...

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Categories: carry weight, anniversary, business, cowboy-western, food,
Form: Free verse

What Kindness Makes

Am I more than just a size
               Lustrous hair or sultry...

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Categories: carry weight, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

When Skies Break Loose

Raining down upon our thoughts,
dreams so dreary leave only stomach knots.
so mighty and tall they towered us all, reflecting
the sapphire sky so blue, Beholding our...

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Categories: carry weight, inspirational, loss, heart, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Vows

I have recently been in awe,
feeling overwhelmed,
my heart being somewhere again.


I haven't' had a feeling 
like this for some time.

Finding something I lost
I threw it...

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Categories: carry weight, love,
Form: Narrative

Soul Safe

Soul safe 

Deep beneath soft tissue 
Lays a Scripture 
All the scars healed and forgotten 
Carved on muscle tissue 
It remembers 
Even tho your skin...

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Categories: carry weight, anxiety, betrayal, dark, grief,
Form: Free verse

A Rock Displaced

The sins of man had brought Him here
To carry weight we should have bore
Upon His shoulders He carried all
For all of us, for love and...

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Categories: carry weight, death, faith, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Oceans In Droplets Dwell

today the past is now present
jarring brass voices carry weight
high-pitched illustrations
shutter light from daybreak dawn

future tenses refuse reflection
engineering a blinding bluff 
seeking slogans fruitful echoes
crisp...

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Categories: carry weight, introspection,
Form: Free verse