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TWINFLAMES
TWINFLAMES 

Obsidian oscillated into lava
     slid across syntactic streams
        tumbled thick greenwood thickets 
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Categories: dictums, allusion, blessing, character, deep,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Dictum of Insanity
On par to manage joyful course
Approach to live without remorse
While dictums of insanity
Are grinding spars impaling me

Perchance to light upon derail
The most melodic harmony
The rest...

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Categories: dictums, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward:...

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Categories: dictums, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Into the Sunset
On nights of distress, he embraces me and states I am not his hostage.
I am beautiful and must be kidnapped.
He longed for my touched.
His characteristics...

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Categories: dictums, dance, dark, deep, i
Form: Verse
A Modern Tribute To Antiquity
A bit I have travelled, in the cities of this world
Each with a history – a tale that can be told
Through the lens of the...

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Categories: dictums, historycity, history,
Form: I do not know?



Outside
OUTSIDE

Sun awakens from its sleep 
stillness of the day uninterrupted
morning rituals call
hold to momentary pause.

The mirror speaks,
an epiphany.
Its quintessence brought forth so true
prior existence but a...

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Categories: dictums, race,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Playing the Victim
I feel deep sadness for the sullen and morose,
For their lives are wallowing in dissatisfaction
Unable to experience “The Lightness of Being,”
Aligning themselves with a disgruntled...

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Categories: dictums, anti bullying, people, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rwanda's Pain
The Belgian masters of old
gave in to the devil's wish,
offering Tutsi blood to
fill the Hutu tribal dish.

Wretched souls hacked asunder
killed in the shadow of fear,
corpses...

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Categories: dictums, abuse, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Parody of a Soldier
Eagerly joining the nation's martial order,
Becoming Uncle Sam's itinerant boarder,
Pledging to defend my country's border,
Against foreign malice and internal disorder.

Callously disregarding my own personal ambition,
Carelessly...

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Categories: dictums, introspection, war,
Form: Rhyme
Memories of Our Memory Lane
Dropping my heart to the level of oceans 
Once reflected living in life and memories of  adore,
Your hibernation drove my seasonal moods
And mesmerized my...

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Categories: dictums, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Other
Court Historians
The Court Historians'
official dictums
of special reports
and minor fiction from
deep in the archives
where they've been
resting with other lies
besides these, and other
generally accepted deeds
have just been released
for...

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Categories: dictums, history, social,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member A Prayer Greeting For My Poetry Soup Family
Let this decade of 2020
Be the decade of plenty!
May we all sow seeds,
Of many good deeds,
Not for personal gains,
But to relieve the pains,
Of many human...

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Categories: dictums, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Invictum
Against wild dogma and feathery wit,
Shall your sound idioms and wisdom
Outshine fickle folios of mortal sages;
Proving verity in its irrepressible form.

Your arresting dictums shall outshine
Obtuse...

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Categories: dictums, allegory, allusion, destiny, devotion,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member A Pristine Swan
Written: February 07, 2024
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It appears as if 
the...

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Categories: dictums, analogy, appreciation, culture, music,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things