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Premium Member Painful Perspectives: Bullying In America
Painful Perspectives
                Bullying in America

"About 77% of students have admitted...

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Categories: heavy as lead, school, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member On Criticizing Others
Rein in those opportunities to criticize
Think of all the good things to be said
Remember to see through others’ eyes.

Or sometimes simply resort to sighs.
In disagreement,...

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Categories: heavy as lead, anti bullying, how i
Form: Villanelle
Your Abyss
A muffled voice barely audible
his words are ice
cold enough to freeze the warmest heart
My Heart
As heavy as lead
slowly drowning me
pulling me into a never ending...

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Categories: heavy as lead, dark, deep, grief, identity,
Form: Free verse
Evanescence
There's a pounding in my head
My feet feel as heavy as lead
There's no point in explaining 
I just keep on contemplating... complaining...

This throbbing in my...

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Categories: heavy as lead, anger, angst, anxiety, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Hell and Back in the AM

When wracked with suff'ring even more,
     I all alone bemoan my fate,
as one who drowns in sorrows sore
   ...

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Categories: heavy as lead, conflict, dark, depression, hope,
Form: Bio



Liverpool
Liverpool

When night ends, the fog begins
Heavy as lead!
Shrouding the town:
Once grand
And home of grandeur.
The grand mansions
of old times!
Now in ruins: off white!
Harboring the ghosts of...

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Categories: heavy as lead, allegory, appreciation, assonance, city,
Form: Free verse
Andrea Dietrich Broke My Heart
Andrea Dietrich Broke My Heart


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Categories: heavy as lead, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Raven's Love and Hope Kept Alive
As night falls swiftly; no respite for a heart can be found 
She dares not invoke sleep, so she paces the floor in silence 
For...

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Categories: heavy as lead, fantasy, happiness, imagination, life,
Form: Sestina
The Hunter Has Been Hunted
The nation is thrown into grief.
Our national flag is flying at half mast.
Everyone is wearing a sack cloth.
The dangling axe fell on us.
And the mighty...

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Categories: heavy as lead, history, nostalgia, passion, people,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Monkey On My Head
I thought I was dreaming when my wife said
"Darling a monkey you've got on your head"
I laughed and I said" have you had a tot"
"I'm...

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Categories: heavy as lead, animal, holiday, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Hole In the Wall
Hole in the Wall…

I feel like crawling back into the hole
Back in time, back in space
Into realms of no emotion
When feeling is lost on an...

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Categories: heavy as lead, confusion, introspection, life, longing,
Form: Lyric
It Slithered
It Slithered
By Linda Hays-Gibbs

Darkness caressed it. I heard it before 
I saw a piece of it, a bit?
Black & shinny
But so, so cold
It froze the...

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Categories: heavy as lead, corruption, feelings, halloween,
Form: Ballad
My Quotidian Chant
This poem still mine
Heavy as lead they say
For me alone too weighty
You too have to share it
So take and keep
The piece of your choice.
It is...

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Categories: heavy as lead, africa, age, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As the Plague Makes Its Exit
An  illegitimate child of advanced technology we are told
That acquired the potency to destroy our health and gold
As you pack your stuff and ready...

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Categories: heavy as lead, bereavement, blessing, caregiving, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
The Shadow
The Shadow


The shadow 

It creeps, slithering down my chest

Before cracking it open

And laying down to rest

Insecurity wells up 

Along with tears

Shameful,

Grief stained 

I submit to...

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Categories: heavy as lead, deep,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs