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The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light impairing sight 
in spaces dark and shallow.
Stone walls where lies are scrawled 
by murky phantom shadows.

One breaks free on frail...

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Categories: impairing, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
No

Don't be ruthless in communication
be it written or verbal, teacher told,
never say 'no' as wise people have told.
Feel the impact in brain with negation.

A 'No' word releases dozens of stress
producing chemicals in brain forthwith
interrupt normal brain functioning with
impairing logic, reason; complete mess.

Yet, we fail to...

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Categories: impairing, stress,
Form: Sonnet
Remedy
Poison
wicked, pernicious
intoxicating, impairing, destroying
abuse, death, immunity, life
saving, healing, purifying
redemptive, assuasive
Remedy...

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Categories: impairing, abuse, death, health, life,
Form: Diamante

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Crime On a Gun
a     Crime is but a vengeful word that splits us open like a cadaver impairing our
                '''Normal routine with vengeance greed impure thoughts that leave our...

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Categories: impairing, fear,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Universal Truth
UNIVERSAL TRUTH 


Universal Truth,
Divine essence of eternity’s will, born even 
Before the time,
Creation’s unfailing architect, guardian of 
Transcendental law,
You trace the path of every being, that obediently 
Has to follow 
For your design to complete, its purpose
To accomplish, 
Nothing for you is higher, nothing for...

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Categories: impairing, introspection, nature, truth,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Cancer
CANCER

I was ten when you invaded our family, when my sixty year old grandfather
died with lung cancer and at that time I never really understood it; but knew
it was a deadly disease for two women closed to our family died earlier with
breast cancer and saw...

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Categories: impairing, cancer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Siddharta Gautama Buddha
Siddharta Gautama Buddha
born with a silver spoon in his mouth, tired of reading sutra
awakened to the fact, fine clothes were uncomfortable, impairing 
sat under a tree, contemplating the spiral of existence while navel staring...

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Categories: impairing, faith,
Form: Clerihew
Memories
Memories, Oh! Memories,
Colossal pain, escorts you.
Memories, Oh! Memories, 
Hard I try to expunge you.

You befriend my past, 
And make me cry.
Impairing my hopes, 
My future you spy.

Memories, Oh! Memories,
Forget me, and let me rest.
Memories, Oh! Memories,
Leave, let me live with zest





Tuesday, November 25, 2008....

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Categories: impairing, depression, sadme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Help Me
God
Need
Your help
Feeling lost
Somber clouds loom mind
Clouding and impairing the thoughts
Seeking divine light, shining with a powerful force
Experimented only after feeling despondency in maximum expression









4-23-2016...

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Categories: impairing, depression,
Form: Fibonacci
A Fall
Life is like a pitfall,a quick pull to out the fall;
There is one way other than all;
Direct your life, you will find a wall;
Start digging it up, it will help you crawl;
It will take sometime, but will reach you above all;
Then you will wonder, why...

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Categories: impairing, career, confidence, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vapor Sea
Under the canopy of the dark forest
mist swirls winding around the trees
impairing vision as it clutches all in sight
it moves hauntingly as it winds and clings
creating eerie shadows as it creeps
reflecting lights shade it bends and twists
a musty mildew aroma wafts
footprints no longer mark the...

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Categories: impairing, lost, nature,
Form: Free verse
Inner Thoughts
As I sit here and gaze upon the vast ocean of infinite stars I ask myself are we ever really alone... Or do the souls and spirits of our lost loved ones look down on us in agonizing pain, pain and sorrow not for themselves...

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Categories: impairing, humanity, i am, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
What Was the Human Error
Was it the death of the child,
playing in the busy street,
where traffic frequently exceeds speed limits,
in neighborhoods like this one,
even in summer evenings when children gather
with stick and ball?

Or was it the single mother,
who allowed her child to play outside,
without adequate supervision,
on an evening as...

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Categories: impairing, society,
Form: Free verse
Demon's Odium
Extending far beyond the darkest night
Passing through deep gullies and narrow holes
Sweetly impairing him from deep within
Cry of a shattered soul echoing miles away

Within a cold glass-room, helpless
Spiraling deep down into despair
Spent days, heartless, locked in blankness
Eyes of a shattered soul feeble with unrest

Once there...

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Categories: impairing, depression, loss
Form: Lyric
Pouncing Wind of the North
Pouncing wind of the North, what's the unexplainable folly 
for enacting a surly deed?
Stripping my stately pines
of their verdant leaves,
give back their esteem!


Impetuous is your haste,
immutable and imperative,
impairing these sentinels
that guard the feeble ones,
but you immolate and leave!


Pouncing wind of the North, what's your miscreant...

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Categories: impairing, nature, seasons
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry