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Ideas Trapped In An Inactive Mind
Ideas Trapped By An Inactive Mind

Your mind is hidden in darkness
Thoughts trapped in deep crevasses
Their screams echoes through deathly shadows
Attacked and strangled at their every...

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Categories: inactive, death, depression, sad, world,
Form: Free verse



Inactive Volcano
A broken indecisive shape roams the ends of town.
It is said that with his hat he covers up his misery. 
No one had ever seen...

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Categories: inactive, break up, depression, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Veil I Wear
A fire blazes behind the veil 
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This veil I wear
is not made of cloth
for no fabric could withstand
the incendiary passion
I command

It's self-imposed
not forced
no man's hand
would...

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Categories: inactive, analogy, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Thought Changer
Catching sight of unwanted reflection 
through my eyes I observe my murky mind
lifeless, inactive, defying action
just a blank canvas, raw, pure, unrefined,

desire to inject substantial...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inactive, beauty, change, color,
Form: Sonnet
Mastered Puppets
Mastered Puppets


Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval...

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Categories: inactive, children, humanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Seven ''Deadly'' Sins
Oh pride, pride, I do have pride
Pride of my country, pride in my siblings, and my nephews and niece
I am proud of me too, I...

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Categories: inactive, anger, emotions, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragons Eye
She is a scryer, a seer, prognosticator;
but no crystal ball for her...no.
She uses her blue eye instead;
a dragon’s eye.

Found in an inactive volcano,
former dragon’s lair;
three...

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Categories: inactive, animal, faith, future, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Storm
Morbid gloomy night in the middle of fall,
Sitting on the window waiting on your call. 
The skies are kicking and punching; 
Throwing a tantrum against...

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Categories: inactive, i miss you, lonely,
Form: Rubaiyat
Bleeding Homeland
The value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the...

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Categories: inactive, africa, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Fighting Demons
Walking past the ashes of what once was a dancing fire, 
 I stare coldly at the greying ground. 
Demons unleashed to uncover and expose...

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Categories: inactive, betrayal, evil, heartbreak, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Imagery
When are we gonna leave this mood
You keep dreaming under the roof of imagination that you are with this person
And for how long are we...

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Categories: inactive, dream, emotions, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Concrete
'i Must Make the Right Choices'
I must make the right choices, I must do this everyday
Physically I'm struggling but mentally I am ok
Inspiring my peers, i know this will be...

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Categories: inactive, anxiety, courage, depression, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Wishing Star
Cold dark night, 
I look up with fright. 

I see you flash,
Tearing the sky with a gash. 

Faster than lighting, 
Your transformation was striking. 

Something...

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Categories: inactive, faith, fate, love, stars,
Form: Couplet
Croaking,My Song
Deep in to the woods by spring
my quest by daybreak for croaking, 
frog croaking, nature enthusiast‘s song,
hit upon by the *** end, a puddle,
frogs, a...

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Categories: inactive, education, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Serpens Savium
I lay encased in darkness, in loathing, 
With twisted visions, my mind betrothing 
My dried lips with a lustful, moistened hue. 
In that blackness moved...

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Categories: inactive, allusion, analogy, animal, religious,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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