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Premium Member Materialistic
Greed sparks
the ravenous cravings
of a secular mind.

With insatiable hunger 
their spirits covet
desiring beyond need.

Insensitive humans
cannibalize their brothers
with no end in sight.

Where is compassion 
when legalities...

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Categories: materialistic, society,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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Categories: materialistic, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Late For Tears
Oh, my brother..
I can see storms causing havoc in your eyes.
All you can do is stare,
seeking comfort from a tombstone.

Beautiful marble cannot reach out to...

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Categories: materialistic, absence, angst, death, mum,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Take Me To Nirvana
Free me from servitude of constraining boundaries
Guiding life’s journey, questing meadows pristine,
Beyond void of nothingness, afar hills of misery,
Rescuing from oblivion, from doorways of abyss,
From...

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Categories: materialistic, emotions, fantasy, peace,
Form: Verse
Bilocation

   "A crescent dahlia floats, birthed in decay ~
            midst emerald ferns,
...

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Categories: materialistic, deep, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



We Are All Strippers On a Stage
We are all strippers on a stage
choreographed of broken dreams.
Our materialistic schemes
drown values in whiskey bottles.


We are all strippers on a stage
who put down our...

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Categories: materialistic, introspection, life, philosophy
Form: Quatern
Seraphic Embers

I've always 
wandered in 
venus' orbs, 
searching for
the star-seed 
of my spirit that
has forsaken
it spiritual 
sanguinary and 
caged every 
fluorescent flicker 
in a sculptured
sanctuary of...

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Categories: materialistic, deep, destiny, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Private Conversation
Father it’s me again. It’s been too long between talks
Days, years: restless lost wasted years
Choices made based on greed, pride, arrogance and misbegotten dreams
It’s difficult...

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Categories: materialistic, faith, introspectionlost, lost, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgotten
Our lives are consumed 
With vice and pleasure
Self-absorbed with blinders
And avarice for treasure
The majority indifferent
To the plight of our parents
Or the generation before them
With their...

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Categories: materialistic, community, discrimination, education, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: materialistic, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Society's Pomp
Often, people think themselves as objects
like remodeled decor hyped for exhibition...
they wear glittered masks and live
in the affirmation of others through false pride,
consumed  by...

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Categories: materialistic, society,
Form: Free verse
The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She...

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Categories: materialistic, analogy, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Spiritual Biography
Once addicted to carnality opium’s ecstasy
My flesh reigned with selfishness-excellency…
…But God, so merciful in His clemency
Transformed me to acknowledge His satisfaction-sufficiency.

Once exalted upon vain glory’s...

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Categories: materialistic, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Material Things Can Not Replace Love
There are certain things you see
That are bright and glittery
Shiny, fancy and enticing
But they are not free, the pricing
Of these items is to high
They are...

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Categories: materialistic, addiction, desire, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
You Are the Painter Aswell As the Canvas
Do you have any idea how much material your entire being holds? 
I'm not talking about the materialistic (of the world) things many have their...

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Categories: materialistic, art, beautiful, color, creation,
Form: Personification

Book: Reflection on the Important Things