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Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: nuns, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Doublethink Beliefs
  This Life

From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...

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Categories: nuns, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: nuns, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snowflakes Melting Before the Diadem
"Snowflakes Melting before the Diadem"

Winter is coming
and what then?
the dreams frozen 
snowflakes falling
we succomb 
tongues out waiting 
for manna, 
pills swallowed
for the diadem
needles of pine
instead...

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Categories: nuns, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Epiphany Rose
"The Epiphany Rose"

All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness 
drew out the poets 
in all the shunned
playing up and out 
their origami
word games

something like...

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Categories: nuns, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Thunder
The thunder sounds from far away,
wild wind runs before it carrying whispers 
of the coming storm.

Clouds are dark and gray
like cloistered nuns escaping hell,
and bursting...

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Categories: nuns, nature,
Form: Personification
Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died For
You knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuns, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form: Epic
You Can'T Hurt Me
Resounding echoes awaken the child
demons in the attic beckon unto him
stark fear grips his Vick's laden chest
shivers vibrate rusty springs of down

footsteps creak closer upon...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuns, introspection, life, sad, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tibetan Tears
My heart aches for
Your hearts that break. 
I shed tears mingling with 
Yours for the forgotten years;
The tortured monks and nuns…
For your people who suffer...

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Categories: nuns, abuse, angst, culture, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Sexy Nun
Sister, sister sitting there so sweet
Looking so virtuous, acting discreet.
Any male would eagerly bow at your feet
You have no idea of your allure, you're without...

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Categories: nuns, friendship, funny, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: nuns, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Dancing At a Temple
I am dancing
Twirling and whirling
Hands and face open to the sun
Lost in the infinite You
Draped in gauze and silks
Whirling and twirling
To the sounds of chants...

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Categories: nuns, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jaffna My Jaffna
JAFFNA MY JAFFNA
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All I could see from where I am now,
Jaffna my birth place,
Core of my heart.
So I took my thoughts six decades back,
And saw...

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Categories: nuns, first love,
Form: Free verse
Second Row To the Board
Second row to the board!

These words could not just be ignored
     I’m thinking but a vintage few
    ...

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Categories: nuns, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angel's Christmas Wish
There was a little girl named Angel. 
Who had such a beautiful spirit and 
was cute as she could be. Angel had
a heart of gold,...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuns, abortion, baby, birth, girl,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs