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* Clean Slates
                           We are given clean slates.            
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Categories: slates, introspection
Form: Haiku
Blank Slates
Social creatures, blank slates
The sum total of each and everyone
We’ve been exposed to has left some trace
No matter great, fleeting or miniscule

The slate gets erased but remnants remain
To shape e’er so slightly
The impressionable brain
And season it e’er so lightly

Each kindness done
Each gentle touch
Leaves it’s mark
Be...

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Categories: slates, analogy, creation, emotions, environment,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Slates of Innocence
The eagle is hurting – 
His wings snipped,
his majesty vacated;
replaced by the rats
of pigeons: Just a gray
common color – what
is left of a flamboyant soul
once the spectrum of individuality
is gone – bleached out by
Marxist designers and
and pressers. They plan for
the people the garments 
of slaves...

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Categories: slates, humanity, perspective, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Blank Slates
Solemn cry full minds
beget ever soul spirits 
can we intertwine? 
global conscious clamoring 
all abiding Noble truths...

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Categories: slates, blessing, desire, emotions, heart,
Form: Tanka
Slates of Stone
Stony slates of stone nearby
Concreted beautifully on each other
Now mighty mountain afar...

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Categories: slates, 3rd grade, growth,
Form: Haiku
No More Immaculate Slates
I've given you immaculate slates 
With every blink of my eyes,
Only to watch you tarnish them with all my inequities.

 
I've tried to push you away
With more force then every exhale.

I've drained myself to continue the symptoms
Never to be offered a transfusion.

I've prayed for solace
Only...

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Categories: slates, familyme,
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry