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Premium Member God's Kind of Poetry
An eagle finds the highest mountain to build its nest
And lays the first layer of nest with sharp objects
Such as thorns and stones for the...

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Categories: sufferings, appreciation, god,
Form: Free verse



Kindheartedness
i am kindhearted
because i been doged out before
i know of disapointments
when your heart hits the floor

i am kindhearted
because i believe in dreams
when someone has a...

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Categories: sufferings, inspirational
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: sufferings, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: sufferings, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: sufferings, life, loss,
Form: Narrative



Torn and Tattered Wings
Torn and Tattered Wings

It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize 
Hard into your heart

I...

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Categories: sufferings, inspirational, loveworld,
Form: Free verse
A Black Woman's Ambition
A black stone with diamonds inside
She shines but you would never know
They hit her but she never falls 
They whip her but she never breaks...

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Categories: sufferings, color, discrimination, slavery,
Form: Narrative
A Poem As a Tribute On Mothers Day Part 2
A Poem as a Tribute on Mother's Day Part 2

I was again charmed 
By the singing of Koyal’s song
As the Koyal was still singing her...

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Categories: sufferings, inspirational, mother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mothers Love, Inimitable and True
In refulgence of the heavens above, where you are,
Amidst blissful angels, O, you are my northern star,
As I ruminate of selfless love, fond memories impart,
Emanating...

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Categories: sufferings, mother, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearls of Mother's Great Love
the pearls from your eyes
are far more precious to me
than any treasure

your big sacrifice
nothing more to compare with
you’re my great hero

I owe you my life
mom,...

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Categories: sufferings, dedication, easter, love, mom,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Only Health and Joy
ONLY HEALTH AND JOY

I believe You Father God is in control.

Tell me more...
I want to know what else You want me to do;
I want to...

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Categories: sufferings, character, desire, god, journey,
Form: Light Verse
The Scatheless Soul
Unseen but ubiquitous,
Savage and surreal,
If not curated but contagious,
Annihilative and aerial,

Then lurking, now loose,
You are the silent stone sepulchre,
Tangling, tormenting; transient truce,
An asphyxiating, aggravating and...

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Categories: sufferings, courage, death, endurance, hope,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Rainbow On Other Side of Sky
Those who saw prairies bloom
Remember well the dams he built
Filling their abundant reservoirs
Growing harvests they cherished
Being the only bridge they had
Standing over turbulent streams.

When the...

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Categories: sufferings, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Love Falls
You, my love, you
Entrusted me into the burning arms of fervor,
Rested your knowing fingers upon skin ever glistened with tears
Graced the breath I dared to...

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Categories: sufferings, adventure, body, for him,
Form: Romanticism
Laments of a Widow
I looked in the mirror and all I could see was the pain of loss,
draped in jet-black dress with a veil of gloom on my...

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Categories: sufferings, sad,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs