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An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: utterances, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: utterances, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Not One Word
Silence
The sweet rhapsody of quietness
Sit back and savor
the music of the void,
where no dissonant voices are heard
It's so relaxing in this soundless realm;
break not the...

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Categories: utterances, dream, imagery, love, sleep,
Form: Verse
Geneva Has Evolved
"Fragments and crumbs of life, 
                   ...

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Categories: utterances, 3rd grade, child, dad,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1
Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees

Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities

Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios

Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires

Echo endophfins eulogize bullet...

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Categories: utterances, analogy, beautiful, body, corruption,
Form: ABC



Time For 'Enough'
Are we not tired yet?
When will we feel it is time?
Time to put our feet firmly on the ground
Call ‘enough’ boldly by its name
See -...

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Categories: utterances, community, leadership, political,
Form: Lyric
The African Cry
Mama Africa, 
Land of my ancestors' birth;
Source of all mankind, 
the once Shangri la of mother earth.

Stir up the spirit of the Mau-Mau in vibrato...

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Categories: utterances, angstfreedom,
Form: Rhyme
Melted Ice Cream Promises
You swear your word is solid
as a silver serving spoon
Well, why does it always feels like
another mis-spoken dog day afternoon
		Hotter than July
in the middle of...

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Categories: utterances, allusion, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Lowering the Union Jack, 1962
Like love ones come to view a parting ship
Before the anchor lifts
And its iron lips prow the salty waves
We journeyed from our busy day and...

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Categories: utterances, history,
Form: Free verse
Time
Time...
Time is a vehicle used to travel through life's passages,
Then once you have arrived at a point of understanding,
Your actions speak like deafening utterances,
Wisdom and...

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Categories: utterances, death, faith, life, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The High Road
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn...

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Categories: utterances, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
This Freedom
We created a dream…
A collage of triumphs hoisted high,
We spun a misty halo
And left 
brisk utterances hidden inside 
our pensive sigh

They redrew
a nexus of sun...

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Categories: utterances, freedom,
Form: I do not know?
Share Love and Light With a Vibrant Energy
I have just reached the end of the school year
giving my last lesson to the last group, as it were
Unlike before, not quite content with...

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Categories: utterances, 12th grade, blessing, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member upon arrival -
stillness …

save a twittering bird ...
hand on clarity, hardness -
fingers spread
opposing - jets of oily black octopus ink, (resembling)
decanted, manipulated, channeled
barbed circles coalesce
language as beauty?
as...

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Categories: utterances, beauty, fantasy, language, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gaslight Me
Gaslight me, baby.

I don't want to hear the truth. Tell me you love me. Say you need me. Promise you'll never leave me. Convince me...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: utterances, lost love,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs