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A vulture and owl
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Categories: wastelands, addiction,
Form: I do not know?



Broken perspectives
There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot...

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Categories: wastelands, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Black Diamond
On the border of the obscure wastelands,
In the depths of shadows and torments,
Far beyond the land of Never Was, Never Will
Is a place where I...

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Categories: wastelands, art, beauty, dark, dedication,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Celebration of Wind and Fire
Celebration of Wind and Fire 

Celebrate the unseen face of God’s eternal Spirit
 Embracing all before creating light;
Action word of the eternal dance
 Hovering over...

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Categories: wastelands, creation, dance, fire, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Blacked Heart
Blacked Heart


Within the blackness blissed lies the love that has been missed
For within the miasma mist a darkish deprived heart does resist
Of the silenced sounds...

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Categories: wastelands, abuse, anxiety, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme



Life is a Song
Life is a song,
incomplete, yet soothing—
lullabies lulling the world to sleep
with its balladic lilt, gently swaying 
to the depths of its nomadic 
syncopation.

Where I can...

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Categories: wastelands, dance, dark, life, song,
Form: Free verse
The Final Journey
I know I’ve made a thousand journeys,
withstood the tests of time and foe
shed the dust and shouldered worries
struggled onward against the flow.

Unconforming, seldom bending
straight the...

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Categories: wastelands, adventure, courage, freedom, identity,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member History's Greatest Miracle Play
History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s...

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Categories: wastelands, jesus,
Form: Narrative
You Never Died
O Leader! O Savior! O Heart so Brave!
Words falter to honour the path you've paved.
The nation's core, now fortified with zeal,
We stand to combat, with...

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Categories: wastelands, bereavement, eulogy, obituary, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are...

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Categories: wastelands, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Abominable Alliance
Thru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen...

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Categories: wastelands, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Tree I Am
Brave people 
I grow...on...
Weeds surround me...
Beads falling playfully...
Rivers, like vines, entwine...
Roots of moist seep in so fine

Because I cried
In this wilderness
I grow, I grow (x2)
Happily,...

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Categories: wastelands, betrayal, change, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
All Is Now
The universe of fear emotes a broken feeling,
 loveless wastelands could hardly be called home.

Conscious rising dreamscapes, illusory revealing:
 the terrified emperor sits naked on...

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Categories: wastelands, introspection, universe,
Form: Couplet
The Ruins
From afar only
I have surveyed the things once known,
now decayed and crawling
slowly, yet inexorably,
toward a time I’d rather not see.
I have not stood with you
in...

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Categories: wastelands, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
Drop Cloth Dreams
Drop cloth dreams  


It has been found that given enough time
failure will find this destined loser
lurking in gallery tints
and watercolor fault lines

semi gloss replaced...

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Categories: wastelands, art, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs