Modern Day Macbeth
...A mother walks through bullets for bread
A child through shellfire for a sip of grain
Young girls bleed in corners quietly
Toddlers die in mothers' arm from thirst.
This is the plot, world is w...
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Categories:
bestseller, evil,
Form: Free verse
Disorientation
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"There are souls like stars that dwell apart."
Quote by _ Spencer Michael Free (1856-1938)
My life changed when my sister died on ...
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Categories:
bestseller, childhood, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Afterglow
...I was an artistic, floral designer, intoxicated by the sweet-smelling blooms,
Like magenta butterfly swarms, at a standstill, intoxicated by floral fumes.
Gold days were full of my bloom designs,...
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Categories:
bestseller, beautiful, career, flower, happiness,
Form: Couplet
This Book
...You are the author of this book
The words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters
Write well, and fear and procrastination do unhook
So this book, your book, can dwell hereafter
Write with inte...
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Categories:
bestseller, adventure, appreciation, blessing, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Famous After I'M Dead
...I go online so I can see my sales,
how many books did I move in the night?
These projects that I gave six whole months to,
the stories that give meaning to my life.
But the bar is low, sometimes ...
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Categories:
bestseller, celebrity, creation, how i
Form: Rhyme
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
bestseller, adventure, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
New Bestseller
...There is a new best seller book you really ought to try:
“10 Steps to Living Endlessly” by Ida Wanda Dye....
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Categories:
bestseller, books, humor, life,
Form: Couplet
The Lovers of New York
...
the rain that drowned the sidewalks
dampened down the night-time heat
creating steam through manholes
from the pipes beneath the street
and set against this backdrop
of a vibrant city beat
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Categories:
bestseller, america, love, new york,
Form: Monorhyme
Attempt To Cheer and Rally Sagging Spirits of Karen Windle
...Before golden opportunity
(goes no argh hue mint
the way of Long John Silver)
doth fade and dwindle
not necessarily cuz the missus
did (NOT) bribe and swindle
an ambition (for nor rhyme nor re...
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Categories:
bestseller, 12th grade, appreciation, cheer
Form: Free verse
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
bestseller, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Time Has Told
...time has told
as days grow old
either shy or bold
people's hands unfold
to show who they really are
and some are left with scars
some belong behind prison bars
others gaze and medita...
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Categories:
bestseller, america, betrayal, change, corruption,
Form: Quatrain
Sariputra and Void
...Once Sariputra was attending a sort of book event: a dozen of young writers, men and women, met up on Wednesday of every week and read each other texts upon an actual literature. Sitting across a ver...
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Categories:
bestseller, beauty, humor, literature, writing,
Form: Narrative
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxvii
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXVII
IF you pull a long repentant face
It avails you to pull it where no one sees you pray
For forgiveness though not after being caught outright losing face
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Categories:
bestseller, character, destiny, innocence, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Buying a Bestseller
...At the crowded book store
People are lining up
Eying an autographed copy
Of a newly released bestseller.
Enthusing front of the line
Are the scholarly readers,
Critics, and the like:
Aspirin...
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Categories:
bestseller, books, people,
Form: Free verse
Mythical Thinking
...Mythical Thinking
In the beginning there had been the word…
She had spoken wisely and made believe
had been a poet all her life creating fiction
scripted parables about a primordial bang
Now...
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Categories:
bestseller, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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