The Journey Within
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Contest : J With Four Options
Sponsor : Constance La France
Date : August 9, 2025
The unseen glow of omnipresent divine light
floods my possessed essence, but I don’t perceive,
for I i...
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Categories:
blemishes, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Spiritual Gem
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The self-obsessive free-will seemingly dormant,
envelopes the possessed mind with an illusory veil,
obscures the ordained destination God decides,
l need to reach, for I’m subservient of His ...
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Categories:
blemishes, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Fulcrum of a Rose
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When the raspberry horizon
is curled up,
shaping caramel-lilac lips
of the cashmere kismet,
singing in a choir of cherry chivalry
and honey-glazed fireflies ~
those snowy stars...
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Categories:
blemishes, deep, emotions, life, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Extras
...Only when my costume’s
Been hissed at with steel
Do my garments ripple in small, stormless waves.
Only when my mask
Has been greased in pale mud
Do my blemishes blend with the sea of my face.
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Categories:
blemishes, character, engagement, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Futile
...I accept you for what you are, what you’re not and who you’ll become . I want to know your thoughts so we can ponder collectively. I want to feel the warmth from your embracement giving me comfort an...
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Categories:
blemishes, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
The Reason We Praise
...He asked, in Gethsemane, if there's another way
If sin can be recompensed without His blood to pay
But silence answered as He prayed
The world held its tongue, as if to say
"There is no other way...
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Categories:
blemishes, christian, good friday, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
superficial solace
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O river of moon roses
ferry me home....
I weep in quivering quiescence
like a weathered wild petal~
healing and hurting
in my p o e t i c reclu...
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Categories:
blemishes, angst,
Form: Free verse
I or we you them who'
...Who are we? Are we part of God? Is the hurt we feel reflective of His? Where is the greater good? Is it in
Politics? In commetce? In faith? Maybe your god is
Just a one dimensional aspect you obs...
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Categories:
blemishes, appreciation,
Form: Didactic
Beauty has an expectation
...Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is defined at first in a home.
It is i...
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Categories:
blemishes, allegory, beauty, culture, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Radiant Smile Of A Woman
...The smile of a woman in the spring is prettier
Than the dancing glow of the yellow tulips of the pond
As said the other: her face is embellished and polished
With honey syrup. She really has a cha...
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Categories:
blemishes, blessing, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Stillness in November
...Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into m...
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Categories:
blemishes, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral
Sally Has A Few Blemishes But That Doesn't Stop Her
...Still Holding My Own Poetry Contest
Margarita Lillico's
Sally's basin is broken and shattered
But her plumbing works is all that mattered
It was all a one-night sink
Tap in and out in a bl...
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Categories:
blemishes, happiness, men,
Form: Limerick
Petals of Pain
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Once upon a time,
when juliet was a jewel
of psychedelic phrases ~
steering rubies of romance
to distant shores,
where sapphire seafoam
had never kissed the silence of sands ~
the...
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Categories:
blemishes, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love Deep with a rose
...Loving you like the wind, blowing
Through my mind like a melody
The tune mesmerizing like that of hues
Too the rays shine without calamity
My precious mind thoughts lingering
I see a ponder ov...
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Categories:
blemishes, for him, heartbroken, relationship,
Form: Ballad
the priest
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wings,
wings,
wings,
An ongoing black screen,
A blandest morning, ,
,abundunt ///////////blunt & burnt
DAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
inadequate
, loo...
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Categories:
blemishes, allusion, books, city, emotions,
Form: Narrative
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