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The Edge of One and Other
... A candle burns beside the void, its flame a soft and stubborn cry— a whisper warm, the dark destroyed, but shadows bloom as sparks pass by. A beggar sleeps beneath a sign that sells a watc......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
chests,
grave, life, light, silence,
Form:
Rhyme
Underneath that Grand old Flag
...Natives interrupted Guns pointed to their chests Blown away like beautiful dandelions Into that sweltering sun Americans lollygag In their newly claimed land Under that grand old flag Slav......
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Luna Schwartz
Categories:
chests,
america, discrimination, prejudice, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Wrung Betwixt the Sky and Sea
... Blue on blue a sandwich of the sky and sea clutching on jealously to the distant horizon. They both join hands, laugh, and emit their features, creatures and apparitions. Streaming......
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John Anderson
Categories:
chests,
blue, day, sea, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Poppies burn like love under the sun that births longing
...Poppies burn like love under the sun that births longing, Let me ask for forgiveness, to touch your face with light, To be your sunbeam, to be a halo on your delicate brow, To caress your skin wit......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
chests,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The truth is that we are always children
...The truth is that we are always children, lost in the labyrinth of time with maps drawn from the dreams of the night, Children with scraped knees from life's falls, with veins like the roots of anci......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
chests,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Mind Powers
...What I’m saying. What is decaying. I have enough at home. Feeling sad as that dome. The office building over there. Is as strange as hair. There could be enough. But treasure chests ar......
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Angelica Tao
Categories:
chests,
mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
Along with the Thunder
... The air thickens, a velvet cloak drawn across a gasping sky. No sudden crack but a low groan first, from the belly of the coming storm. It's the earth's deep shudder, a premonition rippling ......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
chests,
nature,
Form:
Free verse
What more do I have to offer?
...Nothingness knows my name… It shames me even when i’m in the middle of everyone I lost all hope hopping for the kindest gestures I’ve crawled between growling creatures What more do I h......
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Tswarelo Mohohoma
Categories:
chests,
africa, anxiety, black african
Form:
Free verse
Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......
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John Davison
Categories:
chests,
anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled
...Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled, Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence, Souls enclosed in a shell of p......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
chests,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
chests,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
the big turtle
...The big turtle of Galapagos. Turtles, in general, are not good at communicating with anyone, at least those odd figures who talk a lot and sometimes sing The big turtle of the Galapagos does reme......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
chests,
1st grade, absence, adventure,
Form:
ABC
You Can’t Take What You Can’t Give
...I’ll handle the rejection as a merit in my spirit, as I did once when I was a kid. The townspeople will turn all of the sprinklers on when spring has made its arrival apparent on April Fools. The......
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Dilara Aydin
Categories:
chests,
absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
In a land where the shadows of fear dance on endless walls
...In a land where the shadows of fear dance on endless walls, Justice has melted away like a dream scattered by the cold night wind, Abductions slip through the dense fog like uninvited phantoms, Ci......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
chests,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
In your womb I burst
...In your womb I burst Passion holds my heart's desire, Lust and ravage, light my fire. Lovers embrace in Twilight's choir, Songs echo to the tops of spires. It starts with a simple kiss, Lip......
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darrell clark
Categories:
chests,
passion,
Form:
Rhyme
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