Reflection in the Mirror
...
In the quiet morning light, for the first
time, I truly gazed into the mirror,
What I saw was unrecognisable,
I must confess I was close to it but
had to draw closer still,
I was surprised...
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Categories:
childishly, change, hair, old,
Form: Free verse
Good Times, Bad Times
...We live in good times
(by most historical standards)
Yet more accurately these are the best of times,
and the worst of times, as not only is there everything
imaginable happening, but
every up m...
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Categories:
childishly, anxiety, emotions, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative
Janus Face
...Life is a Janus-faced Siren—
willfully whimsical, childishly adamant,
It is death’s nemesis, the soul’s swan song
a black widow, a scheming enchantress,
a mirage, an elusive chimera!
Not every...
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Categories:
childishly, life, time,
Form: Free verse
The Trouble With Love
...The trouble with love is that it ends
the thing about love how does it begin
one sided or shared, shy or no fear
love can be trouble, love can be trouble
Why must we fall into it
or lose it be...
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Categories:
childishly, love,
Form: Rhyme
Innocence
...Why, as we grow older
do we lose the innocence of youth
are ageing and innocence mutually exclusive
is it because innocence affords us no protection
leaving us defenceless
easy victims
and so w...
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Categories:
childishly, innocence,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Lonely Walk In Chelsea
...A walk in Chelsea
Regret, like a frost, upon my heart
For Chelsea, a love that I had to depart
With hindsight I can clearly see
In pain and anger, I acted childishly
For the road not taken, t...
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Categories:
childishly, for her, heartbreak, i
Form: Free verse
The Sacred Virtue
...Just like a germinating node,
so are the childishly preened pudenda load.
Ecstasy in fluffs of dew are bestowed
as croissants for neonate are getting bold.
Silky gazelle of a nymphet endowed w...
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Categories:
childishly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Learning
...I’m learning a lot, dating Peter. For instance, I have a whole new awareness of how clueless older Americans, like people in their mid-twenties, are about things in the modern world.
I think Peter...
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Categories:
childishly, boyfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Titanic
...I wasn't good enough anyways,
I was overly sensitive and dramatic
Always treating every little complication as though it was tragic
Foolishly ignoring the reality of life in the name of being op...
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Categories:
childishly, heartbreak, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter Daughters
...Here is a truth as hard as honed steel,
It cuts like a knife but rolls like a wheel
Approaching with promise of nearness and love,
But slicing as deeply as hate from above.
It severs not the conn...
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Categories:
childishly, betrayal, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Views of Life
...Is this a world of lies and deceit?
Is deception the norm of the human life?
Must heartache reign for infinity?
Is living a lifetime a nightmarish hell?
Where can I find the solace I need?
When ...
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Categories:
childishly, life,
Form: Free verse
A Red Eyed Cop To a Driver
...So, why didn’t you stop
After seeing a red-eyed cop
You know could ask you to hurriedly drop
And have you childishly begin to hop
Or ludicrously bop
To still hard blows wire to your face while...
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Categories:
childishly, abuse, anger, character, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
The Damaging Testimonial of Billy Burn
...To whom it may concern,
Wishing to more learn
About the bearer, our ex-student,
He was a Great Sympathizer of ‘The Imprudent’…
Worldly wise and to a fault bright,
He was to become a familiar s...
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Categories:
childishly, education, fashion, freedom, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Mind
...*3 haikus*
I am enjoying
this dull time - this decayed life
of extinguished hopes
Each sublime sunrise
finds my morning mind childishly
wishing for freedom
If wishes had power
If young ...
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Categories:
childishly, 11th grade, endurance, freedom,
Form: Senryu
Diamonds Aren'T Forever
...There she undergoes,
A gamut of emotions
All at once-
“Don’t need
Diamonds and rings,
And all those
Expensive things.
Another anniversary,
Again all that hypocrisy.
Lies and pretence
Can se...
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Categories:
childishly, angst, anxiety, betrayal, first
Form: Narrative
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