Precious Moments
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When the opaque nights were starless,
and the depressing days desolately cloudy,
the journey through the tortuous valley of life
wasn’t easy as it was meant to be.
When the wilted flowers...
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Categories:
complacently, analogy, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Crazed By the Process
...A creative process
disguised as a French Bulldog
has pooped in my mind-pot,
where I was complacently
growing small obscure weeds.
Muse me, or abuse me you poetry bug,
if you are a stinkbug, I...
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Categories:
complacently, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Chai Tea, Vanilla
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"Chai Tea, Vanilla: Writing it All"
We are a cauldron
steeped, stewing bitter,
unlike sweet chai tea
boiling
and bubbling,
our reality,
is hard
to swallow.
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Categories:
complacently, love, muse, words,
Form: Narrative
Find New Remedies To Rescue
...Constantly check your mind and bring changes
Never allow the same rule to stay there forever
Bring new ideas and alter your plans to better
A broad invitation to new thoughts ever helps
Find ou...
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Categories:
complacently, care, career, jobs,
Form: Blank verse
I Keep On Going
...When the opaque nights are starless,
and the gloomy days cloudy,
the journey through the vale of life
is not easy as it is meant to be.
When the wilted flowers turn pallid,
and the defoliated...
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Categories:
complacently, analogy, blessing, god, hope,
Form: Verse
The Activist
...Something happens in our lives causing us to question what we know.
We open our eyes and seek the truth learning more as we go.
The more we uncover the hungrier we get for more understanding,
but ...
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Categories:
complacently, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Wake Me
...Wake me if I've become stationary,
satiated with the ordinary.
Nudge me if I am complacently numb,
ungrateful and obliviously glum.
Unfold my eyes if they're mindlessly closed.
Wake me from ...
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Categories:
complacently, inspiration, life, perspective, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
Anthropomorphic
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If food for finer thoughts we did not crave,
If sense of purpose we did not apply,
If we did not critique how we behave,
If dormant laid Alert Judgmental Eye…
If float and bree...
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Categories:
complacently, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
We Are All Chess Pieces
...We are all queens or kings
Some are both; but only a few.
We know the king is the last to give up.
But the queen is more versatile.
She has all the moves, except the knight’s.
The bishops and ...
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Categories:
complacently, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Only Yesterday
...Gathered my belongings and I burned them as an offering
to who I might one day become if I could let them go.
I knew this gesture could be seen as one more case of posturing
but I’d grown tired of...
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Categories:
complacently, autumn, fire, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Inside the Teardrop
...Inside the teardrop I see elephants roaming;
Voices echo across the waters as if moaning.
The elephants take the form of a child’s size,
They invade the teardrop under any guise,
Coloring the wat...
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Categories:
complacently, imagination, nature, sorrow,
Form: Lyric
Feeding the Ducklings
...I lose myself by the placid pond
brimming with yellow and iridescent fowl!
Are they held together by filial bond
in that enchanting man-made bowl?
Amorous duo in a trance profound
drif...
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Categories:
complacently, bird, mom,
Form: Quatrain
Clown Car
...Diseased incubator of mutated humanity
A festering cesspool of rotten ideals,
And ancient plots of religious restraint
Or the liberation from.
Acidic with greed and selfishness.
Base and seduct...
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Categories:
complacently, analogy, future, imagery, judgement,
Form: I do not know?
Home
...Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Seem to form alone, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design by men
Drawn down the road by agents
In leather s...
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Categories:
complacently, business, community, creation, home,
Form: Free verse
Home
...Home
Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Form, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design, become cities
Drawn down the street, concrete solid
Buildings line up one by one
In the ca...
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Categories:
complacently, absence, age, home, identity,
Form: Free verse
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