When Money Becomes Power
...I have known the hollow silence of empty hands,
once full of gold, now dust and fading strands.
I gave my heart in seasons bright and fair,
helping those in need, with love laid bare.
But when ...
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Categories:
complicating, humanity, inspirational, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Drisstille complicated things
...See I know you go home to him
When think you should be
Coming home to me
I try Lord knows
I try
Why am I asking myself
You deceive him when you say
You love him
Are you taking me for grant...
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Categories:
complicating, allusion, boyfriend, devotion, humanity,
Form: Ballade
A Dream of Higher Powers
...
The other night
Visiting in a dream a foreign land
We waited in expectation
The arrival of a group of alien dignitaries
Somehow involved in guiding the culture.
When they approached across ...
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Categories:
complicating, allegory, dream, humorous, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Mankind
...Prologue:
To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch
this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such.
And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment
of whic...
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Categories:
complicating, birth, corruption, death, environment,
Form: Ode
Words
...
Words
pompous, overblown
complicating, decorating, fluffing
Read, Research, Culture, Modification
clarifying, stripping, owning
d...
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Categories:
complicating, emotions, feelings, words,
Form: Diamante
Relationships
...In the dance of love, man and woman unite,
Harmony sought, yet shadows invite.
The devil despises when two hearts align,
For wonders emerge when love intertwines.
Fierce battles waged, argument...
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Categories:
complicating, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Epic
Relationships
...In the dance of love, man and woman unite,
Harmony sought, yet shadows invite.
The devil despises when two hearts align,
For wonders emerge when love intertwines.
Fierce battles waged, argument...
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Categories:
complicating, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Epic
Relationships
...In the dance of love, man and woman unite,
Harmony sought, yet shadows invite.
The devil despises when two hearts align,
For wonders emerge when love intertwines.
Fierce battles waged, argument...
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Categories:
complicating, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Epic
Relationships
...In the dance of love, man and woman unite,
Harmony sought, yet shadows invite.
The devil despises when two hearts align,
For wonders emerge when love intertwines.
Fierce battles waged, argument...
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Categories:
complicating, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Epic
Scared of Living
...Echos in time
Keep calling my name
Talks back with such negativity
Bad memories play over and over
Good memories on pause
Or even forgotten
I can't remember back to a time I was happy inside
I...
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Categories:
complicating, beauty, fear, scary,
Form: Free verse
Woman of Substance
...She knows when to say yes and when to say no
She gives you so much, you keep asking for more
She manages her own home, kids and money
Straight talk, her words are not dripped with honey
She knows...
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Categories:
complicating, women,
Form: Couplet
Lost
...I’m lost.
It’s nothing new, I just sit around and overthink, overcompensate, over complicate, overwork the brain but it has its limits.
I see now what I do, how I am, who I become when I’m lo...
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Categories:
complicating, anxiety, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Shall Pass
...Tired.
So tired be she.
She wanted to flee the world.
But air got wind of it
and tornadoed the news
to friend and foe
Complicating all,
madly blowing shut windows,
loudly slamming...
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Categories:
complicating, courage, faith,
Form: Free verse
World of Choices
...World of choices,
people of different colours and choices
poets write different perspectives for their audiences,
Sometimes it depends on the locations of the poets.
Someone who is writing ...
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Categories:
complicating, africa, encouraging, truth, world,
Form: Free verse
An Alluring Flower
...How fortunate do I feel,
when I think of my mother, deriving
my name from the classic story
by Kalidasa, the greatest Bard in Sanskrit -
The story about the Princess of Malawa,
who happened to b...
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Categories:
complicating, daughter, dream, flower,
Form: Free verse
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