Schizophrenia
...I lived once in a land before the light
where shadows ruled and terror was the king
Sable dark did fall upon me every night
and flittermouse did brush me with their wing.
There was no day to sh...
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Categories:
complied, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Sonnet
Our Daughter's Swing
...A branch once held our daughter’s swing
By blue supporting ropes,
The yellow molded plastic
Holding her and all our hopes.
We pushed her as she laughed out loud
And always wanted more,
So we ...
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Categories:
complied, daughter, memory,
Form: Rhyme
internal voice
...
the voice spoke quietly from an inner sanctum
he had out-sourced for what seemed an eternity
muffled at first and barely audible it challenged
his deluded mischievous sense of corrupted reality
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Categories:
complied, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Was she meant to be broken?
...As far as ethereal creatures are concerned,
she fell somewhere in between
a wood nymph—
fragile and belligerent—
and a centaur—
untamable and resilient
she is a living, breathing juxtap...
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Categories:
complied, corruption, growth, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Feature, Flame
...Flame-featured twilight, illuminate fast!
Young are the dreams of humanity vast!
Age is a mystery museums kept.
Poets and prophets in agony wept...
Core of the harpsichord, pyramid-shaped.
Moorl...
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Categories:
complied, beautiful, creation, culture, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Conquered, Part IV
......She went with him and she had to, inside a knot of dread,
distracted by all of the things that she feared lay ahead,
disrobed with her mind in a haze, she would not meet his eyes,
complied mech...
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Categories:
complied, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
My children, your births kept me on my knees
...To all my children, may you please be aware!
I don't always show it, but I will always care.
Each of you have been a great gift to me.
Your births made this man happy as can be.
Each came to this...
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Categories:
complied, 12th grade, appreciation, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Canine Poet
...I sit still before the table,
mute, entirely unable
to employ the quill and ink.
I am so sad, I cannot think.
Master said "sit", and I complied.
Then, he clutched his chest and died.
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Categories:
complied, best friend, dog, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Accomplice
...Mr. Glock committed a crime
its accomplice got away
It could not speak for itself
the defense attorney
entered a plea of innocent
by reason of no limbs.
The judge set bail in bullets
I had an ...
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Categories:
complied, community, crazy, culture, i
Form: Free verse
The Final Solution II
...Let murderers subdue the guilt within
let not such burdens weigh upon your heart,
for bound by oath, your troopers are akin
to brothers that share equally in part.
‘Tis fiendish pride that fills ...
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Categories:
complied, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Healing Replied
...(Aniyah Smith's "Healing" had to be replied.)
She said, "Write me a poem instead."
I complied and I wrote of matters of the mind and of the heart;
Of the love that I gave to all that I got to ge...
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Categories:
complied, appreciation, confidence, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Human in love to err
...With one mind she kept weaving
With frailty, human will,
And left behind fatigued flaws,
But went on with love still.
Skies in utter sympathy,
As in lap lay her cause,
Her love shining apl...
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Categories:
complied, love, mother,
Form: Quatrain
The Cursed Lake
...He defied tragedy as he rowed
His sturdy boat towards the middle
Of the cursed lake where once
His wife fell into the icy water
And drowned. He could not swim.
Time passed and he learned to b...
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Categories:
complied, best friend, desire,
Form: Free verse
TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER
...TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER
Time is like a cosmic river running to a somewhere sea,
As wide as all existence, long as eternity.
Time to be or not to be, time either foe or friend. ...
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Categories:
complied, change, creation, history, space,
Form: Rhyme
Queen Bee
...With her queenly ego, she said, "My name is now Princess".
And so they complied ~ a loyal crew, whom by her words were led.
Then one day, she chose to change, and took the name of "Mrs."
She had a...
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Categories:
complied, women,
Form: Rhyme
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