Jack 171
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Jack 171 27 May 2025
I’m Christopher Columbus, exploring my mind, because no one else has
I’m precise, when rambling on, towards the point
I’m simple, while being extremely complicated
I’m in...
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Categories:
concealment, anxiety, introspection, mental health,
Form: Free verse
The outside world makes me sick, suffocates me, dissolves my essence beneath my own skin
...The outside world makes me sick, suffocates me, dissolves my essence beneath my own skin,
Home seems like a distant illusion, reality—a thin veil ready to tear,
I beg for other shells to cover my b...
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Categories:
concealment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
BURN
...Wrench the pages from my worn hands as my voice shatters
Leave it aflame as the embers rise, my soul now scattered
Within the bounds of sanity, I try, try to claw and scrape
A restless spector of ...
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Categories:
concealment, allegory, anger, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Dear Music
...Dear Music
You search for me
And stretch my soul
To explore mountain summits never imagined
You touch my wounds
And navigate the pain
To discover a sacred space of peace and healing
You ki...
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Categories:
concealment, allegory, art, care, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Washed Ashore
...I die over and over—
between pages—a ghost
in a world more real than my
own—drowning in ink—
willingly washed ashore—
swelling, bloating breath.
Against my nature of concealment,
I cough ou...
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Categories:
concealment, addiction, conflict, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
...I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it fail...
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Categories:
concealment, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
In folds of silence, I delve deep, losing myself in the shadow of a day that refuses dusk
...In folds of silence, I delve deep, losing myself in the shadow of a day that refuses dusk,
Where halves find no place, and words are gold coins,
Heavy and whole, without concealment, without sh...
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Categories:
concealment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation
...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch
Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...
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Categories:
concealment, international, islamic, jewish, silence,
Form: Free verse
The masks we wear
...They taught us young, the fine art of concealment,
Threads of ideals tightly woven, hard to unbind.
What is perfection? What is normal?
These are the whispers we inherit, soaked in like brea...
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Categories:
concealment, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
The Serpent
...As you slither and slide in the eye of your mind.
So deceptive and cunning in a truth hard to find.
The venom you speak, poisoned with your fork tongue.
With no rhyme or no reason, with no right o...
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Categories:
concealment, betrayal, conflict, dark, hate,
Form: Rhyme
You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind
...You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind,
And you will be unstrung, in turn, from someone's necklace, like an exiled pearl.
Often, partings dress in mute gar...
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Categories:
concealment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ode To The 90s
...It was a time that I will never forget,
a time of grunge, flannel, and war;
A War on authority, a war on what we knew;
Electric colors and synthesizers are gone;
I remember the death of hair ...
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Categories:
concealment, emotions, feelings, perspective,
Form: Ode
Whisper
...we keep away from the racket
street noise, huffing and puffing
to whisper intimately, a lilt of catchy
its weight of dandelions seeded
an ebb and flow of what others thinly imagine
we whisper ...
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Categories:
concealment, bird, feelings, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."
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Categories:
concealment, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Room 251 13 th March 2024
...Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming en...
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Categories:
concealment, community, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
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