Conceptualize Poems

A Daughters Promise

...I promise I would be a good girl when I go out into the world, I promise to stay out of trouble and return home in a hurry. I promised never to play in the street or walk barefoot, I promise I would ...
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Categories: conceptualize, america, beautiful, culture, endurance,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberConsciousness correction

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Gradually it internalized.
Taking over it mesmerized.
Initially it demonized.

Intense pressure loomed.
A feeling I was doomed.
Festered a previous wound.

Forgiveness given in confession.
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Categories: conceptualize, angst, anxiety, sad,
Form: Tercet


Dumbfoundedness Still Prevails Three Weeks Later

...Dumbfoundedness still prevails three weeks later...
when held spellbound courtesy grifter

Flim-flam man left lasting emotional whiplash
his derelict perfected artifice
to hijack every last cent...
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Categories: conceptualize, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberConundrum

...I'll write only of my biggest fault,
            over it, I daily agonize.
My heart and soul are under assault
            I need to conceptualize.
            
I can't seem to conquer my dislik...
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Categories: conceptualize, angst, books, conflict, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

The World I Should Enjoy

...His wisdom did his happiness destroy,
Aiming to know that world he should enjoy;
And wit was his vain, frivolous pretense
Of pleasing others, at his own expense

              - John Wilmot, 2nd...
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Categories: conceptualize, angst, fate, places, poverty,
Form: Free verse


God Blessed Me

...God blessed me with no obstacles as my follicles were fertilized just right.
Giving birth to two beautiful sons, as I rejoiced when they kept me up at night.

Their first words, first laughs, firs...
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Categories: conceptualize, blessing, growing up, mother,
Form: Rhyme

The Green Fairy

...The Green Fairy

If I were a flapper girl sipping on a dirty martini with a jade cigarette holder, would you still love me? 

Singing a bluesy, swing song, while the gents in the room had a great...
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Categories: conceptualize, appreciation, art, celebration, crush,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Poem For Michael

...Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical magician
Because even I kno...
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Categories: conceptualize, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhere

...We see ourselves as that fire across the land;
a wall of words to wall out hurt or pain.
We create a story among ourselves to entertain,
experience awareness as a finger of approaching throb.
It ...
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Categories: conceptualize, baptism, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRemote Control Madness

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Where do remotes go, is what I,
in aggravation ask?
Mine must have feet and to find 
them is a most frustrating task.

Hiding under a magazine or my cat 
lying on it, hatching one li...
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Categories: conceptualize, funny, home, humor, technology,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberCourse Correction

...Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s one ball;
The ...
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Categories: conceptualize, leadership,
Form: Political Verse

Burn

...In the depths of hell, I burn, as the fire whispers in my ear, the pain begins to turn
The fire, like a pair of eyes, stops and stares at me reminiscent of how I used to be
How I would stay up all ...
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Categories: conceptualize, 10th grade,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberGlimpse

...Imagine complete annihilation, of all that you hold dear.
Think of a young child's life, full of nothing but fear.
Could you even envision a playground, with no children playing?
How about a room ...
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Categories: conceptualize, love,
Form: Rhyme

The Mirror

...The reflection of myself in a mirror
Is only the opposite of what people see.
A photograph, on the other hand, is right-side forward.
But a mirror and a photograph only show a flat picture,
And a...
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Categories: conceptualize, i love you, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Conceptualize

...Can you see 
Oh’ Can you see
What are you looking at 
What do you see

Can you see
Oh’ Can you see
What are you thinking 
What do you see

Can you see 
Oh’ Can you see
What’s happening ri...
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Categories: conceptualize, analogy, art, black african
Form: Ode

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