I Will Not Stop
...He says –
“Your place is in the kitchen,”
I say –
“My place is wherever
my thoughts can reach.
No curtain will confine me,
no wall will surround me.
My words will become swords,
my steps wi...
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Categories:
confine, dream, feelings, history, me,
Form: Free verse
Dweller of Our Heart
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Written: August 02, 2025,
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There is a palimpsest etched in our bones,
Our dyspneic fire, a palingenesis hone—
A solar sprout rising from...
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Categories:
confine, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Eclipse
...In the shadow of an eclipse, where worry takes its flight,
The burden of strife can weigh you down,
Yet in each moment of pain, in the depths of sorrow’s night,
A spark of sunshine glimmers,...
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Categories:
confine, hope, hurt, light, pain,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely Bird
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after I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, by William Wordsworth
I drifted in the sky as a lonely bird,
from the dust of dreams I arose.
The sigh of desolate heart I heard
emanate from th...
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Categories:
confine, analogy, freedom, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Dysmorphed
...I, looking in the mirror yesterday,
witnessed distorted eyes replacing mine;
and, too, the lips and nose, as if a sign,
seemed bent crooked, misaligned in some way.
And, as I, squinting, gazed ...
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Categories:
confine, body, depression, gender, identity,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Flower Chide I, The First Wilt
...Before soil met seed or the sun claimed the skies,
There bloomed Nefarys, veiled from mortal eyes
Here, blossoms rose from memory’s breath,
Unbound by season, untouched by death.
Tulip leapt bo...
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Categories:
confine, earth,
Form: Narrative
The Poet
...Once upon a dreary time
A boy set out to note a rhyme
Pen in hand with paper lined
Prepared he was to share his mind
But thoughts lay barren and confined
Without sense, reason, or rhyme
Suffere...
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Categories:
confine, angst, confusion, heartbreak, language,
Form: Rhyme
I’m Never Right
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Oh, I ask, is it my appearance or rather to say my looks,
Or is it my stature that has gone according to the book.
I wonder if it’s my ag...
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Categories:
confine, endurance, integrity, parents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
...review past patterns which bind and confine ~
liberate soul, with pulse of love align...
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Categories:
confine, introspection, love,
Form: Couplet
DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY
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A spark ignites, a question form,
A curious mind that breaks the norms.
It seeks, it stirs, it will not sit still.
A restless fire, a growing will,
From page to thought, from though...
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Categories:
confine, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Rematch Tomorrow 8AM
...The day passes, an idle hitchhiker,
Thumb half-heartedly protruding
A posture half begging, half daring
Go ahead… seize the day
Good luck with that challenge
For daylight slips through the fin...
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Categories:
confine, life, work,
Form: Free verse
In the deep silence of the evening, I remember her needs hidden like a pearl in the shell of time
...In the deep silence of the evening, I remember her needs hidden like a pearl in the shell of time,
the same as yours and mine, never forgotten, never postponed by the wind of oblivion,
a dream that...
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Categories:
confine, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Walking Through The Veil of Hate
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I walk through life like a shadow unseen,
Because they treat me like I’ve never been.
No chains can bind me, no laws confine,
Yet they whisper doubts as if they’re mine.
Why do you fe...
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Categories:
confine, betrayal, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Believe
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I Believe
I believe in the teachings of Jesus
and the power of loving my neighbor.
I see us all as children of God—
my Creator, the Source of all life.
But I don’t confine my faith to a si...
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Categories:
confine, allah, blessing, christian, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Quiet Echo
...I have met you in my mind,
You have been a reflection of my desire.
I have worshipped you in my favourite mirror,
You have been a quiet echo in others’ eyes.
I never judged you inside the canva...
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Categories:
confine, desire, extended metaphor, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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