Is It All In Vain?
...Is It All In Vain?
Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory
Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story
Monumental consternations that speak beyond...
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Categories:
consonance, life,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye Poetry
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Oh poetry,
why do you not feel me.
I was once your poetic percolate,
the assonance to your consonance,
spilling in silver ink,
upon Earth's raw fibres,
but in your quest for perfection,
wa...
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Categories:
consonance, analogy, angst, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Prisoner of Poetry
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When my muse ruled
my conscience's compass,
waterfalls of rhyming rivers
revealed unspoken secrets -
long forgotten in my heart.
Exposing vulnerable verses
from vaults where vines
had w...
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Categories:
consonance, analogy, angst, betrayal,
Form: Alliteration
SONGS OF SORROW-MOURN
...He came holding a trumpet, dressed in white, with a glowing face that illuminated my shadow of doubts.
His smile was a catalyst of butterflies in my stomach, an awe feeling that left me in the cocoo...
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Categories:
consonance, depression, heartbreak, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
...In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
my qui...
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Categories:
consonance, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mellifluous Muse
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In my hunger,
I saw a hallucination of heaven.
From afar, visions of a golden glow,
lustered, lingering above a crowded crossroad.
This aura of agave aromatherapy,
left an amorous aroma of rom...
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Categories:
consonance, assonance, love, romance,
Form: Alliteration
The Great Indian Kitchen
...In my kitchen's grasp, where spices hop free,
Whispers of our memories, in each recipe.
Khichdi's humble grace, a bow to our roots,
In grains and lentils, tradition assent.
Herbal notes linger,...
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Categories:
consonance, culture, family, grandmother, hindi,
Form: Free verse
lyrical accessories
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punctuation walks
on eggshells
when
words like
water
falls
flow into nothingness,
soaked in syrupy syllables
behind veiled vowels
assonance is the t...
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Categories:
consonance, analogy, words,
Form: Verse
A Song to Die To
...There exists a song for you to die to
If you’d only open your heart to hear it
Its familiar melody greets you warmly, as if an old friend
Easing your attachments, releasing your fears
A progres...
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Categories:
consonance, death, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Let's Rhyme
...Marriage becoming a bondage, the couple longed for a riddance.
And through a divorce, finally got freed of their alliance.
Months passed on without any occurrence.
Slowly, into their soli...
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Categories:
consonance, abuse, break up, forgiveness,
Form: Monorhyme
Choose
...Choose unironically ripping off a film to be ironic
Choose now because then will never be enough
Choose puff puff puff puff puff pass because you’ll never have enough
Choose feeling guilty in the ...
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Categories:
consonance, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug,
Form: Free verse
Harmonious
...Harmonious is not a horrid homogenized concoction,
pulsed and blitzed in a blender mixer,
until the notes and flavors meld and gel set.
Instead it is a polyphonic pitch ensemble,
a juxtaposition ...
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Categories:
consonance, memory, song,
Form: Free verse
Shakespeare and Idioms
...“O’ Shepherd, a penny for your thoughts,
What a handsome couplet we would make!
Let’s seize the day and let’s make hay”
“Madam, have we metaphor?
Get thee to a nunnery *
For ...
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Categories:
consonance, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Affection
...For many years, I was an island,
Sailing along the troubled seas;
Not finding a place to land,
Longing for love and peace.
Then she came, and like a compass,
She gave me a clear directio...
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Categories:
consonance, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
...Onerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
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Categories:
consonance, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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