That's Not Safe
...Like a fear-filled cactus bud, I keep my heart shut.
Like prey before predators, I become wary.
Fearing myself, I hide myself within my hut.
Unknown loads, involuntarily, I carry.
I flatter, in...
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Categories:
corrode, anxiety, betrayal, confidence, courage,
Form: Sonnet
The Clouds of Mount Everest - may you ever rest
...Flapping without flying.
It feels okay.
Your scales of fur corrode.
A foul, but sweet, but warm, but damp...
Scent of something new.
You're red and blue tomorrow,
Yellow, pink, today.
But fo...
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Categories:
corrode, bereavement, cat, death, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Rubicon Crossing
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Written: May 06, 2025 for contest by Edward Ibeh
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Like kernels, the day's enigmas start to unfold,
The green folk are s...
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Categories:
corrode, adventure, history,
Form: Rhyme
What am I?
...I grew from a thought
and yet remain unbound
I’m a bomb to man
from the day he was born,
never was his friend
so, I rob him of his youth
health and hope.
Yet, he says
I heal all wounds
and a...
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Categories:
corrode, age, birth, death, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Army of One
...Alone I drift, a vagabond psuche, haunted by daughter's lifeblood and husband's self-exploded mind, a diseased landscape. Frantic fingers dance on the page as I conjure reason's faint glow, a despera...
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Categories:
corrode, dark,
Form: Free verse
ORGANISED CHAOS
...Of the created lot, Am the meandering one,
A mass of battling red,
Am always on a steady diet
Ever since the mothers bred.
Chemicals galore in profound reacts
When devils dare to tread,
The f...
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Categories:
corrode, allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Hitchhiker
...This highway's mine, goodbye to Jayne,
so long, farewell, Virginia Plain,
strife was yesterday's heavy load,
life is tomorrow's open road,
it's time to hitchhike once again.
Heading where song...
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Categories:
corrode, america, goodbye, history, new
Form: Rondeau
locket
...You keep my heart locked away around your neck
It's value is only worth it to you, so please be gentle
Do you wear it as you rest your eyes to sleep
Or do you keep me locked away in a b...
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Categories:
corrode, 12th grade, anxiety, break
Form: Free verse
Unhinged Power
...Unhinged power grasps, its hold so tight,
Unyielding, unchecked, chains corrode the soul.
Distorted truths, concealing in plain sight,
In shadows lurk, devouring the whole.
What slips unheeded,...
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Categories:
corrode, history, perspective, philosophy, power,
Form: Free verse
When An Empty Soul Echoes
...In the depths of solitude's unyielding grip,
An exposed nerve, raw and stripped,
The haunting echoes of trauma's refrain,
Consume the heart, drowning in pain.
Yearning for solace, yet cloaked i...
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Categories:
corrode, absence, depression, life, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Who To Retire
...A boss can The Vigorous retire
While the latter is still a live wire,
His arms still sinewy, his feet sound tires:
The one who vibrant kids sires...
A boss can send home his firm's tears' dryer...
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Categories:
corrode, allusion, career, cry, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Fame
...Fame, a flickering flame,
A desire from which we cannot abstain.
For some, it's a game,
For others, it's a means to sustain.
The taste of success,
The glittering lights,
Is but a transient ca...
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Categories:
corrode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Classicism
Endearment
...My bones corrode
From the acidity of your endearment.
Stay away.
Keep your distance.
I am already decaying
From the affliction
Of all the tenderness I carry
For you....
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Categories:
corrode, absence, care, desire,
Form: Free verse
Why Poetry
...Happy National Poetry Month, Poetry Soup...
Poetry should not be considered a luxury
Only to be enjoyed by the privileged few…
The cultural and cerebral elite.
Poetry need not be weighed down...
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Categories:
corrode, poetry,
Form: Free verse
What Comes Out of Wall of Time
...The chorus of faceless senators in a mass of a church with the great black light opening. Becoming what is under the cloak of reality. the belly of the beast carrying the church with wood moldy corro...
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Categories:
corrode, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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