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Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......
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Daniel Henry Rodgers
Categories:
cowering,
beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form:
Lyric
Fate strikes upfront or with backender
...The serpent rears up with fangs bared, upfront and center. The scorpion's sting is poised to strike with a coiled, curled, cowering, concealed, backender sting in its tail. A life flips on......
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John Anderson
Categories:
cowering,
fate,
Form:
Free verse
No more
...No more Cowering behind the door, my son and I Praying the brutal fury would subside. In his little face, desperate not to cry, I saw the truth and could no longer hide The man I married had......
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Margaret Foster
Categories:
cowering,
abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Son of Sleep, Father of Thunder
...Weeping walls of heralded hallows, Sweetless seam of darkening shadows, Seldom son of sickening honour, Shall bring, shall bring, this darkening hour. So sweet, so sweet, this tallowing cower, ......
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Katrina Parkinson
Categories:
cowering,
birth, child, death, father,
Form:
Quatrain
Shaking
...I have a cup in my hand. Spilling it. Then I pour some into my hands. Laughing. So I get more. Sipping coffee from my palms. Beautiful. The journal. Pages. Folded up, turning into p......
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Angelica Tao
Categories:
cowering,
mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
terrified husband
...Crunch of her shoes fascinated the hallway House had been empty way too long Husband waited, expecting her to open the door Masked, dressed in black, intruder entered bedroom Husband reached fo......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
cowering,
husband, wife,
Form:
Free verse
My Creed
...My Creed I live - a child - Wrapped in feast days of divine whimsy When the world outlines itself In blue zircon sparkle A child of the season When glittering petals of snowflowers Rest on......
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Sam Kauffman
Categories:
cowering,
child, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Five Ku
...autumn ambles slowly shuffling through fallen leaves dodging Winter’s kiss crumpled pumpkins frown sparrows await a sunrise a barn cat stretches seagulls battle gusts crabs wander an empty......
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John Lawless
Categories:
cowering,
autumn, change, winter,
Form:
Senryu
Lonely
...With a face full of anguish he walks a lonely street at night. No room for tomorrow in his world. Today is just a fight. Sadness stripped the bones clothes hang upon his frame Heartache drips from......
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Andy Mears
Categories:
cowering,
loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
The Song
...The song is a gift from God to me And a present from my heart to yours. It’s meant to be shared. It’s meant to be free. It’s meant to break down closed doors. The song is worth nothing if no one ......
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Stephen Tefft
Categories:
cowering,
inspiration, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Duping the Demons
...I often wake up tired Too much cerebral housecleaning Dusting, filing, musing Feeding the demons They are less likely to act up If they are nurtured Recognized for what they are I no longer fe......
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John Lawless
Categories:
cowering,
fear, identity, scary,
Form:
Free verse
of feral thought
...I wander through a minefield Of feral thought Ever alert For the slightest hint Of hidden prey Trembling thoughts Shamed in their youth Cowering Beneath dried roots A shadow Out of sync wit......
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John Lawless
Categories:
cowering,
courage, self, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Once the Giant of Africa
...Once the giant of Africa, Now a nation lost, without a map. The people, once proud and free, Now trapped, in chains, without the key. The land, once green and lush, Now barren, as if struck by......
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Akinloye Gbajero Sunday
Categories:
cowering,
growth,
Form:
Other
SIMPLE SPIDER STORY
...SIMPLE SPIDER STORY Palsy poison spider bickering, binding, biting sparring, stinging, scampering creeping in crevices cocooned coded crooked cock-eyed Here, there, everywhere Scorpion......
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Ghairo Daniels
Categories:
cowering,
12th grade, analogy, color,
Form:
Alliteration
Dauntless
...Quote: 'Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution' (King John, act 5, scene 1, lines 48–53) - William Shakespeare Mutterings of awful shame (a child’s bones) vie for supremacy; yet here you ar......
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Jeanette Swan
Categories:
cowering,
character, courage, england, history,
Form:
Free verse
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