The Being Who Never Leaves
I never learned to look at shop windows
without searching for the walking shape of your footsteps.
The umbrella abandoned beside a rusted bicycle
resembles you more than any living body.
On the wet pavements, an old woman feeds the pigeons
with the same patience you once had
for all the things I forgot.
Someone plays Bach in an alleyway,
and the notes...
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Categories:
deep, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
To My Children A Morning Visit With GodMy children, it's so very hard to explain,
How or what you need to do.
To connect to the One sitting on His throne,
Creator of me and you.
I'm sharing my actions and experience.
That yielded results for me.
Like a fingerprint yours may not be the same.
But you must show a desire to see.
I wake up early, set the...
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Categories:
beautiful, blessing, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly DallyCaustic memories dissolve on my tongue
Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine
Cause me to choke on putrid saliva.
Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison.
Distorted birdsong hums outside of jagged windows
Under the warped sun, an unrepentant landscape blurs.
Freshly budding peonies liquefy;
Veils thin, evaporating the...
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Categories:
art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Flowerflowers that have flourished in winter
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny meadow,
the other still frozen in a field,
envying the other flowers that get to grow along in that meadow,
waiting to be revealed.
every once in a while the pollen of the flower...
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Categories:
deep, flower, lost, love
Form: Free verse
Breathe spilled like boneAriana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap
the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights.
He handed her a firebomb,
eyes sharp as vinegar.
They ran across the hot asphalt,
watching the brass kite rise.
Both caught in the whirlpool of the maze,
they guided the trumpet,
mandolin filling the air, sinking into the smokehouse.
Her jacket flared,...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Deprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyesDeprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyes,
with crow's feet drawing the story of endless nights on my face,
where each lie was your illusion, born from the confusion surrounding me,
elusive and fragile, a dance of amorphous metaphors unraveling in the wind,
subjected to your disdain, your words mercilessly cutting my...
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Categories:
deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
dark, deep, earth, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Ohh Dear Diary,OHH DEAR DIARY,
I lost another friend
It's an another end
Maybe it has now become a trend!
They come and they go,
like a turbulent flow
Fast is the time, the bond became slow
Let me be unknown, now I don't wanna know
If this is adulthood, I don't wanna grow
OHH DEAR DIARY,
I know it's not always better...
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Categories:
deep, angst, art, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Many MoonsEcho of distant cries,
quadruped steps deepening into dusk—
wind folding the earth’s breath.
Craftsman of the spider web,
seas of lightning possessing the sky.
Guardian of the other side,
conceiver of comings and goings,
I will meet you soon—
after the waning of many moons,
God-willing—I will meet you soon!
Til then
you will wait—
til the fateful rain washes the earth,
til the sky...
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Categories:
creation, dedication, deep, extended
Form: Free verse
HeartbeatLike a ticking clock~
a drum’s rhythm in darkness...
wings f l u t t e r i n g
within
a sky inside me....
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Categories:
deep, heart, metaphor, romantic,
Form: Verse
SolidaritySolidarity
Justification a delicate strand
Upon belief faith shall stand
A promise of an ancient oath
Doth not the hearts of man propose
To read the sacred creed of life
Stiffled with love our hearts ignite
A voice of solemn praise command
To live as one across the land
And now we see with unity
Come fill our garden of ecstacy
And climb each hill...
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Categories:
deep, desire, devotion, inspirational
Form: Verse
JinxedI drank from a broken mirror; every reflection since has blistered, bleeding out luck I never owned....
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Categories:
deep,
Form: Verse
HelpMy ears fill with the rain- that are my tears.
Crying into the night, searching in desperate need for light.
Looking cluelessly into others' eyes for help, because I cannot begin to know how to help myself.
The words bite my tongue, rotting my teeth... yet I can't even begin to speak....
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, deep, fear,
Form: Free verse
Carpe Diem"Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be."
Carpe Diem.
Nothing more than false hope and the possibility it promises, as real as, cars of sand.
A call to act on boundless ambition inspires the populus,
however,
let you be reminded it is the same "tragic flaw"...
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Categories:
deep, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
FRACTURED SOUL
I was primed to nuture your soul until the end,
Seeking to be your endless passion but most importantly, your best friend.
A bliss with no expectations, conditions or boundaries,
The blazing ember that burns for more than centuries.
Endowing my fragile heart to be embraced,
Unaware of the agony to be faced.
I too, believed, trusted and loved you with...
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Categories:
deep, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Deep Poems
Definition | What is Deep in Poetry?
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