See
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ENOUGH OF DICTUMS ..
SEE THE HARM OF DAMNED WOLVES ..
DESPITE THE WORK OF VICTIMS ..
SEE WELL
AND
STAND STILL ..
OBSERVE THE BLANKS
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FILL ..
ALLOW NOW THE TEARS ...
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Categories:
dictums, arabic, care, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of Shared Heartbeat
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Written: December 06, 2024
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We were born into tribes
cinctured by bonds and praxis
welded by ambits and dictums
an eyeless ch...
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Categories:
dictums, analogy, humanity,
Form: Free verse
STREETS OF SOLITUDE
..."Do I still matter?" I lament, in quiet despair,
As kindred acquaintances vanish, dissolved in thin air.
Solitude clots the cistern, blocks my spirit's flow;
Collateral damage obscures the expansi...
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Categories:
dictums, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
A Pristine Swan
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Written: February 07, 2024
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It appears as if
the world has been
coated by a wave of
deceitful dictums,
where faked reality
a...
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Categories:
dictums, analogy, appreciation, culture, music,
Form: Free verse
TWINFLAMES
...TWINFLAMES
Obsidian oscillated into lava
slid across syntactic streams
tumbled thick greenwood thickets
impenetrability an intricate illusion wicked
sha...
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Categories:
dictums, allusion, blessing, character, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Playing the Victim
...I feel deep sadness for the sullen and morose,
For their lives are wallowing in dissatisfaction
Unable to experience “The Lightness of Being,”
Aligning themselves with a disgruntled fa...
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Categories:
dictums, anti bullying, people, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Memories of Our Memory Lane
...Dropping my heart to the level of oceans
Once reflected living in life and memories of adore,
Your hibernation drove my seasonal moods
And mesmerized my loneliness because
You were the only hop...
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Categories:
dictums, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Other
Invictum
...Against wild dogma and feathery wit,
Shall your sound idioms and wisdom
Outshine fickle folios of mortal sages;
Proving verity in its irrepressible form.
Your arresting dictums shall outshine
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Categories:
dictums, allegory, allusion, destiny, devotion,
Form: Didactic
A Prayer Greeting For My Poetry Soup Family
...Let this decade of 2020
Be the decade of plenty!
May we all sow seeds,
Of many good deeds,
Not for personal gains,
But to relieve the pains,
Of many human victims,
Of bad political dictums,
P...
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Categories:
dictums, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dictum of Insanity
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On par to manage joyful course
Approach to live without remorse
While dictums of insanity
Are grinding spars impaling me
Perchance to light upon derail
The most melodic harmony
T...
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Categories:
dictums, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Rwanda's Pain
...The Belgian masters of old
gave in to the devil's wish,
offering Tutsi blood to
fill the Hutu tribal dish.
Wretched souls hacked asunder
killed in the shadow of fear,
corpses soaked in crimso...
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Categories:
dictums, abuse, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Me and Me First
...That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me an...
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Categories:
dictums, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Into the Sunset
...On nights of distress, he embraces me and states I am not his hostage.
I am beautiful and must be kidnapped.
He longed for my touched.
His characteristics enthrall.
Captivation is not fought.
We danc...
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Categories:
dictums, dance, dark, deep, i
Form: Verse
Outside
...OUTSIDE
Sun awakens from its sleep
stillness of the day uninterrupted
morning rituals call
hold to momentary pause.
The mirror speaks,
an epiphany.
Its quintessence brought forth so true
prior exi...
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Categories:
dictums, race,
Form: Bio
A Modern Tribute To Antiquity
...A bit I have travelled, in the cities of this world
Each with a history – a tale that can be told
Through the lens of the roving tourist’s eye
Who often does, with some wonder, sigh
As an ancie...
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Categories:
dictums, historycity, history,
Form: I do not know?
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