Frantic
...
The not so silent,
Frantics on the march.
Hovering over,
Waiting to pounce.
Because we forgot what life is all about.
Sending force full screams,
Too move people out....
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Categories:
die off, 12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Deprived of your Love Contest
...What is the shore without the sea
Aimlessly wondering watery dreams
Deferred desolate depressed empty
Is how I am without love in me
That one true love for which one is blind
Without it there ...
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Categories:
die off, bird, blue, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Dry Leaves
...Seeds sprout to become trees
Trees with ample green leaves
Leaves fully growing yellow
Yellow to dry under a hot sun
Sun causing the leaves to die off
Off the tree they hastily tumble
Tumblin...
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Categories:
die off, absence, age, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse
Root Is Life
...When roots wither
All parts dries up
the vines die off....
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Categories:
die off, death, life, truth,
Form: Than-Bauk
Vanished
...Facing global warming and climate change;
many species will vanish from the Earth.
Most don't seem concerned, and I find that strange;
being tethered to this planet from birth.
Whales m...
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Categories:
die off, angst, animal, change, earth,
Form: Sonnet
The Rock
...The rock stood
silent above the ocean's fray
gray speckled and chitted by time, sea-salted air, and shells airdropped by
gulls
Winds swept over it
rains drenched it
the sun beat kindly…and unk...
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Categories:
die off, nature, perspective, philosophy, strength,
Form: Free verse
Like the Girls I Read About
...I want to be loved like the girls I read about.
With such intensity that when their lips touch, it feels like a soothing fire of passion
I want to feel like I'm the oxygen he needs to survive.
I d...
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Categories:
die off, 11th grade, allusion, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Rapture
...
the rapture
Each story fell to the ground
feathers were collected
in the die-off different colours
prismed in the silver dust
of moon eclipsing sun
the in-between time
where...
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Categories:
die off, muse,
Form: Free verse
Upon Exiting the Womb
...Upon exiting the womb...
23,190 days ago,
Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-num...
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Categories:
die off, adventure, africa, america, birth,
Form: Free verse
It Is My Impression
...I would just like to say
that it is my impression
that longer hair
and other flamboyant affectations
are male dominant immersions
from sadly dull camouflage
into the birthright
and left
of hi...
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Categories:
die off, caregiving, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
On the Need To Distrust the New, Part I
...There seems to be a trend these days,
an obsession with novelty,
and like most bad things of this age
it is traced back to the sixties,
at least the latest form of it,
for in truth, it’s always ...
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Categories:
die off, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Baby, Blues
...Winter Baby, Blues
Oh baby you left your boots in Asheville where you
didn’t even get to hike the Blue Ridges before the new
year turned over hittin the drafty door just Iike
all the resol...
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Categories:
die off, angel, love, snow, stress,
Form: Prose Poetry
To
...It is always comforting to know,
As you grow
That your childhood heroes,
As fixed stars in the firmament,
,
Remain for stability
In the changing aging of life
But as they die off
As, well...
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Categories:
die off, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Death To You, Corona
...Not the beer, of course!
Death to you, Covid-19
Mass-murderer
Coward in hiding, festering,
attacking surreptitiously
Sucker-...
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Categories:
die off, anger, poetry, write,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Everything Changes
...Everything changes
Places and faces
Time marches on
I try to embrace it
People come and fade away
Life is full of relationships
Some move on, others die off
All in search of happiness
T...
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Categories:
die off, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
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