The One Within
...There is a silent visitor inside you now —
softer than fresh-baked bread,
more precious than gifts from wise men of the East.
A second heartbeat,
gently echoing beneath your own.
You carry m...
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Categories:
dilute, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Spoken Word
This is poetry
...I'm lover not a fighter,
me spilling exclamations
instead of blood,
its what I resamble,
the ink in my viens that paints not images
but setting reactions on the loose.
Please! blame me ...
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Categories:
dilute, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
An Interview With A Departing Member
...An Interview With A Departing Member
Me: So I guess the glove didn't fit here at PS
DM: It did. But I was tired of wearing mittens
DM: I need to stretch my hands to a bigger venue
DM: Leather w...
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Categories:
dilute, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Approximations
...I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats
And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have
Stapled back onto ourselves—
The faces we’ve taugh...
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Categories:
dilute, people, social, surreal, truth,
Form: Free verse
Isomer
...My love dissipated into the stagnant night.
The element of hope dissociated, evaporating,
Nebulized by the lungs.
In great heaving gasps and salty residuum,
It left me
Over the hours, the week...
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Categories:
dilute, anger, love, nature, science,
Form: Free verse
Safe Love
...In twilight's hush, where shadows intertwine, And heartbeats echo like a timeless rune, I find myself entranced by thee, mine, Like nothing else has ever been, or soon.
With eyes that dance like s...
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Categories:
dilute, care, character, fashion, imagery,
Form: I do not know?
Echo wind
...In twilight's hush, where shadows intertwine, And heartbeats echo like a timeless rune, I find myself entranced by thee, mine, Like nothing else has ever been, or soon.
With eyes that dance like s...
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Categories:
dilute, black love, urban,
Form: Imagism
Eyes
...Eyes
Embarrassed, ashamed, of
my alphabetical brown eyes I’m
not! My eyes adjust easily to
different clear sound waves. Some
sound waves desire venomously to
change the temperature to
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Categories:
dilute, humor,
Form: Free verse
Mister Time
...As a gift I take each day
Dismal days keep coming on
Random snowflakes dance away
Dying to reborn
In the murky light I sit
Listening to clocks
Time keeps ticking, bit by bit
Like the water dr...
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Categories:
dilute, day, lost, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Destroyers, Part II
......They’re always killing babies,
they treat it like a virtue,
deny your humanity
if you are still in the womb,
act as if age along says
whether you’re human or not,
and if you’re less than nin...
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Categories:
dilute, america, death, evil, how
Form: Rhyme
in the realm of silver linings
...
oh how a newborn’s first tear helps dilute ~ mortality’s bitter truth
death dissolves in such sweet moments ~ if soluble never absolute...
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Categories:
dilute, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Monoku
The Tribute
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To the legendary teacher I pay tribute
For imparting live voices to the mute
You paid gratitude
To the multitude
On the mountain top you stood
And all the heads understood
You never said ‘Nev...
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Categories:
dilute, appreciation, feelings, strength, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Dormant
...
Their despise never trace me
Free to every discerning eyes
Ecstasy eloquent and dilute
soft footstape asleep where
Echoes of mountains ever climb
Desertness solemn and wither
Torrent rain who...
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Categories:
dilute, beautiful, color, family, paradise,
Form: Free verse
NOISE OF FAME
...Tuning the radio
Everyone stay tuned
Constant drawing attention
Nothing but void, empty sounds
Yelling words without reasoning
Some times what you see can be deceiving
An attacker is a hater ...
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Categories:
dilute, addiction, africa, anti bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Rock of Time
...I have weathered the storms of ages and I have completed all the races; the clouds have broken away in the skies shining the light on the multitude that is trapped in the dark, mankind has fashioned ...
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Categories:
dilute, best friend, boat, books,
Form: Narrative
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