Them and Us
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You see the evil doesn’t look at all condemned
Those evil troublemakers of mankind
Are well remembered, way above the nameless dead
Who by the will of country rulers had to die
Because the acti...
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Categories:
disdained, deep, devotion, flower, love,
Form: Rhyme
That Got-Dog-It Moment
...That Got-Dog-It Moment
With star-staring eyes,
that disdained look loudly speaks:
"I got to go squat!"
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Categories:
disdained, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Give It To The Rain
...Give it to the rain,
all of your hurt and your pain.
Watch as it belittles under a clap of thunder,
all of your hurt, disdained.
Scream it to the sky,
make it heard.
Let him know how much it...
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Categories:
disdained, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections of the Past Visions of the Future
...No of lines: 48; No of words: 397
Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
My mind brims with a string of reflections
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Categories:
disdained, jealousy, life, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dreamer And The Dreamed
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The turning wheel of time
stirs up the dust of disarray,
that settles in the crumbling cauldron
of disordered life of illusion.
In the maiming moments
of disdained dejection,
truth tumble...
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Categories:
disdained, analogy, dream, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tale of the Book
...The book contained their history—
Years of servitude and plenitude,
Years of gloom and bloom,
Years of darkness and redemption.
They were bound by the chains of the unknown,
Seeds of...
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Categories:
disdained, mystery, myth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Decay
...For a moment
Life feels like how it's supposed to be
For a moment
I can tell my mom that I am free
For a second
You become the forgotten memories
For a second
I know where I'm meant to be...
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Categories:
disdained, identity,
Form: Rhyme
I Drank the Blood
...I drank the blood.
Shuffled up to the altar,
pearly white shoes scraping over
faded white tile dirtied by the footsteps
of countless sinners.
(I knew, even then, that that same grime already c...
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Categories:
disdained, angst, christian, discrimination, god,
Form: Free verse
Kandahar
...All terrain passing over sand stones from a distance catering to the hillside the mountain sent down a calming coolness while the barrels of oil leaked my minds eye focused on the stone slabs beneath...
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Categories:
disdained, allah,
Form: Lento
tom cat gets wedding cake in face
...Tom cat got a bunch of wedding cake smeared in his face
By six ex-wives who thought he was a grooming disgrace.
Always marrying someone else, a sleezy one this time too.
This was meowed by wife nu...
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Categories:
disdained, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Descent And Ascent
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The turning wheel of time stirs up the dust of disarray
that settles in the crumbling cauldron of disordered life.
In the maiming moments of disdained dejection
truth tumbles in the debris of...
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Categories:
disdained, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
The Reality
...My life is a raging fire
I'm desperate for living water
Manipulated by the ultimate liar
I'm even afraid to meet my daughter
Floating aimlessly to catch a wave
Hiding behind the wall of my sha...
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Categories:
disdained, deep, emotions, fear, how
Form: Sonnet
Code Blue
...Zest expresses definitions beyond our own understanding
If we could validate the word passcode we would acsend to Heaven
Forever embodies the suggestion that the cruel suffer more in Enternity
Low...
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Categories:
disdained, allah, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Eternity Burns
...Apocalypse kindles
relighting the fire
Malignant denominators
melt from above
Savior disdained
pontificate’s stain
Tomorrow endemic
— in nuclear love
(The New Room: March, 2024)
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Categories:
disdained, fire,
Form: Rhyme
The Words We Cannot Utter
...Can you recall a time
When words could scarcely say,
The sorrows on your mind
Or joys of yesterday?
It often is the case
When urge is met with pause,
That silence stills our tongues
And mind...
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Categories:
disdained, emotions, grief, happiness, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
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