Compassion's Rage
...Your name leaves a bruise on my lips,
like a ghost that lingers, life to strip,
with eyes that threaten as they smile
and a voice that cuts, low and vile.
My heart cries out in silence dark,
whi...
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Categories:
disjoint, abuse, anger, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Vanishing Point
...A quick flash and your gone,
Although I haven't .known you that long,
It's just a holiday romance by the sparkling blue sea,
But it seemed it could be forever being together you and me.
Your l...
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Categories:
disjoint, adventure, emotions, farewell, first
Form: Rhyme
Distant
...Major distraction powerful confusion
innovative woven tapestry
vivid words non-spoken sensual
conveying sense of disorientation
discomforted spiritual turmoil
imaginary imagination being lo...
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Categories:
disjoint, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXVII
...Picaso streching a point"
perspective in a little disjoint
Model Francoise Guot
with the 'infamous' beauty spot...
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Categories:
disjoint, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
To Love, or Not to Love Perfected
...“To love, or not to love?” that is the point,
the focus which men lose beyond disjoint.
To be a god among men, and unloved,
is woe: even wild beasts are not unmoved
by these fragmented, lone, une...
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Categories:
disjoint, allusion, god, hate, humanity,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Psalm 23
...The shepherd doth provide for my true needs,
And stills the waters, watches while I rest.
All to His glory, I go where he leads;
Refreshed my soul, for his right way is best.
Tho' shadows loom,...
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Categories:
disjoint, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Our Wedding Anniversary
...Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will be allowed sometime for a private talk. (that too only if the parents a...
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Categories:
disjoint, celebration, emotions, longing, thanksgiving,
Form: Alliteration
Lime Again
...I found her beautiful on the inside
And honored her for time
When all along my feelings changed
and now she's beautiful on lime
But then it changed to something more
and she would disappoint
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Categories:
disjoint, allusion, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Ramble 24
...what to write, what to write
i get so excited,
have so much to say,
in so many ways
like i’m going to burst
if i can’t get out a verse
or maybe a rhyme
or some lyrics in 4/4 time
but the word...
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Categories:
disjoint, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Bad News Sigh
...When people bring me bad news
that always makes me sigh,
Seems the bad out weighs the good
and does not justify…
Righteousness or reason
hence instantly repel
The selfishness of others
who tho...
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Categories:
disjoint, future, people, perspective, words,
Form: Rhyme
Drowning
...I am drowning, drowning in this sea of alcohol where my patience and soul would disjoint,
Because my heart can not tolerate it's low melting and boiling point.
Please, Please just say you can h...
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Categories:
disjoint, abuse, poems, race, true
Form: Sonnet
Our Heritage Dies
...We’re losing America
while losing our minds
Our spirits in hiding
our souls hard to find
The nation in freefall
all fingers to point
One side at the other
common values disjoint
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Categories:
disjoint, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Existentialism
...Existentialism
What if this is reality but I am out of time?
Perhaps my step is syncopated with the other marching drones
and I am Zen and with the moment or perhaps I missed a beat
could I be ...
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Categories:
disjoint, allusion, confusion, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
The Geometry of a Love Gone Wrong
...Drawing lines between shapes of grief
Going in circles, awaiting the lietmotif
Now just a side of a triangular run.
With defences up like the Pentagon.
Then finally looking Love square in the f...
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Categories:
disjoint, analogy, humor, humorous, love,
Form: Rhyme
Swords Speak
...Swords speak brittle metal thrusts
singing a song in the wind by touch and lost trust;
blade upon blade clanging the swish of empty points
deeply cut for glory and honor now disjoint.
The swo...
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Categories:
disjoint, brother, father, son, spoken
Form: Quatrain
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