This love, like a candle burning in the night
...This love, like a candle burning in the night,
Ephemeral, sweet, desperate in its glow,
Like a dream that fades at the dawn's first light,
In the velvety waves of a slumbering night.
This love, a...
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Categories:
dispraise, love,
Form: Free verse
In Dispraise of Poetry
...Guilty as charged they passed on the verdict
As the prisoner who had been accused of an atrocity, stood before the jury.
It comprised of not more than three panel of judges.
The eldest judge with ...
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Categories:
dispraise, corruption, cry, freedom, judgement,
Form: Political Verse
Ode To My Inspiration
...Thou,be my inspiration, motivation and aspiration,
Thou,be my guidance like father,brother and mother;
Thou, be my close friend, lover and all my admiration;
Thou, mine hope,prospect and ideal adv...
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Categories:
dispraise, caregiving, courage, creation, devotion,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Color of My Heart
...When young my world through rose tint glasses seen;
my life was grand and to all problems blind;
the world was never seen as byzantine;
no diff’rence ever known in all mankind.
But as I aged I ...
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Categories:
dispraise, color, conflict, hate, prejudice,
Form: Sonnet
Nothing Left To Lose
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Ignite the fuse
As I've nothing left to lose
My last gambit is a thriller
With the eyes of a killer
My verse is written in your heart
I pull at the strings and it falls apart
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Categories:
dispraise, conflict, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
Dancing In My Sleep
...People post dreams
Seldom sleeps at night
Walking within wretched paths
Ever evenly earned so
Sleep seldom wake up feet
Fancy flesh freely dancing
Under ukulele wake
Beating beats boasting dan...
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Categories:
dispraise, allusion, dance, feelings, sleep,
Form: Alliteration