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Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future
..."It wasn't always like this, of course. Money didn't always exist. Previously, people labored to eat. However, they WORKED for joy." The concept of happiness was absent. When money was introdu......
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Bryan Norton
Categories:
distracts,
inspirational, joy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times
...In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times, A dark veil is now woven, a prison for lost souls, Where critical spirit and free thought are but whispered memories, Control of education ......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
distracts,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Memory
...I look into a mirror and see that little boy in his warm clothes He looks out at the road in front of him A silence rings in his ear Tears well in his eyes His dad pulls over, empathy sparse in......
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hyacinthus orientalis
Categories:
distracts,
abuse, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Entwined
...I watch the dawn’s first light softly caress your sleeping form. My heart is overcome with feelings, oft-forgotten I confess, of how entwined our lives and love’s become. Time, like a river, we......
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Ken Johnson
Categories:
distracts,
love, relationship,
Form:
Sonnet
2017
...I used to drive around town for fun. But this town is now overgrown. With tall buildings that reach too high. As I try to look up. The sun turns toward me and distracts me. I used to go t......
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Angelica Tao
Categories:
distracts,
age, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Weather Girl
...Roof shingles are tossed like confetti in a Banshee wind. She says it's going to be a bad weather day, the green screen behind her wobbles as a gust of torrential hailstones rocks the studio, ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
distracts,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar
... Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic microwave background radiation— CMB for short. She's everywhere: fluorescent birdsong of modern offices, hum of corner store ice cream cases. Have ......
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Jaymee Thomas
Categories:
distracts,
age, allusion, culture,
Form:
Free verse
War Dog
...I know the sounds of war: They have become so familiar to my ears That they now sound like home. I serve alongside the soldiers— I have a job to do; I live to please. For the people who love an......
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Amelie Ison
Categories:
distracts,
animal, death, dog, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Buddha
... … I like him not the fat bellied one as there is too much hunger on the planet an overweight pouch does not seem right resembles too much opulent self-gratification and distracts from praye......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
distracts,
devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Joy and Happiness
...We plan and design our cities, communities, families, and personal lives, According to our beliefs about the purpose of life, Our happiness is rooted in money and all that money buys, The way we sp......
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Bryan Norton
Categories:
distracts,
happiness, joy, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
The Necromancer’s Tears
...He weeps, assigned to mourn for others who Had none to mourn them, none to say goodbye, Those whose harm medicine can’t undo, Whose bodies he takes apart each passing night. He scrubs, a cleans......
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Daniel Bailey
Categories:
distracts,
health,
Form:
Rhyme
Gus, Trainer, of Puppets Mall Exodus II
... Their eyes widened, and the group leaned in with curiosity. “What’s in it for us?” one of them asked, lowering his phone and adopting a tone that suggested a wild adventure was imminent, perhaps ev......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
distracts,
2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Other
Intertwined Souls In Passionate Urge
...Ah! All fades away, nothing remains... but carved names into cold stones! The scent of evening's kisses, the touch of trembling hands also drift away into pretty sunsets! Intertwined soul......
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Andrew Crisci
Categories:
distracts,
desire, emotions, moon, night,
Form:
Lyric
Both Sides
...Saddness helps, and joy distracts It is not depression From the both sides of each act You get mixed impression That’s how sun confronts the rain With complementation It goes over and again Ki......
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Gregory Colodub
Categories:
distracts,
introspection, love, philosophy, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Storms Will Pass
..."over the waters blue the night winds sigh, The breakers roar... " Lord Byron "Over the waters blue the night winds sigh The breakers roar..." Waves collapse before my eyes. I catch my br......
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Natasha L Scragg
Categories:
distracts,
metaphor, sea, storm,
Form:
Ballad
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