Phoenix-Souled
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Women —
we are the fault lines of the world.
Every shudder,
every quake,
every heartbreak —
we hold it.
We turn pain into knowing.
We carry weight like it’s woven into us.
We feel everythin...
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Categories:
diviners, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Death Blows a Flamed Horn
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In a chariot of fire in the sun
blew a pale horse and pale rider’s last breath,
and on your grave sings a boding raven
in the shadows of the valley of death.
Where no graven image rise ...
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Categories:
diviners, bereavement, death,
Form: Sonnet
The House that, Eli the deceased priest, built for the LORD, part seven NIV
...1 Samuel 5:8- part seven God's judgment upon the Philistines and Dagon, their
false god, for their oppression of Israel continued.
So they moved the ark of the God of Israel. But after they had...
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Categories:
diviners, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Glue of Goshen
...My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers
"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to ...
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Categories:
diviners, betrayal, bible, brother, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Legally Addicted
...Legally Addicted
Legally Addicted
I'm a slave a prisoner to its sweet nectar.
It calls to me like human flesh calls to Hannibal Lecter.
My lips need its sweet syrup to quench their desert...
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Categories:
diviners, addiction, drug, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Voices From a Foreign Land
...Once upon a life time
When the flowing streams were
Caged behind the backs of steep mountains
Where brothers and sisters perished
Because of rebellion to slavery
There was heard from a distance
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Categories:
diviners, allegory, allusion, art, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Patterned Patrons
...Oh, what a beautiful tree
With glistening leaves
I wonder if it has fruit
That will cause me to believe
...again
Wow! What a tall building
It ascends into the sky
I wonder if it contains ans...
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Categories:
diviners, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Invariant Analogy
...I'm listening to soft music through earplugs,
the strong stimuli of relaxation enter lungs...
they stifle the external sounds
and deepen my consciousness.
The invariant analogy
between time ...
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Categories:
diviners, analogy, creation, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Tattered Sbaquie 2000
...…undeniably tattered and shredded
my itinerary compromised by being
considered as prey and being
expected as a masochistic self-flagellator
losing revenue to the big gun’s atrocious tillage of th...
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Categories:
diviners, betrayal, emotions, irony, me,
Form: Blank verse
The Time of the Summer Solstice
...The Time of the Summer Solstice
Drums pulsing solemnly presage the break of dawn,
bonfires ablaze dot this auspicious June morn.
On the shores of Albion, Druid priests converge,
as Eart...
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Categories:
diviners, celebration, religion, summer,
Form: Rhyme
If Envy Was a King
...If Envy was a king,
he would kill everyone in his kingdom.
He would kill the cooks,
for he can’t cook as well as they do.
He would kill goldsmiths,
f...
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Categories:
diviners, humanity, identity, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Amor Fati
...~Amor Fati~
Justin Richter
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It is no wonder, looking up at the cosmos,
That they worshipped the Gods -
The diviners of Reason
And the theologians of old.
But how devout were they?
Even...
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Categories:
diviners, appreciation, beautiful, faith, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Future
...Hold each utopia minute close
Kiss them with lingering repose,
Tell someone you love them,
Leave the imprint to sink deep within.
For their deeds could soon be gone,
The conscience of the past...
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Categories:
diviners, blessing, destiny, funeral, future,
Form: Free verse
Letter To the Exiles
...This is what the God of Israel, the Lord Almgihty declares
Unto all of you who have been carried away in to exile...
In the land of your captivity until the day i reconcile
You to your Motherland ...
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Categories:
diviners, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Epic