The Speaker
...The speaker spoke in a guttural cry
Screeching against the day
Dooming us all to lay down and die.
We all uttered a final sigh
Nothing for us left to say
The speaker spoke in a guttural cry.
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Categories:
dooming, political,
Form: Villanelle
gillo Swatter
...the female is XX
and the male is XY
Every individual
must have at least
one X chromosome
Since the female is XX,
each of her eggs has
a single X chromosome
The male, being XY
can gen...
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Categories:
dooming, character,
Form: Ballade
Thanatos Cold Embrace Of Death
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Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes, * for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is nearby —poetess
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Categories:
dooming, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
IN THE SPRING OF CONFUSION: A TANKA DUO
...Tree-branched bird staring,
Looking me right in the eyes;
We both confused:
Humsn and natural nature,
Inhibiting springing peace:-
Wars' twofold nature:
Destructive storms and b...
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Categories:
dooming, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Maladapted, Part II
...You hear people thinking that they
can break reality with thought,
that thinking it must make it so,
I think we all have seen their lot.
The kids that think that they are cats,
and demand litter...
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Categories:
dooming, confusion, gender, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
The following extrapolated
thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate
how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house ass-sized.
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Categories:
dooming, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Release
...Ripples intrude in silence without cause,
strange since serpentine desire spirals rest,
so in witness mode, from our heart abode,
awareness self-aware, just looking on,
flows in and out of these ...
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Categories:
dooming, freedom, spiritual,
Form: Sestina
Fantastic four
...A genuine hero isn't one that's flawless
Arguably not the one garmented with
Absolute forfeits but one who is purely
Accountable in securing relationships
Amiably without trade of another...
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Categories:
dooming, 5th grade, conflict, courage,
Form: Alliteration
Mirror, Mirror
...An obscure, ambiguous figure looks back at me.
Penetrating me, seeing right through my mask of lies.
Knees buckle, arms shake, shaken as can be.
Glossy eyes filled with emotions no words could d...
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Categories:
dooming, anxiety, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Shadowy
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Caught up in the shadowy,
Silhouettes dancing, trembling
Like wings in breathless
Whispers, erasing all the fearless
Memories, blending worry
With confusion, desperation
Despair a...
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Categories:
dooming, christian, devotion, god, happy,
Form: Free verse
My Homeland Kashmir
...Incomming of tears,
Returning of fears
Killing of men:The alarming bell
So called paradise changed into hell
On the faces of all
I saw the marks of fall
On the all sunny days
I saw the doom...
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Categories:
dooming, 11th grade, anger, giving,
Form: Rhyme
The Call of the Grimoire
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"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
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Categories:
dooming, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative
Nurturing Nature
...Nature is the very life-giving globe,
She's galaxy, cosmos and universe;
Kith and kin, like moon and stars, in her throb;
Each creature, like true mother, she does nurse;
Hills, vales, seas and o...
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Categories:
dooming, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
Heart's Peace
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There were days when I looked back
And could only see… pain, desperation, darkness
Following me from the ancient feelings
The past where I was no longer present
A place of pain, abuse, ...
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Categories:
dooming, anxiety, forgiveness, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Blockade Lift
...Blockade Lift
They wanted the grain
Putin's ships stood in the way
And needed sinking immediately
They lifted the Russian naval blockade
Of Ukrainian ports with NATO warships
So the world wou...
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Categories:
dooming, conflict, military, war,
Form: Verse
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