The theater at the end of the world
...The red curtains lift and the day begins
The sun steps up, introducing herself
Most of us don’t dare to look at her directly
a whispering wind enters
declaring that the world is ending today...
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Categories:
dramatized, beauty, courage, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
A Journey To Far America
...The sleepy begonias undulating slightly so undisturbed
leaned forward to encourage and wish me good fortune,
while the apricot trees spread around their strong aroma,
a dazzling daylight was risin...
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Categories:
dramatized, america, courage, goodbye, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Many voices
...I was delighted in reading many voices, Those voices were stated by various poets, Their poems made me and readers to rejoices,
Whether it mi...
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Categories:
dramatized, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Timeout
...Just because I'm working on my mental health
Doesn't mean I think I'm better than a person who chooses to stay unwell
It just means
I'm working on my internal dialog daily, and I'm not perfect, at...
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Categories:
dramatized, mental health, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Picture on the Parlor Wall
...When midnight flames flicker aesthetic reveries,
releasing ashes of rainbow petals,
upon the canvas of undressed seasons,
I delve into blue blurs of butterflies,
framed in floating colors of nost...
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Categories:
dramatized, color, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper
...Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper
Writer of these words,
a former Lower Providence inhabitant,
who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno
for most of his outlandish, impis...
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Categories:
dramatized, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Free verse
to have dodged a bullet
...To have dodged a bullet is heard by me as a clear soft symphony, it reminds me that all is a dramatized sigh of relief whether stressed, sad, annoyed, mad or worried, it all ends the same with the wo...
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Categories:
dramatized, appreciation, irony, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
...POTD 8th Jan 24
NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE
The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moo...
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Categories:
dramatized, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
I Never Tire of October
...
Fall's tapestry of red and gold,
as scheduled, always will unfold.
Still, I am dazzled and surprised
October holds me mesmerized.
The color riot on display
of mums and pumpkins perched on ...
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Categories:
dramatized, appreciation, beauty, october,
Form: Kyrielle
To One No More Lionized
...If you were much lionized
Later no more recognized
Or by some men demonized
Would it leave you traumatized,
Judge it a foul play dramatized;
Have the actors stigmatized:
As Satan characterized?...
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Categories:
dramatized, celebrity, change, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
This Insubstantial Pageant
...Upon our stage we romp and rage
in Goldilocks’s golden cage
amongst colossal cosmic crowd
with spark of liveliness endowed
of pomp and circumstantial fate,
whose worth we underestimate,
in co...
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Categories:
dramatized, creation, earth, humanity, life,
Form: Verse
Old Wounds Never Healed
...November 29, 1919
Dearest Janet,
I would love to come to your parents' Boxing Day Party.
I adore you. I want to marry you.
But if you are still angry I will understand.
Just give me a sign ~
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Categories:
dramatized, grief, heart, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse
Not Me
...IT ISN ‘t ME
It is not four score years that I exist
Though calendar and records say it’s so
And I do not comprise this mortal coil
Though it may seem to many and to me
Some say we live one ...
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Categories:
dramatized, life,
Form: Blank verse
A World Apart Yet We Have the Best of Everything
...I am encapsulated by your love
Dramatized uncleaned in a soap opera
A World Apart, yet we have The Best of Everything
You are my Guiding Light
You are my Love of Life
Awaiting The Brighter Day
...
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Categories:
dramatized, appreciation, assonance, desire, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Spring
...I waited... I surmised
I know I agonized
Of course... I never realized
Springtime was disguised
I pondered... I personalized
I know I criticized
Of course... I never recognized
Spring had im...
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Categories:
dramatized, angst, april, conflict, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
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