Fantasy rides status quo
...In silent drumbeats of depression
throbs a fractal life of no "visualization".
dandelions fluffing in howling winds
fight with Halloween "hallucinations".
behind the dusk of a sealed doorway lies...
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Categories:
drumbeats, allusion, depression, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tears of a Clown
...S t r e n g t h ~
a somersaulting sigil
you wear in stillness,
when the gold of ascending dawn
kisses the skin of sleeping sand,
when the skylark softly
serenades serenity for the unseen,
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Categories:
drumbeats, 7th grade, deep, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Dancing Feet
...She dances to the rhythmic drumbeats,
She dances despite her aching feet.
She bears the torture;
If only.it would turn to joy.
She watches the priest as he calls upon the benevolent spi...
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Categories:
drumbeats, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Protection Of The Tribes
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In the heart of the forest, where the ancient trees stand tall
Lies a world untouched by time, where nature’s whispers call
Tribal people live in harmony, with the land and sky so wide
Their spi...
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Categories:
drumbeats, earth, environment, people, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
How to make love to a didgeridoo
...Her shocks poured forth like a midnight oil spill,
body buckling like a sapling in a tornado, cracked like a Grecian museum urn. Moonflower extended limb petals, hips arched, limbs touched the night...
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Categories:
drumbeats, crush, dark,
Form: Free verse
The voice of Emilien
...The voice of Emilien
(A lone voice whispers)
I once met the King of all Darkness
In France
As we played poker for my soul
In a burnt out house
While Edith Piaf sang
La vie en rose ...
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Categories:
drumbeats, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
A Part of Reality
...Echo holds back some of reality,
Giving us a filtered view,
Like the dew,
Droplets from the main source.
Songs of joy come from a ferry,
Their sounds reach the shore,
Carrying mes...
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Categories:
drumbeats, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Shikata Ga Nai
...“This is love: to fly toward a secret Sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi
Life can be a pi...
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Categories:
drumbeats, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Percussion's Groove
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Sound of the drumbeats stirred a move
As they gathered for the war dance
With movements to percussion's groove
Sound of the drumbeats stirred a move
Prepared for war, their skills to prove...
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Categories:
drumbeats, dance, war,
Form: Triolet
A Bugle Wept
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A lone bugle wept as it wrapped
its plaintive message ‘round her heart
Why relentless drumbeats for another
raised hope anew for her brother
Is not ours to fathom unless
...
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Categories:
drumbeats, emotions, funeral, music, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Utopia
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Written: March 15 2024 For Constance La France Contest
Quote: "Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a be...
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Categories:
drumbeats, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Cotton Crowns
...Upon their granite, sculpted brows,
A chiffon ballet swirls and bows.
Cloud-scarves drape, light as a sigh,
Where mountains, aged and stoic, lie.
Feathers of heaven, soft and white,
Escape the...
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Categories:
drumbeats, mountains,
Form: Personification
Fading Drumbeats
...Long past war’s fading drumbeats
And beyond the miasmic mists of time
Run undercurrents that displace peace
And fancied futures hoped sublime.
Once staccato beats of war drums abate
Far from...
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Categories:
drumbeats, death, fate, humanity, in
Form: Rhyme
Penultimate Prefix of Passion
...As the final glimpse
of the sun leads into
an everlasting spectacle
of twinkling dreams,
peeking through
turmeric traces
of an amber aftermath,
I listen to the
nesting nightin...
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Categories:
drumbeats, deep, destiny, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Distant
...Distant
Drumbeats echo
Through tranquil night's stillness,
Enticing, bewitching, tempting
Rhythm....
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Categories:
drumbeats, poems,
Form: Cinquain
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