Heartbroken By Young Love --POTD
...I feel your unrehearsed pauses--
the rustle of a blue shirt in leaving
a tangy ache your firm lips make,
holding back cold, collected words.
This rendezvous ... a slow-fire quiver
an ...
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Categories:
dry mouth, heartbroken, youth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cancer
...CONTROLLING
AGONIZING
NAUSEA
CHEMO
ENERGY LOSS
RADIATION
Diagnosis cancer two-thousand and nine
Emotion overload, life frozen in time
Tracheotomy - Chemo - Radiation
Depression - Anger - T...
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Categories:
dry mouth, anxiety, courage, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Treehouse
...
In the great Old Grove forests
Perry, Sayva, Diamond, and Jack
Went out and built this tree house
A fine little tree house
It had a ladder, it had a few windows
It had a little garde...
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Categories:
dry mouth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lockdown
...Lockdown.
Lockdown.
Lockdown.
We’re all huddled in a corner, eyes squeezed tight.
The lights are all off, we’re deprived of the light.
Maybe if I keep my eyes closed it will all go away.
...
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Categories:
dry mouth, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
The World in Waiting
...Dry mouth, air crisp, the snap on my skin,
Room dark, curtains drawn, I stay within.
Dare not check the time, I bury my head,
Excuses keep me warm in this bed.
Yesterday’s troubles left behind,...
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Categories:
dry mouth, beautiful, courage, destiny, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Full Tilt
...
Dry mouth,
shallow breathing;
In your dessert mirage
I thought I saw a waterfall;
Dizzy,
I’m completely decimated;
It is too hot to care;
Please wet my lips,
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Categories:
dry mouth, dream, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form: Cinquain
Poem- Salt Poet- Aditya Aneek
...Poem- Salt
Poet- Aditya Aneek
Reciter- Shimul Mustapha
In a book fair, theater, cafe, on the first day of Bangla calendar, around the festive Valentine day
An ordinary boy is he, if one overlo...
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Categories:
dry mouth, best friend,
Form: Free verse
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.
Yours truly...
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Categories:
dry mouth, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Sketched Out Roadways
...Endless fields,
I don't notice them anymore.
I drive upon a video map
of ever repeating memories.
The land is flat,
the horizon hardly changes,
mile after mile
the same white noise
scratchi...
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Categories:
dry mouth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unspoken Echoes of Unrequited Love
...She Walks in, Beauty in motion, Bright as sunlight,
Melting in that smile, Drowning in those eyes
Falling, I might be, Thinking of no other, Waiting for the moment
Longing that this is real, Desp...
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Categories:
dry mouth, love,
Form: Free verse
- Mournful -
...Everything that time or tide may tell
a silver birch rise in an azure sky
Moonbeam with its wrinkles and dry mouth
captivated by the mournful music
T...
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Categories:
dry mouth, deep, depression, metaphor, sad,
Form: Free verse
In Their Conversation
...It is if she had wrote the narrative to my life.
A foolish man she made me: me thinking
that I could exist until then< the day
we meet and have the right words to put
our future into perspective....
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Categories:
dry mouth, engagement, music, words,
Form: Ballad
This Too Shall Pass
...Although it may seem you are having a bad day... And all your troubles are here to stay... When no one's around to tell you this won't last... Tell yourself... This too shall pass...
When you wake...
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Categories:
dry mouth, change, christian, depression, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
On a Red Brick Road
...i wonder
what we would do without eternity,
and flight
on a red brick road
we walk hand in hand, - warm bones,
skin as soft as marrow,
two lions chasing the same prey, we sweat,
wrought iron i...
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Categories:
dry mouth, africa, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Sticky Dry Mouth
...Wanted or should i say wished
to do anything of substance
to be noticed
But went about it the wrong way
come to think of it
Should have just stuck to my guns
Stopped wanting and wishing f...
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Categories:
dry mouth, slam,
Form: Free verse
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