The fear of nothing changing
...The rush of emotion stilled
The air once consumed by an undiluted energy
Now eerily quiet
Something lingers in the air
Justice?
No something louder but hidden
A violence so silent
It could...
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Categories:
eerily, change, discrimination, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
eerily, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
We Pass out Every Night
...Diving deep in the pond of the sub-consciousness
I die every night, you die every night too
This is our way of rejuvenating the body
This may sound crazy, eerily or even spooky,
Howeve...
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Categories:
eerily, blessing, creation, day, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Ledger of A retired Nurse's Life
...Tapestry of Life**
In the intricate tapestry of life, vibrant memories weave their threads, each one shimmering with its own hue. The echoes of past workplaces linger like faint, nostalgic perfume...
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Categories:
eerily, anti bullying, encouraging, giggle,
Form: Narrative
The Stars Have Stopped Shining
...All of a sudden
The stars have stopped shining
Blimming sadness in Heaven
Too many babies are maimed and hurt
Too many infants are starving and suffering
Too many women are crying and...
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Categories:
eerily, anti bullying, boat, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Awareness - Quiet Reflection
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Written: April, 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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From a deep weariness of the soul
to the discomfort embedded in our ...
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Categories:
eerily, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...The Wanderer, Part II
Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves,
the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers,
the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling…
Th...
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Categories:
eerily, bird, dark, loss, sea,
Form: Free verse
We Can Activate a Happy New Year
...Into the fog I fell,
amidst the bone chilling cold,
caterwauled by silence -
eerily the end
of the year, dismal.
With the call of a forefinger,
I float through the mist,
silence switches
to...
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Categories:
eerily, new year,
Form: Free verse
day twenty six
...day twenty-six
Today is the day after people are tired
And the toilets on the first floor of the building
Were blocked and had taken a heavy load
The silence is eerily; a man on the fifth floo...
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Categories:
eerily, cinderella, cute,
Form: Free verse
Incident At Milton Creek Silver Mine
...Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street
And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet
It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek
Preparation...
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Categories:
eerily, america, christmas, december, memory,
Form: Narrative
not a hunter
...Not a Hunter
Every morning, the train that took him to work
through a landscape harassed by Man
he saw a deer watching the train as it did
every morning
The deer's eyes reflected the morning ...
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Categories:
eerily, betrayal, business, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Broken Pier
...Once it was strong and full of life
Now it's a mismash of signs and rails
Place of the working man and his wife
Abandoned wood and left over tales
Now its dead with a forgotten past
Deserted on ...
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Categories:
eerily, nostalgia, remember, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Holiday Humor Limericks
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Holidays are coming; the first is near
Halloween is a night that many fear
But the bravest ones boast
"I'm not afraid of ghosts!"
Until eerily haunting cries they hear.
There's feasting ...
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Categories:
eerily, holiday, humor,
Form: Limerick
Haunted House
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Startled, I woke up in a fright.
The silhouette in the mirror is there again tonight.
Peering closer, the form is ghastly;
Pinching myself, covering my head, and lastly
Counting to ten and pe...
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Categories:
eerily, death, image, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Family
...From the day we’re born we’re in the club
Consuming yet eerily beautiful
A club that commands no fee
Where its expected for us to be dutiful
We appear the same in little ways
Yet are different i...
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Categories:
eerily, family,
Form: Rhyme
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