An Altruist Unsung
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She lived beside the old temple that has stood
For years on the rocky bank of the silent river
Flowing all through the lining greenery cover ,
The woods and the arable land rich and goo...
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Categories:
effaced, life,
Form: Narrative
As Winter Softly Creeps
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“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” — Dean Koontz
Inhaling quietude, I watch
glistening pearls swirling in twilight’s sky.
The silence...
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Categories:
effaced, snow, winter,
Form: Imagism
Misguided Power
...In the hollows of power’s grip,
where shadows twist the heart’s cry,
there—mights build thrones on backs bent,
where abuse wears the mask of guidance,
control, a cloak woven with the thread of fe...
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Categories:
effaced, abuse, dark, money, power,
Form: Free verse
Antiquarian Echoes: Time-Traveling through an Old Library's Labyrinth
...In dust-laden silence, past the reach of day,
The mansion's library whispered of forgotten tales,
Its heartbeat echoed in the books arrayed.
Time's soft touch graced each spine and page,
Among ...
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Categories:
effaced, books, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse
Spirit of Christmastide
...Spirit of Christmastide
Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette
in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where ...
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Categories:
effaced, christmas, december, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Love Sick Heavenly Demon
...100,000 years of nirvana
Experiencing the pain and sorrow in the land of mortals
Breaking the divine law.
Embracing the Empyrian heart
Why care so much on what is divine or mortal?
Dancing th...
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Categories:
effaced, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Free verse
The jade Emperors dream
...The nine tribulations have been effaced
Life and death, I accept with grace.
One moment flies by in a hundred years
A second thought to missing the mortal trials.
The wishes of thousands falling...
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Categories:
effaced, angst,
Form: Free verse
Thanksgiving gobbledygook
...Thanksgiving gobbledygook
The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
w...
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Categories:
effaced, 12th grade, africa, age,
Form: Free verse
Sea Change
...Its quest is over.
Life's. Wholesome-faced.
At this drop off point, a world's
Sea-washed. Effaced.
Shackled by which search, a slave's
Profitless, for coin
Proved it, toward more and more
Be...
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Categories:
effaced, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Cage
...my brain has its own life,
its own conversations,
never-ending circumlocutions
this confabulation of memory
leaves me unsure of
the reality of my thoughts
is this a chemical misstep,
a min...
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Categories:
effaced, angst, anxiety, depression, language,
Form: Free verse
Each Passing Cloud
...Each Passing Cloud
Each passing cloud carries melancholy
of morose mind now venturing your sky.
No matter your mood be sad or jolly,
Feel my arde...
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Categories:
effaced, how i feel, lost
Form: Quatern
Gift
...some say life digs its own grave ~
from my pov i’m building mountains (By poet)
More aware than I’m feeling
less abstract than my dreams
Reality’s that one special place
somewhere in the be...
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Categories:
effaced, allusion, hope, how i
Form: Rhyme
A Wonderland At Dawn
...I see the flakes come tumbling from pale sky.
Grey barren earth below has been effaced.
The loveliness nobody can deny.
With dazzling snow this wonderland is graced.
In morning’s sheen, the fro...
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Categories:
effaced, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Safe Journey Milton
...I'm dreaming of those sandy beaches
With every poem today I write
Of my presence here please do not lose sight
And may your holidays be bright! by L Milton Hankins
Sandy beaches...
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Categories:
effaced, for him, poets, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Canticles of Necropolis
...From silken mists scarred stones give tongue
To canticles raised to twilit drear,
Of frolicked hours when seasons were young,
And Promise chastised every fear.
Once brightly smiled upon our days
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Categories:
effaced, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
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