Matthew Scott Harris may be
...Matthew Scott Harris may be...
cunctatious, flirtatious, and unostentatious,
plus being calm, cool and collected,
but he haint disputatious!
Though by far whether alive
or posthumously repur...
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Categories:
embellish, adventure, age, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Children
...Children will always remember the void,
They will always recall the hands that couldn’t embrace them.
They will always remember the troubles that nightfall brings,
And the darkness that inva...
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Categories:
embellish, children, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Breakaway
...Feel like being alone today
Needed the loneliness and emptiness
Just moments to let sway
To feel broken… lifeless and soulless
I wanted the feeling of innocence
I wanted to be naive and incomp...
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Categories:
embellish, self,
Form: Rhyme
Quenching The Thirst For Knowledge
...As I sat thinking the other day,
A flow of thoughts brought these words to say.
Some were fleeting, some longer lasting,
Like the evening shadows the sun was casting.
Quenching my thirst for k...
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Categories:
embellish, creation, dedication, introspection, truth,
Form: Rhyme
If A Stranger Came Among Us
...I wonder what he’d say to me as we strolled along the way.
I think a truth he’d share with me, and here’s what he might say.
“It’s not a message you’ll understand, at least not right away.”
“It...
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Categories:
embellish, freedom, giving, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Real Heaven
...A paradise of perpetual peace...
there's no struggle, there's no sleaze,
there's no murky sky to spread malice.
glaciers and rivers of honey embellish.
crystal chandeliers, all sparkling upon
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Categories:
embellish, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Do poets write what readers hear?
...
Poets have multiple aims, modes, reasons to write,
Which may match what readers want downright.
Some poets are simply lovers of words and language.
How they twist and turn, and meld on a page....
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Categories:
embellish, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Adored Lord Broad
...
Let's applaud our
Adored Lord Broad
Fame and awards
Crossing swords &
Bossing visiting hordes
Name in the frame
On Lords boards
Cooing..wasn't it grand
Tanned boy with h...
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Categories:
embellish, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Fulfilled Journey
...
Across the wandering life’s dynamic landscape,
the tortuous highway in the undulating topography
winds with the wheel of time to the hazy future,
I traverse following the unseen course of des...
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Categories:
embellish, death, life,
Form: Free verse
River's Beauty
...The river bends, and the river breaks.
The mind, so pliable, so fragile.
In relation in the oddest ways.
The river effortlessly wanders through the landscape,
The mind effortlessly travels throug...
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Categories:
embellish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
maternal mermaid
...life ~ a marine carousel of soul-cracks
an odyssey of thorns and memories,
a reverie
of regrets and roses.
and I a mere spectator
of my own circus~
I remin...
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Categories:
embellish, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Afterglow
...
Afterglow
When soon I quit this mundane scene
I `d wish to leave, unknown, unseen
...
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Categories:
embellish, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
The nanosecond bad **** to risk romance
...The nanosecond bad a** to risk romance
Twenty first century technology
allows, enables, and provides
instantaneous virtual unconsummated love.
Within the course of a texting or sexting sessio...
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Categories:
embellish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year...
finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories:
embellish, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Beauty of being Seventy Two
...I do not embellish the truth.
I cough it out
Letting it land on the table
Ooze along on the floor
Touching people’s shoes
Slithering along the sidewalk in front and in back of me
My truth as I ...
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Categories:
embellish, age,
Form: Free verse
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