Piloting My Own Corpse
...The world is quiet here
Yet growing louder by the day
Renting paradise from vultures
Split amongst two flavors of instability
I clamored and dreamed for that golden armor
That title that would...
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Categories:
empathize, allegory, change, death, religion,
Form: Free verse
Silence and Sound
...The tale of when our ancient world begins
when curious characters did abound,
such as the audibly contrasting twins,
who bore the common names Silence and Sound.
The mission Sound would always...
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Categories:
empathize, silence, sound,
Form: Sonnet
I Push On
...Strong, though softened by stillness. Handsome with no
hunger for approval. My mind is sharp, yet I resist its
blade, choosing silence over the storm of thought. I
feel deeply—but wear a mask o...
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Categories:
empathize, anger, anxiety, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
Tears Of A Clown
...Masquerading neath bitter angst,
nobody loves this neurotic
Sympathize—empathize with me
pleading, bleeding, but no one listens
Though, pleasing is the clown
with Infecti...
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Categories:
empathize, angst, crazy, deep, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Gentle Men in their Role as Mothers: Quest for Identity Protection
...Gentle Men as Mothers :Quest for Identity Protection.
Gentle he was with them, male and female -
His brothers and sisters from the start...
No giant in disposition, his tender thoughts
Spoke vo...
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Categories:
empathize, appreciation, bible, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Purpose
...Peach poetry flows like silver soul
Universal feelings from head to toe
Rises in surprises growing like red rose
People empathize bringing hearts close
Oh the purpose may be a story told
Some ...
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Categories:
empathize, animal, appreciation, bird,
Form: Acrostic
I feel I talk too much, incessantly
...I feel I talk too much, incessantly,
Not in a pleasant way, nor necessarily clumsily,
I speak as if revealing my soul,
Showing how uncertain I am, without a protective role.
I talk, unveiling all...
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Categories:
empathize, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Traumatic Testing
...Trauma
It is something not a lot of people can empathize with. It is as if it was the victim's fault for turning out like this. The victims' fault for letting their fragile hearts get shattered into...
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Categories:
empathize, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
In the shattered mirror of hollow empathy, I see fragments of myself drifting
...In the shattered mirror of hollow empathy, I see fragments of myself drifting,
Like ash butterflies dancing in the cold wind of unspoken truth,
And their words—"I can't empathize"—are silver arrows...
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Categories:
empathize, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
An Unheard Voice
...I know this could sound quite absurd.
Do you ever feel like you're not heard?
Whilst talking, people's blank expression.
Wrapped up inside their own obsession.
Works wonders for my own depressi...
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Categories:
empathize, anxiety, care, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
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Categories:
empathize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Empathizing
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Empathizing
Miracle Man
5/4/2024
We can’t feel some other’s pain but we can empathize,
we search our heart’s for comforting words to verbalize.
Pain we can’t feel,
To them, is so r...
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Categories:
empathize, feelings, pain,
Form: Limerick
Legend of Silence
...To the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds
and tilted tendrils
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of ...
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Categories:
empathize, emotions,
Form: Free verse
there's hope at the end - 2
...last night
i sensed its presence
the walls were slowly closing in
and soon
i know
i'll feel like I can't breathe
it's clenching down on my heart
the coldness spreading
draining out...
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Categories:
empathize, angst, depression, hope, how
Form: Free verse
The Turn of an Unfriendly Card
...Turn of An Unfriendly Card
(Tarot 3 of Swords)
I cannot empathize with a shattered heart.
That image of a fragile, breakable baby pink orb
Is insulting to how I feel.
The turn of an unfriendly...
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Categories:
empathize, endurance, grief,
Form: Free verse
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