The Oculus Between Us
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Written: September 2nd, 2025, for Contest Sponsored By Rob Carmack
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You touched me with a selfish grace—
a twist of tenderness,
a lover’s rage wrapped...
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Categories:
emulous, analogy, change,
Form: Free verse
Calyx of the Noosphere
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Written: August 17, 2025, for contest sponsored by: Rob Carmack - Placed 2nd in the contest
Quote“Let there be no boundaries. When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thous...
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Categories:
emulous, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
Our effervescence
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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"
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Categories:
emulous, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Ripples In Space
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Ripples in Space
Entwined with universal mind
Aligned with pulsations of love
Yet what soul seeks, we’re yet to find
Void and form not quite hand in glove
Will of God an...
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Categories:
emulous, spiritual,
Form: Quatern
Cupidity, Confabulation and Their Cosy Custody of Crime Royal
...His point-blank, most promising laurel lost
Long, long his e'er-lasting longing lingers
His muse becomes bedridden under freezy frost
Yet his nikhedonic mindscape ne'er malingers
Surging from mo...
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Categories:
emulous, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme Royal
A Depressed Ant
...Watching the marching ants, while I wondering their monotonous strife,
A weary one left the line, away he walked to a lonesome land.
Hands on head with faltering gait, dearth of joy he wandered a b...
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Categories:
emulous, animal, death, irony, life,
Form: Free verse
The Haunted House
...The Haunted House
Abandon all hope on haunted hill enter the house with a bitter chill
Walking bold with a thrashing thrill breaking through the rusted grille
The door slams shut a...
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Categories:
emulous, dark, house, scary,
Form: Quatrain
Fate's Footfalls
...Fate's Footfalls
'Crimson Tides of the Underverse'
Ladders we climb, greasing the grime, in mountains of malignant moral
Committing our crime, with rhythm and rhyme, impending ...
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Categories:
emulous, destiny, fate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Nigeria Had I Own You
...My dear fervent land of emulous miserere,
Had I be your creator or swish despot care,
Whose cloat can awe beyond exalted gild,
Then you'll bloom than grass, and wet sild,
River Benue, and Niger...
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Categories:
emulous, absence,
Form: Ballad