Gone
...He puffs in the nightly brume
His noctambulous proclivity
He calls it, a force of habit
Something automatic
Tonight is especially morbid
Atrabilious even
As he hunches gaunt
Over her headstone...
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Categories:
enervated, bereavement, men, mental health,
Form: Free verse
An Unused Currency Note
...I pulled over my car to the side of the highway road.
And went to an inn to get my hunger satiated.
An old beggar woman raised her frail hand and bowed to me.
She was looking gaunt, bony and fully...
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Categories:
enervated, emotions, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
...Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural pallia...
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Categories:
enervated, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Way Things Really Were
...O, the nights we couldn't stop sweating
the porch no cooler than our rooms
Enervated, we drove down to the lake
where 'shore patrol' lowered the boom
All those appliances that too often fai...
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Categories:
enervated, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Joie De Vivre
...It all could have been less serious,
more fun and played with more exuberance,
but like the lone tragedian
with his oft repeated dramatic scripts
we played ii out as an adversity,
a roll call o...
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Categories:
enervated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tears of Joy
...***Hope springs eternal, and I agree***
Tears Of Joy
Unlike the alleviating silence of a forest
...
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Categories:
enervated, celebration, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Rosebeds-A Poem From a Dying Wife To a Dead Husband
...R- rare is the person , i have lost, red are the roses i still have, to remind me of what all he had cost.
O- oh! my lord , keep him safe , protect him always if demons attack just in case.
S- ...
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Categories:
enervated, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Gasping For Droplets of Air
...The day broke muggy and gray
Dewdrops sizzle on gooey asphalt
and burn holes in parched lawns
Outdoors discriminates not between
craftsmen's rank sweat and
day laborer's grime
...
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Categories:
enervated, city, environment, pollution,
Form: Imagism
Elixir of Life
...In the fragility of dreams
With my eyes wide open
At the onset of daylight
Crawling tint of lilac hues
Sparkle dew drops on lilies
Engulf my soul in blues
To see the world alive
I...
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Categories:
enervated, dream, hope, strength,
Form: Free verse
Winter Solstice 2019 In Northern Hemisphere
...Saturday, December 21 Military Time 2319
(According to website:
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-
essentials/everything-you-need-
to-know-december-solstice.)
Hark the herald angels sing
yea, ...
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Categories:
enervated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
An Archangel Visit
...Enervated, body aching;
five sleepless nights,
a caregiver’s winter;
too lethargic to leave the chair.
Bed was a million miles away;
rest even farther from my weary constitution.
W...
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Categories:
enervated, angel, poems, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Cold Feet
...Enervated and energized after cold shower
the perfect tonic to gin body though o'clock
wee hours August thirty one two thousand
nineteen - natural buzz to stave off relished
sleep, thus refueled ...
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Categories:
enervated, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sojourn
...More than eleven thousand days have passed since I started this voyage.
Laughters, anguish, challenges, setbacks, achievements;
These shaped me into who I am presently
Resilient. Strong. Persiste...
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Categories:
enervated, conflict, depression, encouraging, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Bereavement of Light
...Bleary eyes soothe in somnolence of darkness,
an enervated sunset dreams in star speckled sky.
Love in dark movie hall, popcorns in wilderness,
a bereavement of light, where shades of gloom die...
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Categories:
enervated, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Death Is Kind
...All of us are born under the sentence of death-
and there is no reprieve, for death is the judge
and jury- The Grim Reaper sits waiting for the aged
while sheepishly it comes for those wh...
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Categories:
enervated, death, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
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