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Yah-nee-see
...He tells me That his mother says my name when she looks into your eyes And that you've been losing sleep, my face haunts you late at night Each time he seeks my touch your walls, they sym......

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Categories: engrained, 12th grade, betrayal, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Honor Thy Fathers and Thy Mothers
... From the sweat flowing down the laborer’s brow, the cuts and callouses etched into their hands, to the steely determination engrained on their furrowed faces, freedom was born and fed. A......

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Categories: engrained, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rainless November
... Resembling my soul, November leaves seem exhausted, slumbering under sleeping trees, gently rustling in the breeze. Selfish skies are covered in grey clouds, but the angst in the air remains s......

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Categories: engrained, angst, death, father, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Riverside - Marc Chagall
...somewhere a thought is projected dappling on all present did it start inside my skull? I don't ask but it bounces into a counter argument tussles start all completely invisible to the naked......

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Categories: engrained, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Leopard Leaps
...I need a fix and it is so strange This addiction to poetry is a stain Like a birthmark on my rainbow brain Can't shake it off for it is engrained I hear white word and it leopard leaps Into vi......

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Categories: engrained, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Patterns ReplaY
...Woe to pain in heart Time ticks tremendously so Torn apart from the start Engrained with patterns In my mind frame, discerning What is evil or good… Clear as water here Murky rivers and ......

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Categories: engrained, angst, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Real Boy
...I walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale; Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being. Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall, Of which calcite chambers temper;......

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Categories: engrained, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse
A Stomped On Heart
...My whole nervous systems fried There's a day I haven't cried From the feelings I've bounced all around--it's like you pounced On a heart you suffocated That can't be resuscitated My life force ......

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Categories: engrained, abuse, grief, pain, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member HURTING VISION-
...My eyes sore Redden in pains Pupils dilated engrained Blurred visions Mind comprehends not bored Should have been forgiven I’m a witness to my mess I am forgiven and yet To my s......

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Categories: engrained, analogy, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Can Never Forget 911
...We can never forget 9/11 We will forever remember such a date A date that will live in infamy A date that has everything in it: Sadness, fire, death, destruction and bravery Heroism, sickness an......

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Categories: engrained, bullying, cry, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pouring Out My Heart
...Pouring out my heart, it’s devoid of all blood Perhaps more knotted, resembling of redwood Splinters and shavings, fall away with each thud Can’t escape this logjam, only wish I could Pouring......

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Categories: engrained, how i feel, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Importance of the Alternative Perspective
...Importance of the Alternative Perspective Contortions of my sentient being Distortions of my inclinations to dream Proportions of truth deciphering what it all means Abortions of opinion as t......

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Categories: engrained, life,
Form: Rhyme
Kindness and Lament
...Kindness and Lament Money never to be found or spare Funny how people just sit there and stare Honey now you know this really isn’t fair Sunny for those who genuinely care Affection for thos......

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Categories: engrained, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Street
...The street seemed so much smaller now The grime and the smell were still the same though Engrained like the people who lived there It was the only thing that never left him She stayed at ......

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Categories: engrained, death, love, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rhapsody Recitation
...clothed in drama a pentecost poetic chiastic three stanzas long the Spirit outpoured in the Day of the Lord portents predicted& prescribed called out ......

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Categories: engrained, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse

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