ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE
...ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinki...
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Categories:
enveloping, 12th grade, mother, mother
Form: Haibun
He brought me to my knees
...He brought me to my knees so I could see His face.
As I fell on my knees, I got a view of His grace, and I knew I was in a good place.
He called me by name and I responded with joy. It was then tha...
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Categories:
enveloping, joy, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
THOSE WE LOVE
...Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor
ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the sciss...
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Categories:
enveloping, 12th grade, love, mother,
Form: Haibun
I watch the play of life on the stage of time, where shadows dance endlessly
...I watch the play of life on the stage of time, where shadows dance endlessly,
I see people without clothes and clothes without souls to wear them,
Some dance with joy, others with sorrow, their ste...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Con-Trast
...Con-Trast
I Know Your Sham-Rock Clovers
And Frilly Lacey Flower Hearts
All Tumble Out Of
Sweet Delusional
Hall-Mark Dreams...
With Plastered Faces
&
Screams Of Pleasure.
Rais...
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Categories:
enveloping, life,
Form: Free verse
I just hope time doesn't hate me too
...I just hope time doesn't hate me too,
I never meant to waste it, I swear I didn't,
I was just tired, tired of carrying silence like a curse,
Of pretending that solitude is a form of hidden strengt...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Starry Eyed Glistening Glide
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A cascade of swirls curled in the sky.
Enveloping a host of ghostly nebula galaxies,
glowing like a myriad of phosphorous flares,
sent aloft to glisten in starry, sta...
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Categories:
enveloping, art, moon, night, sky,
Form: Free verse
Deep within me, I feel inertia as a slow dance of stars trapped in their own light
...Deep within me, I feel inertia as a slow dance of stars trapped in their own light,
A Higgs field enveloping my soul like a heavy cloak of particles and burdened dreams,
This terrain of life keeps ...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
We Live in Denial
...In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,
Torching golden beams to de...
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Categories:
enveloping, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet
I have loved and been loved, floating on ivory wings of white and pure dreams
...I have loved and been loved, floating on ivory wings of white and pure dreams,
traveling through sapphire skies where scarlet ecstasy calls to me in secret,
touching silver stars that shine like th...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the whirlwind of my thoughts, every question spins like an unwavering storm
...In the whirlwind of my thoughts, every question spins like an unwavering storm,
a slippery enigma that escapes every attempt to grasp it in my palms,
a million whispers dance in my mind, day and ni...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the labyrinth of my thoughts, an endless waltz of shadows
...In the labyrinth of my thoughts, an endless waltz of shadows,
I step on the edges of my soul, where angels shed feathers of memories,
their wings, birds of light, beating a rhythm locked in the vau...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
God's Radiant Light
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We are God’s children, and precious are we,
but we should listen to what He had to say
to his disciples, who gave us His words.
God told them that He was the way.
“I am the way, the truth, an...
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Categories:
enveloping, god,
Form: Rhyme
Under the veil of night, when the stars sing their silence, a wave of fire flows like living water
...Under the veil of night, when the stars sing their silence, a wave of fire flows like living water,
enveloping the gathered crowd, called by priests to receive the Holy Light,
and the hymn of the R...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Under the sky laden with mystery, where the wind sings its endless tales
...Under the sky laden with mystery, where the wind sings its endless tales,
Life begins to sketch your outlines, even when you are not prepared,
Just as a tree does not know how to bend until the win...
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Categories:
enveloping, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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