Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...
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Categories:
envying, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Flower
...flowers that have flourished in winter
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny meadow,
the other still frozen in a fie...
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Categories:
envying, deep, flower, lost, love
Form: Free verse
Bars
...LC
I drop bars, that break bars, and start fights in dive bars
“Emotio est pons, amor est finis.”
I am the spark between the medulla oblongata
and the thalamus.
The protector of vertebrae,
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Categories:
envying, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to say
You are the sea—each wave not an argume...
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Categories:
envying, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Lyric
A Sister's Lament
...Is it wrong to feel jealous of my brothers?
Am I evil for envying their wild freedom,
For wanting, just once, to go where they go,
To dance to every beat, lose myself in the night?
They...
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Categories:
envying, africa, anger, emotions, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Gifts Speak to God all My Brethren-DO I LOVE-
...Speak tongues of men or angels
Making sense or noise
Gifts speak to God all my brethren
Do I love?
So we do love is patient, love is kind
No envying
No delight in evil rejoice in truth
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Categories:
envying, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Foul Bats
...Nosy minds in fall of night
Like foul bats envying the light
They're like fool dogs barking till dawn
Finding some dirt in other's lawn
They're all like puppets in a play
They are like so...
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Categories:
envying, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Resilient Peak Experiences
...Gayla Speak Experiences
promote healing events
not intended to contribute to trauma
drama narratives.
Stories we tell
and trust
and thrust
and softly smile about
when we dare to leave
our ...
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Categories:
envying, culture, health, integrity, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Workers Wage
...He remembers it before it arrives,
To collect a far one hundred miles drives,
To keep stalling payment his life deprives,
Better he ended up in beehives…
The end of every month full of meaning...
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Categories:
envying, business, career, cry, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife Trois
...Inevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning t...
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Categories:
envying, absence, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Claustrophobia
...The walls are closing in.
No matter what I say, I never win.
My life’s crumbling in my hands
Like it’s a stray rock, and I can’t see where it lands.
Everything’s falling apart before my eyes,
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Categories:
envying, 8th grade, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Winter
...Winter
Black cloud enshroud blue horizon while migrating birds tweet their last goodbye
Arctic winds weigh down bare naked branches watching blinding storms streak by
Above forsaken lodge ...
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Categories:
envying, courage, life, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
...Groundswell Of Emotional Blessedness
Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:
thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Faceboo...
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Categories:
envying, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
In a Powerful Way
...The Most High way, Abba Father,
your hands are full, always a-bless,
never ending- your palms of grace.
You are love…ing in a pow-er-ful way!
Hallelujahs forever born.
The light of...
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Categories:
envying, christian, fruit,
Form: Lyric
Live Your Life With a Purpose and Don'T With In the Wrong Crowd- Christen Kuikoua
...So precious yet so short
Life is indeed to us
Walking around in circles,
wasting around our time
Later, realizing that
Our selfish runs weren't important
Praising the wrong things
Wishing a ...
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Categories:
envying, 10th grade, absence, career,
Form: Free verse
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