Projection, perhaps
...I feel you pulling away, a slow retreat,
Each fleeting moment, my heart feels the heat,
With every hesitation, every word left unsaid,
The fire of my hope flickers, dims, and dreads.
I ...
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Categories:
equivocation, absence, fear, heartbroken, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Leather Piecemeal
...As mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive...
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Categories:
equivocation, art, beautiful, beauty, cute,
Form: Free verse
A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part I: ASKING
...Upon receipt of this paraphrase whenever it visits upon your person--free of dire straits and in trepidation, its infamous adage, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," subject to limits...
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Categories:
equivocation, analogy,
Form: Free verse
By Little Steps
...By Little Steps
By little steps
The world engulphs us;
Day by day our better Angels follow
Silent tread unseen
Their firey wheels
All full of eyes
See all we would conceal;
The self-deception...
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Categories:
equivocation, faith, introspection, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Through the funnel of time, we are hurried like the wind - it doesn't stop to whisper
...Through the funnel of time, we are hurried like the wind - it doesn't stop to whisper,
Life, swift and silent, flows in rivers of liquid sand.
With each fleeting moment, the profound avoids us, cam...
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Categories:
equivocation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
THANKFUL
...
THANKFUL
I am thankful for many things
Unlocking universal truths of life’s journey
we all share
Shared experiences that make me feel connected,
less alone and isolated
In all earnesty...
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Categories:
equivocation, feelings, thank you, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical Weltanschauung
...Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung
Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent em...
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Categories:
equivocation, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Perspicacity of Love
...Sprawling, open,free,desolate even, The vast sky enthralling in waves,correspondent to the plateaus and hills, the depths of which are fascinating even within the trained eye. For this design is fo...
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Categories:
equivocation, allusion, love,
Form: Free verse
A Thing Existential
...The sky is reflected in a flowing stream
In a distorted, rippled effect quite surreal,
One may think of it as a realistic dream.
It’s like hearing the distant church bells peal
On a...
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Categories:
equivocation, dream, nature, surreal, uplifting,
Form: Terzanelle
Quintessence
...QUINTESSENCE
an absence
of
fervent
intensity
in miniature
with
infinite
equivocation
an ambiance
of impressioned
sensations
a resurgence
of an elide
intermix
apparently...
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Categories:
equivocation, poetry, quinceanera,
Form: Other
If You Were a Poet
...If you were a poet
how would you write about me?
Would you flaunt my insecurities
or bury them deep?
Would you showcase my demons
or smother them in a blanket of equivocation?
If you wer...
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Categories:
equivocation, 10th grade, anxiety, first
Form: Free verse
A Colossus Part 2dedicated To All Who Served and All Who Are Serving Our Country
...Take care of her
Keeping toes and ties off the ground
Beware of those with savage intent
To draw her down
Beware those of quisling heart
Who seek only to pillage then plunder her
All those fa...
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Categories:
equivocation, america, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Ready Writers
...Let the pens of the ready writers proceed* Let their words be read and their voices heard
So untie...
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Categories:
equivocation, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Enchant Me
...ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer)
To the shared breath of life:
Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes,
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its n...
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Categories:
equivocation, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Let's Kick Back
...Well, dinner's done
Let's kick back, hon...
--You, sir, set with the sun
But I've just barely begun
Perhaps you'll help with the dishes
No? Not one of your wishes?
So, you can...
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Categories:
equivocation, anger, humorous, husband, wife,
Form: Couplet
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