ALREADY GONE
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We did not notice at first—
the small rebellions of memory:
a forgotten kettle on the stove,
the absurd claim that Tuesday had vanished,
names reshuffled as if in a deck too often played.
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Categories:
eroded, caregiving, death, family, grief,
Form: Free verse
Ladder Sways in So Many Ways
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I linger, to pause for a while,
between the ladder rungs of what's been done below,
and what is yet to become above.
Below me stretches a dizzying array of tiers.
Each step is a relic of a deci...
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Categories:
eroded, fate,
Form: Free verse
Closer Than We Think
...The night arrives unexpectedly,
Shrinking the meadow,
Gradually, we become shadows,
Our youth, enthusiasm, and vitality eroded by time.
An evening spent with my father,
Time has tran...
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Categories:
eroded, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Love Mineral Number Twenty Three
...Te quiero , I love You,Ti amo,
there have been
songs endearing
some worth sharing
some I dare not
romantic lyrics
sounds you hear it
I Love You sounds great
when your the number one guy
tell...
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Categories:
eroded, analogy, business, film, money,
Form: Bio
The Sun Never Chooses Sides
...We walked under the same sky,
but carried different forecasts.
your silence was a sandstorm
and mine a drought.
Yet we mistook our survival
as our strength.
I was parched with waiting
and yo...
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Categories:
eroded, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Unite the Colors, lyrics
...Mankind generates the utmost malevolent deeds
Sustaining corruption and ignoring those in need
Beholding a mirror, peering at the countenance
Dereliction of the conscious is an annoya...
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Categories:
eroded, family, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Lyric
Decrepit days and months
...Suddenly a face in the mirror stares back,
You're growing old...silver hairs in black.
Evening twilight fades into a dark night.
Why do colours no longer look bright?
With small dark rings under ...
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Categories:
eroded, age, death,
Form: Couplet
Human Hyenas
...**Human Hyenas**
Since the dawn of humanity, the narrative surrounding creation has often placed Adam at the center, positioning him as the architect of the enchanting yet elusive Garden of Eden. ...
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Categories:
eroded, abuse, allusion, america,
Form: Narrative
It ain’t heavy it’s my boulder
...One must imagine Sisyphus’s
boulder, marble-sized these days
And Ozymandias’ plaque,
spinning despair into praise
Look on, ye hypocrites,
and sneer at my undoing
Your universe is a giant sand...
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Categories:
eroded, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Silence Listens
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In the deluge of the surging river of life
Flooding me with devastating agony
I feel my senses sink deep within
With the debris of somber spirit.
As from the eroded banks of existence
I ...
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Categories:
eroded, analogy, silence,
Form: Free verse
A Boating Accident
...Eroded,
undercut,
sagging for years beneath the weight
of a dead sycamore,
the bank gave way
when the lake was closed
and the dams opened up
during the winter overflow,
leaving the tree offsh...
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Categories:
eroded, boat, memory, water,
Form: Free verse
Water, 30 random word prompt
...The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumble...
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Categories:
eroded, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Ocean And The Sky
...All the moments that have led to now
play out—
projected onto the insides of my eyelids,
a film I’ve watched a thousand times.
And still,
it shakes me to my core.
Visions of the ineffable,
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Categories:
eroded, bereavement, courage, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
The tenth of the Stave
...The Wind arranged and rearranged
the sediment
the beauty of a sandy flat
eroded cr...
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Categories:
eroded, music,
Form: Ballade
Life is an Act
...Life is an Act
As life marches on swiftly
As clocks tick incessantly
We, the shadows of existence
Act out our scenes
On the glorious global stage.
Are we heroes, are we failures?
Does the audi...
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Categories:
eroded, africa, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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