Save the Beach House or the Beach
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the beach is public
but the beach house is private
when the sea erodes,
which is saved; you can't save both
saving houses erodes the beach...
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Categories:
erodes, beach,
Form: Tanka
MIME
...The owner's ten-story building
Rises up, whooshing, growing vast.
While the worker's humble two-sloped roof
Erodes and wastes in the wind's fierce blast....
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Categories:
erodes, dark, growth, house, life,
Form: Verse
Intrusive Thoughts
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Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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The Phantom Choir
In the quiescence of last Sunday,
Prophecy heralded the hour p...
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Categories:
erodes, bereavement, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Cry of the broken
...Your timing, O God, is flawless, they say,
Mercy spills from Your eternal edge.
I cling to that truth, yearning for solace,
Yet it slips as I bleed through the years.
Woes swarm like static, sh...
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Categories:
erodes, angst, anxiety, faith, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Psychological Manipulation
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Subtle strings are pulled,
Truth distorts, free will erodes,
Trapped in their design.
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Categories:
erodes, psychological,
Form: Haiku
Passions Unchained
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As the brilliance of the setting sun
creates ripples in the sea.
Your bikini kisses pure white sand,
setting naked beauty free.
Soft curvaceous flesh so smooth it glides
disappears beneath ...
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Categories:
erodes, beautiful, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
When I met you, you were already a broken vase
...When I met you, you were already a broken vase, sharp shards hidden beneath your cold and distant skin,
But I was still whole, believing love was the force that makes two souls forget their unhealed...
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Categories:
erodes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
You Laughed Your Head Back
...In memory that wouldn’t get upgrades
You stay, and you’ll remain there till I go
One day wasn’t circled on your calendar of dates
Now empty is the room we used to know
The August Macke painting o...
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Categories:
erodes, dedication, loss, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Elect
..."Our nation needs to prosper,
"Our people deserve to thrive,
"But the old ways do not foster,
"The betterment for which we strive!"
These words erupt at every campaign
And that part, at least,...
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Categories:
erodes, political,
Form: Rhyme
Is it truly death they fear, or the unraveling of their illusory self-importance
...Is it truly death they fear, or the unraveling of their illusory self-importance,
as they tread through existence, erecting fragile monoliths of their ephemeral legacy,
believing their names will r...
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Categories:
erodes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Amidst illusions of eternity, do they fear death or the loss of vanity
...Amidst illusions of eternity, do they fear death or the loss of vanity,
walking through existence, raising fragile monoliths of silent legacy,
believing their names will echo through the ages, as i...
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Categories:
erodes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Aureate Dreams
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Flood of anonymous agony
inundates the debris of hope,
weed-webbed wasteland
of receding reverie
erodes in delirium
within turbulent essence,
wreckage of life piles up,
unl...
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Categories:
erodes, analogy, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
The Perfect Storm
...A perfect storm on its treacherous course,
The wonder of nature and its powerful force.
In the storm's eye, it is calm and serene,
It's the mayhem around that lies in between.
A power unleashed...
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Categories:
erodes, earth, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Earth
...Earth
Trembles
A little
More each time with
Each barbaric act
We open up the sore
A glacier shrinks silently
Temperatures rise, its tears fall
Land erodes as each wave battles cliff
As we al...
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Categories:
erodes, earth,
Form: Etheree
In a world where reason becomes a cry lost in the wind
...In a world where reason becomes a cry lost in the wind,
we are born poor, binding thought with chains of iron,
like prisoners walking their shadows through concrete mazes,
where normality is a mas...
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Categories:
erodes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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