GRIEF-STRICKEN
...In life’s lowest moments, it is challenging to gather the strength to rise again.
The hurt and pain decapitate your reasoning. Your functions and extremities are paralyzed, it's like falling into an...
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Categories:
exacerbates, hurt,
Form: Bio
All Talk, No Action
...
They are now but cash cows
(a trough in which to quaff)
for the many attendees
who sit on long-winded
Government-funded investigation committees
no one around to hear the soun...
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Categories:
exacerbates, animal, corruption, earth, how
Form: Rhyme
DETACHED
...A PITCH BLACK NIGHT WITH A LOUD SILENCE AROUND ME EXACERBATES MY FEARS
WAITING FOR DAWN TO SET, I CRINGE MY TEETH AND UNDERGO INVOLUNTARY SHAKING AND A COLD SWEAT. TREPIDATION RADIATES DEEP DOWN ...
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Categories:
exacerbates, anxiety, deep,
Form: Bio
Admonitions Concerning Poetry Competitions
...Tasks, by their very nature
are often painful to perform.
Polysyllabic pedantry exacerbates undertakings unnecessarily.
Strict contest-runners rate your
adherence to the stipulated norm.
Would...
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Categories:
exacerbates, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
So - - - 2024
...Resolutions for the year,
Does anybody keep them?
But just for kicks
I'll make myself a list then . . .
Be up by seven - no - eight
In the morning.
Keep snooze as a backup
For a more relaxe...
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Categories:
exacerbates, funny,
Form: Verse
The Winter Storm
...Arctic opens giant mouth
Blows chilled breath
Across the frozen tundra
Down, down across state after state
Heading south, southeast dipping deep
Poet sits with chilled ankles and feet
By ...
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Categories:
exacerbates, weather,
Form: Imagism
Our Beautiful Blue Planet
...Our beautiful blue planet is in pain;
Rebuffing failed attempts to put things right,
climate change but exacerbates the strain.
The Earth will never be the same again,
and because Man c...
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Categories:
exacerbates, angst, anxiety, appreciation, earth,
Form: Villanelle
Personal Productivity Measured Courtesy
...Personal productivity measured courtesy...
Unspecified number of hours spent
many yesterdays ago since March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.
P...
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Categories:
exacerbates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Crack of Dawn
...storm exacerbates
engulfed life in surroundings
pristine crack of dawn
Date: 01-02-2022...
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Categories:
exacerbates, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
The Burt Reynolds
...Time’s never obliged ~
Heedless, impetuous fame
Exacerbates traits…
But factitious facades fade
UV-rays on gelcoats, craze…
Retouch, unfinished ~
Tide oblivious, streams on
Rising and ebbing...
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Categories:
exacerbates, age,
Form: Tanka
Personal Productivity Measured Courtesy
...Personal productivity measured courtesy...
Unspecified number of hours spent
yesterday March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.
Proud papa highly...
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Categories:
exacerbates, 12th grade, blue, character,
Form: Rhyme
Viral Verbosity
...Deliberately debating a debilitating disease,
Excruciates and exacerbates existential ease.
Loquaciously lugubrious her lacrimonious wailing,
Instilled in me an ignominy of incongruous assailing.
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Categories:
exacerbates, humor, nonsense,
Form: Acrostic
Chaos In America
...Pandemonium
Pandemic
Frightening
Forest fires
Polar bears dying
Climate change
Depleting ozone layers
Exacerbates cancers and cataracts
Mask versus no mask
Political parties fightin...
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Categories:
exacerbates, usa,
Form: Free verse
The Mask Has Slipped
...I'm disillusioned of this modern world
This quantum, promise-palter singularity most days leaves me hollow like empty Technology
Picture an old colour tv- tubeless workless-
abandoned on an urb...
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Categories:
exacerbates, angst, betrayal, career, destiny,
Form: Didactic
Ouch That Hurts
...Drifting dreamily
betwixt and between
just before waking
as dawn slowly breaks
a tranquil place
I love to be
stretching gently
my legs from sleep
when
suddenly
my peace is shattered...
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Categories:
exacerbates, hurt, morning, pain,
Form: Free verse
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