Gaza's Mothers
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In Gaza, the mothers don’t sleep, waiting in darkness, listening to the sky that’s been raining death -- nothing to inspire a fairy-tale to lull their children to sleep, their ears sharpened to ...
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Categories:
exceeds, mother,
Form: Free verse
TOUCH
...TOUCH :- to come in contact of someone/something
or feeling something against the skin.
How ordinary the word is,
How ordinary the definition is,
However, the sensation is not.
While pressin...
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Categories:
exceeds, perspective, sensual,
Form: Free verse
silver anklets
..."When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic.
When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
-Quote by Confucius
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feminine luxury...
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Categories:
exceeds, culture,
Form: Free verse
What Makes me Smile
...What makes me smile?—For one: the grin of life;
but, too, its touch of giggle grazing on
my ticklish skin,—Though soon again withdrawn,
yet long lingers in memory, full, rife.
This makes me s...
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Categories:
exceeds, appreciation, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Summer Solstice 2025
...Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories:
exceeds, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Purpose?
...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.— and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—
to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...
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Categories:
exceeds, art, creation, devotion, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Wisdom of Age
...That age brings wisdom, mainly aged say,
And yet, there comes a calm as passion dies;
And as a poet said another day,
The old, as good for nothing else, be wise.
What would I wish a younger me ha...
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Categories:
exceeds, age, career, life, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
River's Beauty
...The river bends, and the river breaks.
The mind, so pliable, so fragile.
In relation in the oddest ways.
The river effortlessly wanders through the landscape,
The mind effortlessly travels throug...
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Categories:
exceeds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whispering trees
...Listening through the surrounding
trees.
Sound of whispers heard from a slight breeze.
Cries heard in the distance, as the breeze
comforts The leaves.
Words joined together while starting to hea...
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Categories:
exceeds, abuse, anger, art, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
a shatter of silence
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“A fight of voice exceeds one of fists.”
Bludgeoned, broken, cast away,
Time devours, your name decay,
Ascend beyond the gilded throne,
Unsung, unrested, still overthrown.
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Categories:
exceeds, angst, appreciation, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Is it as it seems
...A bottle of water,
Bought from the store,
Could be used once,
Then thrown to the floor.
A can of soda,
From the shop,
Once used, discarded,
No need for more pop.
If I look at it,
From a ...
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Categories:
exceeds, introspection,
Form: Free verse
In Origin
...In origin, all form in chaos lay:
One wilderness of warped and seething spray.
Thus, intermixed lay Earth and Sky and Sea,
Until a cooling calm let order be.
Cool crystallized, the Earth and Sea ...
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Categories:
exceeds, earth, flower, garden, god,
Form: Rhyme
The River Styx
...On the bank of the river Styx,
Life and death and forever mix,
There’s no keeping who its water picks,
Say farewell by the river Styx.
I lived my life in the land of light,
Yet now I cross to ...
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Categories:
exceeds, absence, bereavement, cry, death,
Form: Lyric
Softcore Anatomy
...Within the cage, that which surrounds the core
There is much to behold
Muscles, ire, veins, blood
And one eternal liver
Selfishly withholding a wisdom that very few reach
Burrowed there, betw...
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Categories:
exceeds, dark, humanity, power, writing,
Form: Free verse
When Corruption Exceeds All Boundaries
...The president is charged and convicted
Corrupt senators are handcuffed
Greedy congressmen are imprisoned
Prostitution is doomed and prohibited
And the constitution is amended.
The Justice depa...
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Categories:
exceeds, bullying, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
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