red dye
...Cover my eyes, to the red dye,
fading into shorelines
of the seagulls hungry and crying,
the sea's corpses of stench
chalk-lines where they pass dying,
freedom excels with silent sighs...
Passe...
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Categories:
excels, dark, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Do The Crime, Do The Time
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8/4/2025
Countless individuals
have become self willed.
Seems each day that passes
innocent people are killed.
Shootings and stabbings
have become the norm.
To society’s prescrip...
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Categories:
excels, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Self-Esteem Odes To
...From the words of my beloved partner~ he spoke I inked
She’s a clutch player who excels under pressure
She’s Johnny on the spot with tenacious resolve,
One who is extremely creative, a...
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Categories:
excels, tribute,
Form: Ode
His Reflection
..."You are just like your father."
These words ring in my head constantly,
Haunting me as I stare into the mirror.
I cannot bring myself to love the reflection I see—
The image of the man who exc...
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Categories:
excels, 12th grade, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 3
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech, wine, Paradise, poets, poetry, words and grief.
To hear my rose-bestrewing speech,
first place the flagon before me!
—Mirza Ghalib,...
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Categories:
excels, moon, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Free verse
To the like-minded girl strangers
...I am not a coward man de facto
Who has lots of curiosity courageous
With full of consciences in mind
Having to retreat from girl strangers
Who's looking for the Like-minded friends
Being you...
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Categories:
excels, age, appreciation, confusion, fate,
Form: Free verse
Poetrysoup Poets Limerick Collection
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Paula Goldsmith, you will know when I say
Always encourages us in her way
She's good for a lift
Poetry is her gift
“So have a blessed day writing away!”
Tom Woody the Poet guru
Who will nev...
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Categories:
excels, appreciation, character, dedication, friendship,
Form: Limerick
The Marvelous Platypus
...The platypus excels at evolution
And displays a super cool solution
For making his way amidst the muck,
He don't run aground. He don't get stuck.
Of this, the platypus would never d...
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Categories:
excels, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme
And Speaking of 'Z'
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A neglected letter is the 'z'
not as popular as a 'p'
nor as romantic as the 'r's'
In the panoply of letters, 'z' gets zero stars
Ah, but when it comes to animals
Why, 'Z' ...
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Categories:
excels, animal, language, success,
Form: Rhyme
sheep
...Sheep
I have read and published some of my old poems
when the world was mint fresh and I believed in the lady in the lake, I saw her swim a moonlit night
know I know she is not there, but a pro...
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Categories:
excels, 12th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Blank verse
My Transcendental Love Poetrix
...Excels the stare the of sun
exceeds the moon scintillation
transcendent universal love...
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Categories:
excels, love, metaphor, tribute,
Form: Free verse
A Woman We Call Queen- Tina Turner
...A woman we simply call Queen.
A singer loved by millions.
The Queen of Rock.
The Queen of Soul.
Yet, overshadowed by jealousy,
Of her beloved.
Thru many years of abuse,
She was forced to endur...
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Categories:
excels, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Beauty of Dream-Er
...Wandering in wasteland of doubt,
I search for a green vale carved out,
where with my dreams I want to be.
O God, be merciful to me.
The mirage I trace in desert,
want to cross cravin...
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Categories:
excels, analogy, beauty, dream, life,
Form: Kyrielle
Believing
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Believing
Miracle Man
5/26/2023
Start with doable goals and in faith believe,
for greatest knowledge we can ever achieve.
If rooted in choices from everyday living,
taking risks isn...
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Categories:
excels, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Just a Human
...The gray sky is exaggerating the darkness in my mind
I see faces laughing at me, all day and all night
Maybe I overthink or maybe I am right
Both instances haunt me, hunt me and hurt me
It's alwa...
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Categories:
excels, anti bullying, bullying, character,
Form: Free verse
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