Chocolate Heaven
...A profound sense of joy enveloped her as she gently kissed his fingertips.
He began to whisper and exhaled softly.
"Captivate me with your gaze. You are my exquisite treasure.
Fulfill the wish...
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Categories:
exhaled, age, angst, blessing, butterfly,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
TO AN ALLEGORICAL BREEZE OF WARM AIR
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TO AN ALLEGORICAL BREEZE OF NATURE
(Apropos Of A Warm Breath Of Air)
A sweet summer breeze;
An aromatic delight:
God’s warm exhaled breath:-
My our world’s lungs soon be filled
With God’s i...
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Categories:
exhaled, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Detroit vs Everybody
...How pretty
is the motor city
under neon diodes?
I sent my heart
into its stars
exhaled my soul
into rustbelt smoke
maybe I’ve lost my mind
or rather it’s left behind
my sanity abandoned
...
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Categories:
exhaled, adventure, city,
Form: Free verse
The cupboard light
...
It was nearly midnight
when he slipped out of bed,
careful not to wake her.
The house exhaled its silence—
walls warm with sleep,
timber creaking
from the day’s last heat.
He padded to...
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Categories:
exhaled, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soupris
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Poetry soupris
Soupris being French for sighs
And we all breathe them
At different times in our lives
We breathe them in relief
And maybe in our sleep
Exhaled after we've railed
Against th...
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Categories:
exhaled, allegory, french, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Silence Is Beautiful
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Poetry Contest //Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
( 1st Place )
Written: August 07, 2025
They say stillness is absence, an empty space between worth noting,...
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Categories:
exhaled, inspirational, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Cherry
...I write my ‘i’s differently now
—your letters etched themselves into my blood
I eat everything with chili
that burning sting is close enough to your kiss
I abandoned the blade. You’d be proud—
t...
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Categories:
exhaled, absence, dream, for him,
Form: Free verse
Minuet in the Dark
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The candle breathed a final sigh,
We let the dark come a drifting by.
Held you close, so soft, so near,
To find where your dreams appear.
As we slipped into the moonlit pond.
Awaiting the wade...
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Categories:
exhaled, love, senses, sensual,
Form: Lyric
High
...Hiding everything there was to say
spent ashes in a pile of the day
intentions inhaled and exhaled away
unspoken words of love going up in smoke.
...
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Categories:
exhaled, angst, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Midway Psalm
...The Ferris wheel, a spoked and sputtering crown,
Pinned back the velvet dark. We paid our fee
In crumpled bills, bought passage to the town
Where gravity forgot to work its shift for me.
Neon stu...
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Categories:
exhaled, meaningful, metaphor, peace, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Oxford Street
...I walked down the alleyways of London
Early one edgy Friday evening.
I am a touring, curious resident, mind you.
The sun was shy and was sinking breathlessly and
With the hushed melody of frazzle...
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Categories:
exhaled, city, london,
Form: Ode
Turiyatita
...body rests and senses recede
resting in the sheath of space-time
with thoughts rested, no dreams arise
all that remains is bliss beat’s chime
with void-centric focus maintained
without effort,...
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Categories:
exhaled, peace, silence, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
P H E W
...As the heat subsided
A cool grayness crept in
Exhausted shadows slept
Limp leaves exhaled hope
Open windows inhaled it
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Categories:
exhaled, weather,
Form: Free verse
BREATH-
...Breath
He had a layer of skin
That's wide open
He was suffering as he walked
He was buffering
Carelessly as a stride sought
He'll put his heart up while suffering
Why has it in...
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Categories:
exhaled, adventure, analogy, caregiving, life,
Form: Free verse
Red Quiet
...There is snow in my wounds—
Soft, crystalline lies
Melting slow into the bruises you painted
Like frost on raw skin.
Your words,
Those lovely razors,
Cut so elegantly
I mistook the sting for s...
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Categories:
exhaled, abuse, allegory, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
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