Externally Poems

Premium MemberInterview with Bikini Atoll

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Interviewer:
What is the original name for your island chain now called Bikini? 
What happened to it? 
What has it become here and now?
What is your future?
Bikini Atoll:
Well w...
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Categories: externally, home,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberART just my opinion N

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ART expressive elaboration executed externally...
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Categories: externally, art,
Form: Alliteration


Premium MemberA Gift of Life and Love

...Some say poetry is a dying art
Headed toward the dustbins of the latter,
Whereas I see it as an arrow flying 
Towards ideas and thoughts that matter. 

As photographs and videos 
At the speed o...
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Categories: externally, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Welcome New Year

...See your Intuition
Smell your Potential
Touch your Emotions
Taste your Experience
Unbox true calling
Harvest Greatness Internally


Set boundaries
Keep toxic persons, place outside
Optimise...
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Categories: externally, new year, new years
Form: Free verse

Butterfly effect

...Born with a blinding veil
Learned
Over time, to be fearful
When life suddenly blew your sail
Deterring us off course 
Learning how to fail
Made without worry
Judgment, or hate
In the beginnin...
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Categories: externally, age, art, beauty, care,
Form: Rhyme


Internal Conflict

...This internal conflict 
Holding all my secrets inside 
Is affecting the way I am externally seen
Reacting to unknown insecurities in secret
Because uneducated people
Stigmatize everything 
I go...
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Categories: externally, deep, society,
Form: Rhyme

NOISE ANNOYS

...NOISE ANNOYS

Externally it might emerge as a belch
Especially as the seltzer may just fizz
But inside, one may just hear the stomach squelch

Maybe a hiccup, well y...
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Categories: externally, onomatopoeia, sound,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium MemberThe Wind Rose

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If remembering  is hopeless, then it’s time to resign
But its easy to say, than to perform rightly 
Time shifts down slowly, crosses the final line
And red turns to brown, showing its time to fl...
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Categories: externally, destiny, family, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

MISFIT

...MISFIT

"I have been a stranger in a strange land"

Today I am free, in a land that I recognise
Unlike that time in that very strange land
And as a stranger, almost all was a surprise
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Categories: externally, atheist,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberThere was a Great Silence

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"There was a Great Silence"


There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in t...
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Categories: externally, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRap: Rules of the Street

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Internally unconventional, externally conform,
In the game of life, it's the norm.
Always watch yourself, like you're on a stage,
Avoid regrets, don't let your actions rage.

Bullies on the bl...
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Categories: externally, america, anti bullying, feelings,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMusings of Love

...“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope."
Rumi


in the kingdom of love,
nothing is simple,
not even musings,
so tel...
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Categories: externally, love,
Form: Carpe Diem

Twenty first century civilization gone I askew

...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...
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Categories: externally, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHomeless in the Rain

...The sky, heavy-laden with curdled black clouds,
Burst wide open, and all night long it rained.
It pitter-pattered on the panes,
And rattling on the slanting roofs.
It churned the dry soil to a pu...
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Categories: externally, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDATSON

...D is for desire, your thoughts do aspire. 
A is for attractive, internally and externally reactive
T is for tough, not hard but ten ply enough
S is for sincere, a pillar of truth to all you hold d...
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Categories: externally, inspiration, inspirational, muse,
Form: Acrostic

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