Extravagantly Poems

Buttermorphosis

...I recall the rural life of the butterfly
Extravagantly —that proud floating mass of wings.
Her wings flutter from sea to coast so eloquently,
Yet silent with the muteness of frightened breeze.
Th...
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Categories: extravagantly, butterfly, insect, life,
Form: Free verse

Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love

...Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Fatherhood exuberant and renowned is how you boys made me feel.
Exquisite was the taste of my tears as I felt the sensation of joy in both of your first cry’s!
The ...
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Categories: extravagantly, care,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberBE A SOMEBODY

...Write!  Anything. Be a dream writer
Write poeticly. Be about a spree! Take
Vacation from mundane. Be 
Astounding! Astonish YOURSELF!
HAVE WORD WEALTH! I am LONELY 
COME AND SEE. Visit me! Be jus...
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Categories: extravagantly, absence, africa, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPicturesque Propinquity

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Written: February 11, 2024
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Features: fugacious fascinating beat
I saw smoke, but no flames in sight
I caught a cynosure o...
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Categories: extravagantly, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse

The Darkness Above - La Devaz Edira

...Living in doubt when I should be faithful
I’m walking God’s route if you were wondering about me
What am I talking about? You wonder? Wow, I’m grateful
I have God’s light like an ember in a fire, ...
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Categories: extravagantly, emotions, hope, peace,
Form: Free verse


Dawn That Went From Awry Sad To Naught Bad - Glad I Made a Stand, So Grand

...dawn that went from awry sad to NAUGHT bad — glad I made a stand, So Grand

Dove into the waters that once consumed me
Will I ever be free? Will I ever be happy as can be?
Sea foam comes and goes...
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Categories: extravagantly, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberQuixotic

...In a world where dreams are rakish and quixotic,
Where quiddity seems extravagantly chaotic,
A chivalrous soul dares to be different.
With a heart that beats fervently, so magnificent....
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Categories: extravagantly, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Trauma Prevention Department

...Don't want to be stuck
in the Trauma Prevention Department.

Don't want to work that hard
on dogmatic compartments
for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT
governments
over-investing in caut...
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Categories: extravagantly, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Showtime

...SHOWTIME 

Holocaust swivelled at the turn of these events,
Stimulated by the wrath of a country's vent.
Time wasted and extravagantly spent
Until the shape of democracy brutally sees a dent?
N...
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Categories: extravagantly, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation

...I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subsid...
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Categories: extravagantly, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTogether We Shall Overcome

...Nigeria is on the precipice 
A country in dire need of redemption 
Blessed extravagantly by providence 
But ravaged ignorantly by
Leadership failure
Built on faulty foundation of
Impunity, corr...
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Categories: extravagantly, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Will Leave His Sanctuary Untouched

...Inspiration reaches out and grabs him before breakfast
He lives colors and patterns the way the rest of us breathe
Misunderstood and misused, he worries not about it.
This life means nothing; he s...
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Categories: extravagantly, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberRebirth

...REBIRTH
glories
of
a cultural flowering
a revival
  once barren
in a
traumatic fragmented
                schism
 a comeback
an
elaborate
   creative perspective
on crossed
    horizons...
...
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Categories: extravagantly, poetry,
Form: Other

Premium MemberRebirth

...REBIRTH
glories
of
a cultural flowering
a revival
  once barren
in a
traumatic fragmented
                schism
 a comeback
an
elaborate
   creative perspective
on crossed
    horizons...
...
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Categories: extravagantly, poetry,
Form: Other

Premium MemberX Marks the Spot

...X marks the spot
Where a young child had stood,
Enjoying his friends’ company as only
A young child could.

X marks the spot
Where the child lay dying,
Medics there to save his life, 
Despera...
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Categories: extravagantly, car, child, childhood, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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