Fallibility Poems

Premium MemberThe Chaos in My Heart

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I don't know of anyone who's been successful 
in an attempt to capture the encumbrance 
of a love pledged and then withdrawn,
nor how to heal a heart from its fallibility.

So, I'm left wo...
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Categories: fallibility, lost love,
Form: Free verse

What Do We Want As People And As Country

...Philippines is in great danger right now
I sense deceitfulness and betrayal here
My leader is feeling great and  proud
It seems everything is in control
He's doubling the greatness of his father
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Categories: fallibility, future, people, political, social,
Form: Political Verse


Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHO DELIGHTS IN OUR THANKSGVING SACRIFICE

...February 8 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 22-23

Key Verse – Leviticus 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will....
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Categories: fallibility, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Memberimplement -

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* Artists of every kind, I believe, are but tools for something far grander … what that is, I’ll leave to the philosophers. *

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bend …

your voice to me
tickle my tympans with a
w...
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Categories: fallibility, analogy, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe unknown

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                                            What is this?
                                Abstract, uncertain and elusive
                                     Myriad colors drowned
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Categories: fallibility, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAn Elegy for a Fallen Bridge: Baltimore’s Night of Tragedy

...As night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had slipped away,
Bearing goods for far-off lands,...
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Categories: fallibility, death, horror,
Form: Elegy

Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for Humanity

...The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the ...
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Categories: fallibility, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForgive Me

...For your slain heart of wounds
Of my contrition's aching
Remorse of love's fallibility
Giving my tears
In a sad memory of my iniquity
Valley of military slumber
Eternal rows of unfinished dream...
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Categories: fallibility, bereavement, betrayal, death, depression,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberLord God, You Are My Pride Confounder

...August 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 48-50

Key Verse – Jeremiah 48:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come...
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Categories: fallibility, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Enigma For the Ages

...Inspired by by the brilliant TV show, "Justified": Episode 12, "Fathers and Sons" of Season 1. 

Enigma for the ages
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

She enters silently
The room is half-lit and...
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Categories: fallibility, heart, love, passion, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn End-Of-Year Self-Assessment

...How do I write a poem about me,
What story is there to tell?
Do my words paint pictures,
Do they cast a spell?
What would someone say if he wrote a critique
About what it is that makes me unique...
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Categories: fallibility, introspection,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberInk and Sand - the Test

...Ink and Sand - The Test
Ink and sand... the test
  The last stain of ink on our Constitution,
is legible until the moment the last grain of time measured falls.

  Thoughts, ideals and de...
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Categories: fallibility, america, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Rights That Come Without Responsibility

...Those who thinks rights do not come with responsibility, 
Have not thought about the probability,
Of their own fallibility,
Or their degree of naivety, 
When it comes to their ability, 
To avoid...
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Categories: fallibility, absence, allusion, betrayal, cheer
Form: Grook

Premium MemberMeternity

...I used to be teen suicide, less full of myself
to wonder a future unknown borrowing a want 
of perfection in strength of movement, a posture of 
glazed movement, gymnastic skills of love, purposef...
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Categories: fallibility, allusion, appreciation, childhood, creation,
Form: Free verse

The Gift

...A burden. But a burden worth bearing. For whoever the bearer, must confess, his nature. 
His irrational ways. His desire for power. His manipulative methods. His fallibility. For he must criticize, ...
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Categories: fallibility, character, depression, self,
Form: Free verse

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