Echoes of Blindness
...I grew up blind
The kind that fades away with the gaping eye of knowledge
word on the tip of every patriotic tongue was independence
Little did my shut brain know, sham was a better word for it
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Categories:
faultlessly, allegory, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Partisanship
...Partisanship
Is a towering ship
Complete with a hoisted flag,
Not a flying, dying rag
Her height chasing Heaven,
Her crew certain that she is a haven;
The Civil Service only
To not on her emba...
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Categories:
faultlessly, devotion, emotions, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Sailor
...Away at sea
All she can think about
Is him
The way his eyes
Follow her
And never let her stray too far
The way his lips
Brush against her ear
And whisper promises
Of adoration
The way...
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Categories:
faultlessly, absence, desire, missing, sea,
Form: Free verse
Sublimated
...She knows from an early age, her mother’s hand upon her shoulder, she
Understands what is expected, what is right, what her role is: to be
Below those who bald, who wear one ring as opposed to two,...
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Categories:
faultlessly, emotions,
Form: Acrostic
Little Proton
...When I closed my eyes they swirled before me,
like little atoms, protons in my hands,
little worlds of their own.
The colours and the sounds, the smells.
When I opened my eyes for the fir...
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Categories:
faultlessly, emotions, inspirational, smile,
Form: Free verse
Made-To-Order
...seemed to
have
wanted a
made to order
custom-made
tailor-made
ideal person
to be at beckon
call
an individual
who was
expected to
always
perfectly
faultlessly
flawlessly
gi...
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Categories:
faultlessly,
Form: Lyric
Thou Shall Not Fall
...Within opulent oblivions of misconceptions
We lay the dormant dreams of redirections
Factitiously falling into the antagonizing abyss
Relinquishing the love we misguidedly miss
In search of ill...
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Categories:
faultlessly, analogy, identity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Flautist
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE FLAUTIST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE FLAUTIST fluently flaunted her flute- Music flew faultlessly through the airwaves, flying fluidly above the noise of the bluste...
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Categories:
faultlessly, appreciation, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Lighthouse - Lighthouse Rhopalic Verse Contest
...The coastal lighthouses, intervening
in many dangerous undercurrents.
it's beacon interacts vigorously
as vessel realigns, manoeuvring
past many obstacles undistinguished
by any obvious visio...
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Categories:
faultlessly, sea,
Form: Verse
Meanings
...This husband is double-crossing his wife and she is suspicious
That her ‘for better, for worse’ trusted husband is promiscuous
He is called before the gods of verdict and fate: so...
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Categories:
faultlessly, husband, language, trust, words,
Form: Rhyme
Mother In the Cage
...SHE SHOWN UP
AS BRIGHTER AS DAYS
SEARCHING FOR MEANS
TO CALL IT A DAY
FOR HER FAMILY
FAULTLESSLY ENCOUNTERED
THE BIG ASPECT OF LIFE
HEREAFTER SHE WAS GAOLED
FOR AN OFFENCE NOT COMMITED
JUSTICE CLAMOU...
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Categories:
faultlessly, abuse, africa,
Form: Concrete
Is She the One...
...As I watch her rhythmic movements, her beauty entrances me,
Never have I seen such magnificence, she’s as perfect as she can be;
When I saw her for the first time, she stopped me in my tracks,
A...
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Categories:
faultlessly, animals, funny, love, naturebeauty,
Form: Couplet
To Have a Rainbow
...I need you, like I need the sunlight.
I want you, like I want for spring.
You’re deep inside my heart for a reason.
The reason’s you’re my everything,
Wonderful. Colorful.
It feels so good to me...
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Categories:
faultlessly, happiness, love, nature, song-uplifting,
Form: Lyric