At The Side
...Dark days have come and gone and I am still lingering on the lawn, long painful nights have robbed me of my sleep and sometimes it makes my spirit weep. I have already ran a thousand mile and the sha...
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Categories:
finalize, america, blessing, business, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Act Not Nice
...Written By: D. Collins 11/21/24
Act not nice in the presence of extravagant beauty.
When it stares you in the face, minus a big booty.
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Categories:
finalize, perspective,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Box Office
...Run to the box office and pick up the musical score, run to the box office the patrons are flooding the floors; you need more chairs to fill the open space, you need extra security guards at the door...
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Categories:
finalize, america, beauty, business, care,
Form: Narrative
twirling
...I’m just twirling in the center of my room.
I’ve got way too much to do.
Has that ever happened to you?
I’m assailed, derailed and impaled by indecision.
I can’t find my lucky pencil and I have...
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Categories:
finalize, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Hurt in the code
...Broken wings
slurred speech
cracked halos all around me
Shattered heart
unmade plans
fake apologies and unheld hands
To many hurt to many gone to many kids continue to be taught wrong
It...
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Categories:
finalize, anger,
Form: Free verse
A New Rhythm
...Everyone is dancing to a new rhythm forcing everyone to sing, the notes are right, the message is tight and this rhythm is causing a fight. Many people are happy with it but many still don’t understa...
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Categories:
finalize, age, appreciation, change, community,
Form: Narrative
The Poetry of One So Dear
...The poetry of one so dear
Is poignant to the soul
The images of love appear
To dissipate the toll
Our minds are called to witness
What are hearts cannot deny
The future of our fitness
To be ...
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Categories:
finalize, appreciation, destiny, love, self,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 86 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Young Solomons Exclude Desharah
...Date December 31. 2040
Damian Stood on the ground floor
Of the new Mansion while
GrandDad Hakim rested In the
Living room watching TV. The
First level was half complete.
Damian thought the...
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Categories:
finalize, angst, emotions,
Form: Alliteration
Burnt
...Burnt wood, carved deep
Adrift in seas, the essence of sleep
blades bleed, cuts seep
create mysteries
the glass is in a fractured age
is vast finalize run
Around a forgotten sun
Of bur...
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Categories:
finalize, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Ghost of Carton Color
...Let us the issues finalize:
Two more topics just analyze
One can narrative summarize;
On dryness water canalize...
Why ghosts in places crystallize:
If dreams through them materialize?
Ghost ...
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Categories:
finalize, addiction, allusion, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Tragi Comedy Contest
...To all those who have placed entries in the above contest
I am unable it seems to finalise the contest I have chosen
Winners and locked it.' Yet the finalize button stays stubbornly
Dull.' I will ...
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Categories:
finalize, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Pastel Purple
...It’s 6:15pm. Peter, Anna, Sophy and I are studying in the common room of our suite.
“We need to get serious,” Peter whispered, but there was no subject in the declaration, so I was left confused a...
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Categories:
finalize, conflict, confusion, humor, identity,
Form: Free verse
My Ultimate Price
...What would you do, if it was asked of you
Would you give up everything, or remain true
Would you make the sacrifice?
Chance your fate and roll the dice
Sign away your life and morals
Sitting bac...
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Categories:
finalize, dark, funny, silly,
Form: Couplet
The Plot's the Thing
...I usually try to write poems with a plot,
Sometimes pithy, and sometimes not.
My muse and I team up as one,
But if she bails before it's done,
And I can't finalize what's within,
I'm left withou...
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Categories:
finalize, humor, muse, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Irreconcilable Paradox
...*Image of Paradox of a Mindfoolness.
Irreconcilable Paradox
The midnight sun casts about clear shadows amidst a
twilight noon, 'tis yesterday.
The windy gale b...
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Categories:
finalize, confusion, imagination, irony, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
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