Love and its victims
...The silence that envelops,
Only when peaceful,
When my heart is full enough to sleep,
Filled with the newest memories.
They are sported like new technology,
Not so limited, but loved and investe...
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Categories:
flippantly, appreciation, best friend, crush,
Form: Free verse
the sensualist
...I’m a bit of a sensualist.
First, let me emphasise emotional resonance,
there has to be an emotional base,
not just an appreciation of hotness.
Then, there’s a sense of longing and mystery—
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Categories:
flippantly, beautiful, boyfriend, feelings, friend,
Form: Free verse
More Than Ink
...
I Adamantly Refuse to Care or Show Concern,
After All
I Served Sincerely and Genuinely, Now I Sever
Hoaxed Mundane Emotions that No Longer Appeal to My Growth
Flippantly Burning Icy Bridges
T...
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Categories:
flippantly, betrayal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Remnants of Despair
...I still remember your easily smiling face, poetry spilling from your lips
Singing joyfully at the dead of night, not a care in the world.
Oh how I miss your face when it was alive,
When it was not...
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Categories:
flippantly, 11th grade, miss you,
Form: Free verse
adverbs are my favorites
...adverbs dress up ordinary verbs
easily, quickly, confidently,
jokingly, suspiciously, cagily,
demurely, purely, delicately,
deliberately, justifiably, undeniably,
jubilantly, whimsically flippan...
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Categories:
flippantly, words,
Form: Free verse
Imposter Syndrome
...We see ourselves unimpeded initially
Some are stricken with a view artificially
We are told by others very specifically
There is a ceiling so proceed timidly
We try in vain with no supp...
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Categories:
flippantly, psychological,
Form: Monorhyme
NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
...POTD 8th Jan 24
NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE
The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moo...
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Categories:
flippantly, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Babylon Candy
...
"Babylon Candy"
“My god you
babble on”
he said.
the guy
thought he was
a giant,
as far as writers go.
She chirped,
“it’s all post humus
humour, from he...
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Categories:
flippantly, journey, muse, mystery, satire,
Form: Narrative
5 Unlikely Methods
...1.)
I read a poem about a dream and so, I try to
track my dreams, I try to catch them in my pillow case.
All night- I flip back to back, flippantly- up and down.
Keeping a cool face, hugging m...
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Categories:
flippantly, identity, january, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Rise - Arise
...Rise - arise
Maybe this depression
Was simply a repression
Of my freedom of expression,
Especially when my thoughts
Descend and turn into should and ought.
Maybe I’m scared of the commotio...
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Categories:
flippantly, blessing, courage, deep, longing,
Form: Rhyme
A Mean Scout
...He was a Mean Scout,
This showing with a pout,
His Upper Lip and The Lower out:
Just finer than a pig’s snout!
He was a Coarse Scout,
Readiness showing for a bout,
With knees at the mercy o...
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Categories:
flippantly, abuse, conflict, evil, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Confessions of a Failure
...When failure hits you hard,
you realise you have played all your cards.
Stuck in a room with just yourself,
you inner voice filled with hatred can turn you deaf.
Time that's passed makes you gui...
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Categories:
flippantly, anger, conflict, depression, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Frantically Fruitful Freshly Free
...Fruitful faeries flying freshly frightenly faraway
Flashing flea-bitten furry fireflies fantasy fey,
Faux flash-dancing flowery figs flowing flippantly free,
Ferocious fierce foursome fruit-flies ...
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Categories:
flippantly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Leads One To Wonder and Wander
...as the sky lids peel back, my lovely twitters in back-
yard, a lovely swoon of spoken word. hoping the
circles of your eyes will be bluer than the Caribbean sea.
will you? Will you plea...
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Categories:
flippantly, longing,
Form: Free verse
Word Play Enters My Brain
...They entered my mind at four a.m.
An hour past their usual witching hour.
Adjectives arrived first.
Dashing, sparkly, dimpled, dynamic, melodious, mercurial.
By five I have created six poems.
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Categories:
flippantly, poems, word play, words,
Form: Free verse
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