The Sinking Ship of Negativity
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It's disappearing like buffalo across the vast plains...
familiarity has become distorted, both sour and rank.
There's an abandoning of the ship of negativity,
bringing grief far worse than nin...
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Categories:
flounders, community, conflict,
Form: Elegy
Balm of time heals, hurts just enough
...If balm of time heals, oft hurts just enough,
Heart heals because it exerts just enough.
Unfortunate for all destinations,
Journeys do end, linger thirsts just enough.
Many a love may die b...
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Categories:
flounders, journey, love, marriage, time,
Form: Ghazal
Poetry I've Written
...I see myself in lines of poetry I've written
flying and crawling, laughing and bawling,
winning and losing, breathing and dying ~
as a river current meandering where I choose to go
moo...
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Categories:
flounders, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Forewarning of Dawn
...A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice
Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in one o...
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Categories:
flounders, dark, scary, sea,
Form: Couplet
Politics Part 2
...Corporate wealth sought
by Labour czar conquistadors
scourge wealth
the have-nots will prevail
30,000 measly votes for a standing Labour MP
the enthusiasm for them is underwhelming
without P...
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Categories:
flounders, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga
...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
crafted when Wallace and Gromit
returned from their trip to the moon,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) –
as...
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Categories:
flounders, adventure, age, animal, blue,
Form: Free verse
Illness On The Dance Floor
...Illness On The Dance Floor
Illness staggers and lurches
Across the dance floor
Leaving health
To sit this one out
Illness with outstretched arms
Flounders falls and spits blood
Health with lo...
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Categories:
flounders, 12th grade, health,
Form: Free verse
Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas
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"Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas"
Engagement came at a cost
the written word read
and worn like a purple robe
to keep out the cold
stave the hunger off,
feed the ...
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Categories:
flounders, muse,
Form: Narrative
Revenge Is Beneath You
...Revenge is beneath you
By Michelle Morris
27/07/2020
Revenge is not a worthy pursuit -
It is a waste of time and energy,
And doesn't suit you...
We are light bearing souls -
Crafted f...
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Categories:
flounders, endurance, humanity, life, light,
Form: Free verse
'dirty Laundry'
...'Dirty Laundry!'
Tell me why hearts compose when all poems are born
in a world full of wastrels (where weakest get slain?)
There are bloodstains besmirching blank sheets ...
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Categories:
flounders, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Cybersurfing Netizen Flounders
...Cybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water
Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.
No...
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Categories:
flounders, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
The Darkest Lies
...Darkness peeks beneath the shadows
Melancholic doubt, dread
From silent sensation, built by depression
Falling down from up on high
Where there is grace, where there is chance
Darkness drive...
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Categories:
flounders, angst, anxiety, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Sthandwa
...Sthandwa
Sthandwa sthandwa
I scrawled her name a hundred hundred times
Carved it onto every Inch of my heart
Painted it across the canvas of my mind
Sthandwa
Sthandwa sthandwa
A constellat...
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Categories:
flounders, love,
Form: Free verse
Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga
...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!
Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the...
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Categories:
flounders, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Break-Up
...The light in my life has slowly sputtered out
What began as a flinty spark of infatuation,
Flounders in ever-growing feelings of doubt.
First I thought about nothing but the sensations...
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Categories:
flounders, feelings, girlfriend, loss, love
Form: Quatorzain
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