Multiplicity of the Self
...“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
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Multiplicity of the Self
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Categories:
flouted, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
For the science averse'
...When health scares are touted.' Check saftey rules are not
Flouted, or all futures may well end up being worse.'
My advice is; try not to be (too science averse)!
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Categories:
flouted, education, health, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
A Hanging Fruit
...In a lea, he saw a ripe, sagging mango fruitlet
Fruitlet, he decided to approach, touch and pick
Pick a fruitlet whose man he flouted
Flouted owner but he knew he was larceny
Larceny of a fruit...
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Categories:
flouted, adventure, evil,
Form: ABC
Raging Fire Hollow Hearts
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Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq...
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Categories:
flouted, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Seven Minutes Until
...|SEVEN MINUTES UNTIL OUR DEMISE
{"Seven minutes left; the insistent buzz in my skull would never abrogate, it preserved on being continuously strenuous.
My whacks on the veneer of the tiles went...
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Categories:
flouted, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Deal
...We had a deal
And I cooperated with zeal;
Thinking it was real.
You gave me no dime,
Yet you stole my precious time;
This I read like a rhyme
Or even if you paid me,
That was little, very ...
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Categories:
flouted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Polly Astley
...Polly Astley loved to have visitors, for she loved piquant, plum people;
Like counting stars when we were young, in milky moonlight, peaceful.
Her days were spent teaching children, with ...
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Categories:
flouted, fantasy, friendship, home, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Confronted By Heart
...Your ropes are a fuzzy memory
It resonated deeply in my heart
with eyes as calm as the moon
Shepherd of the endless mix
White and glistening wilderness
Vast clouds kneel before your desuetud...
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Categories:
flouted, analogy, appreciation, heart, love,
Form: Free verse
A Disparaging Cry Goes Up
...A disparaging cry goes up throughout our land
Intense feelings are generated by vocal dissent
We are not hearing a patriotic “Strike Up the Band!”
The pot of dissent is stirred by a former ...
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Categories:
flouted, america, angst, anxiety, leadership,
Form: Pantoum
Red
...Red blood was shed as their land was taken
Red graves lie unmarked behind shuttered schools
Treaties flouted through Parliament's rules
With redskins confined to reservation
Red songs unsung and ...
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Categories:
flouted, racism,
Form: Other
Beware the Shepherd
...While jurisprudence illustrates through brief,
the bureaucrat stands verbal in reply.
To pillage righteous freedoms like a thief,
he fans malfeasance tethered to a lie.
Incitement is the weap...
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Categories:
flouted, anger, angst, hope, society,
Form: Rhyme
Cooperate
...It's doing my head in, really getting me down,
The rules keep changing when they need to,
We should follow the rules to stay safe,
Some dont want to they think it doesnt apply to them,
So stay aw...
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Categories:
flouted, change, conflict, fear, future,
Form: Free verse
Its Australia Day
...It’s Australia’s day
We all cheer and say
A barbecue with lamb and beer
Is the plan we adhere
But now some exclaim
It’s a day full of blame
For we invaded their country
Aborigines owned it ...
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Categories:
flouted, day, memory,
Form: Ballad
My New Year
...If there is life there
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and
the suns, all get to return
back if they passed
to their eventual
transportation. The morning
lights shunned and pass ...
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Categories:
flouted, africa,
Form: ABC
Nobody Came
...The mist ooozed
the echo to one way.
It was so dark and dank
my breath stank, impaled
by will–o'–the–wisp
mirage, flickering
candle-like, remote.
Ghosts-like swirls arose
through the mist, ...
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Categories:
flouted, loneliness, lost,
Form: Free verse
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