Ways of Providence
...Did I ever know that I would be born?
Did I decide my psyche and physique?
Why is a rose shielded by a sharp thorn?
Providence creates each creature unique.
I think of building a castle for me....
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Categories:
foils, fate, god, life,
Form: Sonnet
The Star
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Glittering unhindered in the sky
Is the star’s glow at places high,
Lighting seas’ abysmal turmoils:
Nature’s eye that darkness foils.
But this glow’s sometimes short-lived:
Evil gods by s...
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Categories:
foils, dream, success,
Form: Rhyme
My wonderful wife
...My Wonderful Wife
Here — the one who bears the fruit of my loins.
Here — the cheerleader of my flawed bravado.
Here — the bearer of the yoke of my incessant brokenness.
Here — the moon that shi...
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Categories:
foils, africa, anniversary, appreciation, care,
Form: Free verse
Gripped by Nature
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Written: January 2nd, 2025, for Contest, Sponsored by: Constance La France
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I caught an enormous fish
and held him by the boat
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Categories:
foils, animal, fishing,
Form: Quintain (English)
Nothing to Hide Collab
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"Whatcha gonna do with that 6-pack, man?"
You could share it can by can.
I’d be happy if you ran
one past me as we tan,
stylin’ in the latest Ray-Ban.
You asked a question, and my thoughts ...
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Categories:
foils, beach, drink, friendship, relationship,
Form: Other
Nothing to Hide
..."Whatcha gonna do with that 6-pack, man?"
You could share it can by can.
I’d be happy if you ran
one past me as we tan,
stylin’ in the latest Ray-Ban.
You asked a question, and my thought...
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Categories:
foils, beach, sun,
Form: Other
The Genial Green
...Sterling beauty, scintillating green,
The morning's bright.
The pulchritudinous scene,
Let us conserve this, why be mean?
The trees are a sight to see,
They give shade and beauty to you and m...
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Categories:
foils, beauty, environment, international, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Im a Chocolate Candy Holic
...Chocolate? Sure. I like it several ways.
With lots of sugars, layered, and with glaze.
With caramel and peanut butter every day.
Add some mint also, I’ll eat it that way.
Truffles wrapped in fa...
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Categories:
foils, food,
Form: Rhyme
Popcorns
...Seeds with butter or caramel
Beads of food, pops all in marvel
All pops and booms, scent that you smell
Popcorns of you, you chew and tell
Oil drops, olive or vegetable
Pops and hops, hot on t...
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Categories:
foils, food, fun,
Form: Kyrielle
Snow
...cotton hills rise up
to clasp the colorful sky ---
melt into failure
freezing soon again
flickers into silver foils ---
fluorescent earth
27 December 2022...
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Categories:
foils, snow,
Form: Haiku
Why Some Choose To End It All
...Could this be why one chooses to end it all?
We have all wondered about the whys,
Because life often throws one against a wall
A person can fall no matter how hard s/he tries.
We ha...
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Categories:
foils, suicide,
Form: Pantoum
The Sum
...We are the sum of all say I, that intertwines our souls,
Accepting life, as we do take, the toils, and spoils, and goals.
These toils taught, we all must learn, as futures to provide,
To all our y...
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Categories:
foils, 10th grade, appreciation, family,
Form: Rhyme
When the Pendulum Gravity Shall Fail
...Every thought
I had fought
Is like each single
I've ever mingle
As each cough
has been so tough
To cope
with when...
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Categories:
foils, 1st grade, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme
Spiritual Streaming
...Has life ever been cheaper,
When doubting God grows steeper?
Love without justice perverts.
Justice sans morals subverts.
Despite the evil scheming,
God's spiritual streaming.
Doubt ...
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Categories:
foils, bible, christian, conflict, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
The End Times
...*Image of Contrary To Popular Belief by Medium.
The End Times
A locomotive train chugs remote wails,
The tempest brews a calamitous stunt,
Falls of exiting steam, moist teary tail...
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Categories:
foils, evil, fantasy, good night,
Form: Rhyme
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