Our effervescence
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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"
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Categories:
forges, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
PIROUETTES
...PIROUETTES
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autumn, poised, dances,
a ballerina en pointe,
forges leaves to gold,
listens for rustling music,
performs graceful pirouettes~
cherishing her earth...
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Categories:
forges, 12th grade, autumn, dance,
Form: Other
How the Heart Forges
...I wake—
each dawn
a slender promise
shoulders gilded,
by hesitant sun.
The world, wide as longing
real as the air I breathe—
crests of mountains waiting
horizons keeping their couns...
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Categories:
forges, guitar, heart, journey, longing,
Form: Pastoral
GITI
...## I.
Your absent gaze still scorches me,
a mark from where your touch has been.
The miles collapse like glass in rain,
separation forges its cold chain—
yet still your flame draws me wi...
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Categories:
forges, cute love,
Form: Lyric
No More Mister Gneiss Guy
...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories:
forges, relationship,
Form: Verse
A Tale From The Loom - I to V
...I let your eyes to visualise a garden on a loom;
Bluebells and marigolds in sway and lavender in bloom;
And there to play in a luscious green two kittens wrestling;
Up high in chirping swallow's p...
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Categories:
forges, adventure, fantasy, romance,
Form: Rhyme
TO THE ONE WHO IS
...You have neither season nor outline,
Yet you dwell in every beat of my heart, crushed
By disappointment and solitude,
As though the day leaned over my hours of penance
To gather the source of my ...
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Categories:
forges, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Educational Slavery
...They called it knowledge—
but it came in cages,
neatly bound in books
with no windows to the sky.
We were fed with answers,
but starved of questions,
trained to remember
but never to awaken.
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Categories:
forges, education,
Form: Free verse
Of Lines And Lives
...Each path we walk, it forges something,
a step within a stair.
A line part of a rhythmic pattern
and we’re unaware.
We’re so wrapped up in what’s before us,
like it’s all there is.
As back an...
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Categories:
forges, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
One Poet Writes
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One Poet Writes
Within a quiescent memory enchanted in light
could a loving epiphany lie at your side
With sympathy and intrusion a love he portrays
that in a tranquil mome...
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Categories:
forges, beauty, happiness, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Noxious Guttural Humps
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Written: January 10, 2025
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The stillness separates us —
quivering quietly akin to the cusp of daybreak
when whispers wane —
it ...
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Categories:
forges, analogy, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
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I'm a human
being, and thus emotional;
I can be selfish or giving and kind.
I am optimistic
and realistic: traits imbued in our species.
I am a man of c...
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Categories:
forges, character, how i feel,
Form: Verse
Betrayal
...Betrayal crept in on silent feet,
A shadow cloaked in kinship’s deceit.
A dream once bright, now smeared in ash,
A brother-in-law turned thief of cash.
But it wasn't just a business he chose to...
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Categories:
forges, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Bomb I
...Perplexity of man has given birth
to all the suns that fill the universe.
A world at war shall advocate its worth
as Armageddon’s architects converse.
Their brilliancy sets forth upon a path
to ...
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Categories:
forges, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
She is a River
...“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a fa...
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Categories:
forges, allegory, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Verse
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