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...an instinctive voice of formative lyricism with warmth &colour extensive reflective phrasing exemplified with wistful nostalgia blissful e......

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Categories: formative, senses, word play,
Form: Verse
I possess an unusual knack for making women bristle
...I possess an unusual knack for making women bristle hence immediately this birdman wishes to escape into his eyrie or seriously considers joining a nunnery mainly for the less common slang defi......

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Categories: formative, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse



Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy Which lame excuse I exclaimed, when my dear old mom asked rather told me in her scolding voice to tidy up my bedroom, cuz this......

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Categories: formative, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
When The Lights Go Down
...In their formative moments artists live alone Sharing themselves only when the pain has dulled In corners of dark musings their spirit’s hide Calling out whenever the lights go down ......

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Categories: formative, art,
Form: Free verse
The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
...The Eternal Question, How can I answer you? The Eternal Question I could never figure what was true Why would God make a child spend her formative years With a mother who brought nothi......

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Categories: formative, atheist, beautiful, christian, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member children are parental pawns
...Parental perimeters Rules upon rules Encage their helpless children Who have no other life guides Until the formative years are over Children are parental pawns Humans without power Creature......

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Categories: formative, child, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hollow Place
...(“A Moment of Grace aka The Empty Mirror”, 2024, original encaustic) A Hollow Place Sometimes it seems that who I am Is nothing more than the dripping sediments At the edges of a hollo......

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Categories: formative, introspection, perspective, psychological, self,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Three sides to every story
...both mother and father nurture their child in his formative years but though all three live in one home starkly different are their fears the breeze, the tree and Mother Earth take a selfie t......

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Categories: formative, introspection, muse, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race... Planet earth (the Mother of all) breathed a collective and palpable sigh of relief, and I too deeply exhaled, ......

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Categories: formative, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Children Play
... When children play, Imagination, their fast friend, takes them on grand adventures. Adults observe their little ones, cherishing those formative times when children play. Kids become......

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Categories: formative, children, growth, imagination,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wisdom
... Wisdom is trusting the Lord, Must be with all of the heart. Wisdom comes from the Lord, Must ask Him if I am to have. Wisdom births humility, It is worth more than pure gold. Wisdom brings ......

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Categories: formative, christian, faith, god, trust,
Form: Free verse
The final frontier post consciousness
...The final frontier – post consciousness as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent, lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent nonestablishmentarian. The following disquisition initially des......

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Categories: formative, absence, adventure, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Attitude with latitude
...Attitude with latitude originally written January 19th, 2019 and tension defines the dynamic Valiant prince sip pulled effort rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed courtesy eldest daughter uncontested......

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Categories: formative, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End of Innocence
...(Christmas mantle, 2023) The End of Innocence I’m about to begin reading Don Quixote which will be a first for me, but I know its gist, and how it’s both the first modern and grea......

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Categories: formative, christmas, innocence, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Relativity
...Time clearly moves faster as we age (as we slow down and the years accumulate), for the simple reason that each unit becomes smaller relative to our life. At one year’s old that year makes up 1......

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Categories: formative, age, life, time,
Form: Narrative

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