heartspeak
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tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
the palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
I'm sweeter still if dashed upon the shoals
or bleeding from the hem of day's remains
t...
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Categories:
grander, analogy, heart, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet
the ruby spires
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there, among those Ruby Spires
stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
red winds cut skin, heaven-kissed
much too cold for hellish fires ...
worlds and suns behind us, then
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Categories:
grander, adventure, analogy, appreciation, science
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Weight Of Creation
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I did not ask for the weight I bear,
Yet here I stand, beneath its stare.
A world of futures, unshaped, untamed,
Balanced upon the fire I’ve claimed.
With hands that tremble, yet never break,...
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Categories:
grander, creation, endurance, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
beyond limit
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these days I question more and more
my faiths and what their purposed for
while evil grows to breadths unseen
beyond, it seems, where it has been
oh grant me sense and...
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Categories:
grander, analogy, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Heads Up!
...Roaring African Diamond, Rolling Thunder, Beloved Warrior—
Cotton’s Violent Cr-owner craving Tougher, Blacker Pickers
praying Brother, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers couldn’t recover
Delight, Com...
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Categories:
grander, addiction, africa, america, black
Form: Kwansaba
Want What We Wish
...Will the tears ever dry?
When wrong wishes wreck what we want,
Still, each day we must try,
Featherfins flee from feral fish,
Known for never bein' shy.
Strength still same, sanity stays...
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Categories:
grander, blessing, business, destiny, prayer,
Form: Alliteration
The Poem I Tried to Write
...I sat with pen, with page snow-white,
to sculpt a verse, to birth some light—
but all my thoughts just slipped away
like shy young clouds who won’t stay.
No poet’s muse knocked at my doo...
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Categories:
grander, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Lonely Road
...I walk a solitary path, a reclusive soul/
Lonely whispers echo where shadows console/
Nobody speaks, nobody sees/
I'm lost in their world, like a silent breeze/
In public, I vanish, an invisible ...
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Categories:
grander, courage, deep, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Living and the Dead
...For you, who must remain in Asphodel,
We weep for you, who have forever fell.
Yet we, who lost the moment, gained all time.
In falling, do we hope that others climb.
And though we lost our litt...
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Categories:
grander, dark, death, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Nature's Tentacles
...Cats are Mother Nature's energy healers.
Humans are energy churners. Tornadoes. Waves. Breath.
We are movement itself. We can be soft or violent. We are warm or frigid, hard or impartial.
Elep...
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Categories:
grander, analogy, grief, health, pets,
Form: Free verse
Cartoon Landmine
...A monster of cookies and a man of spiders
Lie in a stilted plastic embrace
On the floor of my shower
Waiting for my sleepy naked foot
Like a soapy cartoon landmine
In the semi darkness
Where I ...
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Categories:
grander, childhood,
Form: Free verse
THESE THOSE SPOKEN WORDS-
...Mine boggled journey through the letters
Voices in my mind I hear I heard, reciting revealing words
Radiant verses, some words misspoken are curses
Humanity prime objectives numeral st...
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Categories:
grander, analogy, destiny, how i
Form: Rhyme
Cleaning Up The Mess
...In suit of orange, he strides the scene
With tweets like whirling winds, sharp and keen
Promises made to sweep the debris
A tumultuous path to a grander decree
© daniel miltz...
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Categories:
grander, political,
Form: Free verse
Forest For the Trees
...It is right there in front of your face.
Look around, it’s all over the place.
Don’t know why it is you cannot see
What is plainly apparent to me.
Could I get you to open your eyes?
Look again...
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Categories:
grander, relationship, tree,
Form: Rhyme
The Penetralia Ruby Queen Lyrics
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Professed, nonwarranted kinfolk attest upon the secret florist
Herald stewards, forbear! Striplings, go not to entice the fawn’s forest
Yonder snowy peaks, betwixt pearls, radiates the pinkest a...
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Categories:
grander, beautiful, creation, fantasy, flower,
Form: Lyric
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