Change
...Seasons change
New life blossoms
New Beggings
Sure to come
However Stains of the past carry on
The grip of racism
Yet to let go
Historical tragedies
Come and gone
But one remains time...
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Categories:
grow over, change, discrimination, prejudice, pride,
Form: Free verse
Under the enigmatic veil of twilight, where whispering winds unveil ancient secrets
...Under the enigmatic veil of twilight, where whispering winds unveil ancient secrets,
I traverse the caverns of my mind, a traveler in the land of shadows and echoes.
The gaze of the future, cold an...
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Categories:
grow over, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I Am Grass
...
The horror of Covid dead bodies pile up in the grass,
they died alone and now my growing is disturbed;
bury them deep, so I, the grass can grow over them.
When I am done they will be out o...
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Categories:
grow over, allusion, death,
Form: Personification
Dream Out of the Written
...Sometimes, you know how it feels to be alive.
To be breathing deep, breathing in air into the lungs of yours.
Sometimes, you know how it feels to be dead.
Heart shattered into pieces, unsure to be...
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Categories:
grow over, 10th grade, hello, language,
Form: Free verse
Moss
...Let the moss grow over my grave
When you leave flowers, leave them in the ground
And let my body rot...
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Categories:
grow over, death, goodbye, grave, nature,
Form: Free verse
Gun Shy
...If guns don’t kill people
Why are so many people dead
Another moms child
shot in the head
Blackboards white chalk
splattered in Red
A teacher killed
For something she said
Victim after vict...
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Categories:
grow over, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Hunger
...I hate myself.
I hate myself to the extent where I avoid looking in mirrors,
In fear of the ugly monster that's hiding behind it.
The deformed smile that dares to even grow over its face,
Eve...
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Categories:
grow over, abuse, anger, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Something I'M Missing
...My soul achs, my heart hurts, and my eyes begin filling with tears, as I have watched the space between us grow over the last two years. Don't you here my spirite as it screams out for you, for your...
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Categories:
grow over, absence, depression, desire, missing
Form: Free verse
In the Fallow Ground
...In The Fallow Ground
David J Walker
Can the seeds planted in
Old soil
Really grow
Is the ground long used
Still fertile or is
The water a waste of time
It seems the passing seasons
C...
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Categories:
grow over, age,
Form: Rhyme
Psalm-Raa1
...Oh Lord please tell me what Isaiah meant
That “the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus?”
I look out at the full moon in the morn...
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Categories:
grow over, religious,
Form: Free verse
- the Garden of Love -
...Plant a seed of hope, courage,
strength, patience and love
Dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts
Cover well with soil of fertility
My garden philosophy is
to mak...
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Categories:
grow over, beauty, dream, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Consistent and Continuing Choice and the Chance
...No, I do not agree that your pain has to last forever. Here's exactly why, friend.
"All scars heal just as much as we allow them to become a scab." "As they eventually all grow over making us str...
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Categories:
grow over, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Nationwide Adverts
...Nationwide adverts are written so fine,
talking the talk of a walk that's sublime,
no mention of accounts that'll grow over time,
your attention's attained through these nursery rhymes.
In a na...
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Categories:
grow over, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Sequoia
...(Poem included in the Poems of Yosemite chapbook.)
Ineffable –
Still, I write these lines
trite.
A scaffold of words
which whence removed
casts only a silence
of...
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Categories:
grow over, nature, time, tree,
Form: Free verse
Kingdom
...My Kingdom
For a verse
Worthy of note
A poignant stanza
Recited before a willing audience
My Kingdom
For the words
Etched on an unmarked grave
Moss won't grow over
Because it's visited ...
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Categories:
grow over, fate,
Form: Free verse
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