Initial days of Covid 19
...Death is the last enemy that God fought on the cross
His creation for mankind was immortal
Oh, one deception hampered God’s created world
Death is inevitable, but certain for all born human beings...
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Categories:
hampered, age, animal, bible, bird,
Form: Free verse
who lived in this place
...the whispers were barely perceptible
there was scuffling and shuffling
were ghosts up here then?
I took a peek expecting to see people
there was a steampunk like robot facing the door
his eyes...
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Categories:
hampered, poets,
Form: Free verse
Effort and Time
...Like Moses in the desert, I have wandered.
My destination nowhere in my sight.
I’m searching for the joy I have been promised
But hampered by the seeming lack of light.
Like Icarus of old, I am a...
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Categories:
hampered, growth, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Bull’s Horn
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Water kept gushing out of the roots exposing the living truth
the rivers have burst their banks and the animals are running
lose all over the land.
I kept telling myself that this time of the...
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Categories:
hampered, america, beach, deep, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Truth is Peace or it would be
...Truth is Peace - or it would be..
Someone once told me
that truth was only
'in the eye of the beholder'
Truth is - as truth is agreed upon
society calls this then
its truths - of course,...
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Categories:
hampered, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dare Not Raise My Sight And Ask How And Why
...Dare Not Raise My Sight And Ask How And Why
It is my time one other lesson to learn
And see through pain truths that me burn
In life nothing for granted is to gain
To wage wars against kismet...
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Categories:
hampered, allah, appreciation, blessing, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
You're on my mind
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Written: June 5th, 2024, For Jay Narain Contest
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Your smile awestruck me every morning,
Truly ambrosian and quiddity display style....
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Categories:
hampered, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Gentle Eye Mindful
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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core conve...
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Categories:
hampered, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Emptiness - Soul Hunt
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Written: April 27, 2024
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Seraphic, sibilant wisdom,
a grace-gorged vista,
nestled amidst
pristine propinquity
verdant gr...
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Categories:
hampered, analogy, life, soulmate, voice,
Form: Free verse
Freedom
...Freedom, freedom, where are you?
Let my action be of choice and have the absence of necessity to liberate my mind from slavery.
Produce the quality of good state in me.
Freedom, freedom, wh...
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Categories:
hampered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
It Started With A Blank Canvas
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Empty sheet a blank canvas
and a wall hanging a screen arras
listen to me—share your journey
why didn't you earn to draft a guernsey?
Igniting the flame
as ...
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Categories:
hampered, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Free verse
Old Dusties
...Put 'em down and o'er to the side
In them, your feet can no longer reside
Old, hampered, and worn out are these dusties
You wash 'em constantly but they're still stale and musty
Old dusties j...
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Categories:
hampered, blessing, change, encouraging, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Wisdom and Compassion
...heart is its own enemy when pursuing truth,
it is hampered by compassion and wily doubt,
adapts the events to suit its own narrative,
in its journey from birth to its final last beat,
cannot tell...
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Categories:
hampered, analogy, bible, creation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Dreamless
...The Dreamless
Now that he had freed himself of the past looking forward
to think thoughts not hampered by dreams of childhood and
the embarrassment of teenage years and sexual clumsiness
falli...
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Categories:
hampered, best friend, corruption, family,
Form: Blank verse
True Trans To Paradigm
...What do I project? Some of what I have
Absorbed. Also, that which I have
Reflected upon and have parts of rejected!
I am aware there is a so-called church of
The Devil – I am cognizant of the dri...
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Categories:
hampered, appreciation, identity, life, truth,
Form: Narrative
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