The Watermark
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The mark of water is an empty void.
It washes clean.
It slips through fingers,
It has no cup, leaves no trace
For it is the primordial spark,
the fountainhead of life,
the matter and medium
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Categories:
hardens, angst, anxiety, water,
Form: Free verse
love, underbaked
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I baked a whole tray—
not for me.
I’ve never liked brownies,
too sweet on tongue,
too soft for teeth…
But you once said
you'd like to try mine.
They cracked as they left the oven.
I bit,...
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Categories:
hardens, boy, break up, for
Form: Free verse
Decision
...Author Dana Redricks
April 25, 2025
How do I decide, when the path splits in two, when the steps I might take could erase what I knew? This image of me, built through struggles and strife, now...
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Categories:
hardens, conflict, confusion, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
fruit
...fruit
we sway in the wind
but i grasp the air
in hopes it can sweep me from this branch
this branch-
preserving the purity of my skin-
is forced to let me fall
i rip from the loosening gri...
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Categories:
hardens, 12th grade, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
At the beginning, your thoughts are like fresh clay
...At the beginning, your thoughts are like fresh clay,
malleable and soft to the touch, shaped by the hands of your early desires,
like a canvas painted with dreams dancing under the morning light.
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Categories:
hardens, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Subject of Rosebuds
...Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon,
dreams to capture the viewer's point of view,
as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune,
magnificent achievers rise in rows queue,...
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Categories:
hardens, beautiful, flower, growth, rose,
Form: Ottava rima
Sunset West of Eden
...Candles wax time pulls it to Earth,
drops cool stilled hardens in seconds,
a fire holder girth, warps obverse,
candles wax time pulls it to Earth,
vapors prompt darkening observes,
f...
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Categories:
hardens, change, dark, imagery, light,
Form: Triolet
The bell
...I'll take a trip with my imagination
I'll surf on the waves of reality
I'll ask my conscience for clarification
Then flirt and wink at my frailty
A spectrum of all that can be
Is cluttered ...
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Categories:
hardens, freedom, satire, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In the Year of the Dragon
...In the Year of the Dragon
In a world that has gone so wrong
Where gaslighting is the only light most see
There must be a way
To rise to the surface
Break free
And get a breath of real ...
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Categories:
hardens, death, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Into the Abyss
...Beware the never ending night
That darkens and hardens the heart
Tunnel sight that's devoid of light
And pulls humanity apart
Fragile is the corrupted mind
Once beguiled by the serpe...
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Categories:
hardens, life,
Form: Rhyme
Unfinished
...Sunlight spills
onto the hardwood,
seeping through a crack
of the hallway’s last door.
Steps echoing heartbeats,
click, click; click, click,
a building crescendo
like coming thunder.
A he...
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Categories:
hardens, color, farewell, grief, lost,
Form: Free verse
Sunflower
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Taking a glimpse of the blazing sun,
first proper look, before life begins.
In the moist soil was sown yesterday,
following its strength, throughout its way.
Going in its direction from e...
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Categories:
hardens, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Act of Defiance
...The pain you wish to inflict,
Is your quandary as I resist.
Grovel, you demand with hate.
But my resolve hardens and will not abate.
You capture my past for all to see.
But you don't re...
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Categories:
hardens, anti bullying, bullying, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Love Like This
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Love like this… such beautiful bliss,
Lover of my soul – it is He who makes me whole.
Love so amazing… my heart is always praising.
Lover of my heart – His love set me apart.
Love so forgiving…...
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Categories:
hardens, blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS GRACIOUS TO US
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April 7 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 12-15
Key Verse – 2Samuel 12:22 …Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
PRAISE...
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Categories:
hardens, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
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