Dog Chases Tail
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Written August 13, 2025, for a contest by Edward Ibeh
Quote: The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup. Listen to the ...
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Categories:
heaviest, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Malevolent Forms of Warnings
...Malevolent Forms of Warning
Contamination of the water
Insubordination of a teenage daughter
Co-ordination of more lambs to the slaughter
Provocation of the new world order
Authentication ...
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Categories:
heaviest, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Crow in the front garden
...Smiles a plenty
Under the veil of malice intent
Healthy love and support
Just a disguise for abusive behaviour
All the moments we see as beautiful
Just a front for growing dissent in the home
D...
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Categories:
heaviest, abuse, addiction, relationship, violence,
Form: Free verse
Rooms are Always Empty
...Your shoes are still by the door.
I stepped around them this morning
like stepping around a memory
that doesn’t want to go.
The hallway light
flickers now.
It didn’t used to.
I thought may...
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Categories:
heaviest, grief,
Form: Free verse
It was heavy
...Wearing your ashes was the
Heaviest thing I've ever carried...
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Categories:
heaviest, death,
Form: Free verse
The Art of War
...Hit them where it hurts
President Trump said “Ukraine has no cards to play to end war with Russia”. Yet deep inside Russia, Ukraine masterfully destroys over 40 warplanes that could carry nuclear ...
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Categories:
heaviest, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Folk Of Habitat Bay
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There is a lovely town l know of called Habitat Bay
Where the residents are of the animal kind
Living together in harmony
A community supportive and aligned
Duck is the towns only doctor
A b...
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Categories:
heaviest, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Her Smile
...Her smile, the softly ringing bells of her laughter, the newly discovered talismans against encroaching death.
The delicate light, faint but growing, that first lit and warmed her own glowing frec...
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Categories:
heaviest, beauty, death, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Dot Dot Dot
...What do you do
when your head feels like
a million pounds,
your chest is buried
underground,
where worms and slugs
and filth abound,
and rocks compound overhead,
compounding a heaviness
whic...
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Categories:
heaviest, angst, anxiety, depression, fear,
Form: Lyric
Alone in the Crowd
...No longer can I say that my heart thrives,
But my love for life still quietly survives,
A flame that burns with fervent might,
Longing for a hand to hold in the night.
I search the eyes of pass...
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Categories:
heaviest, feelings, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Rhyme
MARTY KING AND SHENIKA SIMS: warm water for weary feet
...MARTY KING
when i needed a friend
all skies were black
my head could only bend down
i could never look up
then came you as sunshine
i realized that you were God's Sign
light came into the da...
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Categories:
heaviest, beautiful, blessing, friend, love,
Form: Free verse
The Trybullyst
...Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow wells to lower ...
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Categories:
heaviest, adventure, betrayal, film, money,
Form: Ballad
Manifest
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A lover of my love,
From the tiniest to the grandest part of myself,
An essence of you will always live in me.
Where life goes and where death ends,
Your voice carries the weight of the known...
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Categories:
heaviest, angel, beautiful, dark, heart,
Form: Free verse
Heavy
...They say, "You carry too much."
But they don't see the weight of the world pressed into my bones.
Anxiety clenches its fists in my stomach,
whispers like static in my ears,
telling me every wro...
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Categories:
heaviest, 11th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
I Continue To Walk
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With my heart hovering
On the heaviest roads
East, West, South and North
I falter and fall
But continue to walk
As a bird who carries his nest
In his heart along
I continue to walk
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Categories:
heaviest, courage, devotion, journey,
Form: Free verse
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