Blaze
...I had the nicest rooster,
An Orpington named Blaze.
He was around for several years
Until a fox ended his days.
His feathers were burnt orange,
A handsome shade of buff.
A pair of deadly spu...
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Categories:
heaviness, animal, bird, death, loss,
Form: Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO TAKES US TO HIS REST
...August 1 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 18-21
Key Verse – Isaiah 18:4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear...
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Categories:
heaviness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO SATISFIES OUR LIVES
...July 19 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 19-21
Key Verse – Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be vi...
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Categories:
heaviness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Dream Shattered, and Heartbroken
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"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the capti...
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Categories:
heaviness, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Demonic Despair
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The whooshing of threadbare curtains cuts through deadening silence,
while shadows on the wall toy with a hermit's sanity.
The graze of unseen, jagged fingernails scrapes against sweaty flesh...
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Categories:
heaviness, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form: Free verse
FRACTURED LIGHT
...In the mirror's gaze, a stranger's face
Eyes that once shone bright, now dim with time
The weight of shadows, a heaviness that clings
A heart that beats with doubt, a soul that sings
A whispere...
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Categories:
heaviness, anxiety, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Epic
FAITH IN GOD WHO FILLS OUR THIRSTY SOULS
...June 25 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 63-68
Key Verse – Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a...
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Categories:
heaviness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
What The Fire Didn’t Take
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The power of grief can consume you—?not all at once,?
but like water swelling inside a sinking ship.
?Quiet at first,?
until you're drowning in the silence.
It doesn’t ask permission.
?It wr...
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Categories:
heaviness, dark, emotions, grief, journey,
Form: Free verse
Becoming Kin
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Before the first moonlight spilled down upon us like winged doves from the sky
we were fettered together like lovers were,
In passion not yet transmuted into devotion to one another.
Above us ro...
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Categories:
heaviness, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
The Road Back
...There is a silence before the fall—
not the absence of sound, but the heaviness of it,
thick as fog, as thick as the space between heartbeats,
when every thought crowds the same narrow room.
Th...
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Categories:
heaviness, suicide,
Form: Free verse
YOU TOO MUCH-
...You too much, you too much
You too much (you too much)
You too much, child you too much (you too much)
Rich in thought
Heavy, heaviness brought
Banish the thought
that's you're to...
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Categories:
heaviness, allusion, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Edge of Goodbye
...I saw him in the corridor —
my mind stopped for a moment,
all my emotions rushing back,
stunned, yet I kept walking.
Once I was away,
I crossed a wall —
and broke down,
tears flowing down my...
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Categories:
heaviness, courage,
Form: Free verse
Hollowed Breeze
...Into your being, Aeolus blew
an enthusiastic hunger,
Driving your curious and passionate nature
To swirl together in an eclectic dance,
Displaying a prismatic array of imaginative hues,
a zeal...
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Categories:
heaviness, beautiful, feelings, loss,
Form: Free verse
A Silent Voice
...In silence, words disappear,
Unspoken—louder than any sound.
A heart longs to be understood,
But the world is too vast, too harsh.
A voice is lost in the noise—
Not because it isn’t there,
Bu...
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Categories:
heaviness, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Fourteen Feels Like Falling
...I turned fourteen, the world turned cold,
The light I knew felt strange, controlled.
They said these years would shape my soul—
But all I feel is lost and old.
I used to laugh, just ‘cause I co...
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Categories:
heaviness, anxiety, deep, depression, for
Form: Free verse
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