With a Gentle Hand - Mystic
...Oh ye mighty hurricane, storm, or gale,
I cannot say, that I can e'er endorse
the means by which you make your will prevail,
depending as you do upon your force.
Indeed, you just destroy the you...
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Categories:
heavy handed, child, growing up, mentor,
Form: Ottava rima
Snapdragons
...Snapdragons (edit)
One is a serpent on the wing, the other a butterfly.
Each belongs to species created from
tissue paper, water, and light.
When half-awake I can hear the droning
of the...
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Categories:
heavy handed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Manual Clunk
...My typewriter
was not a good typewriter,
its keys were weighty,
you had to use brain muscle to work it,
nobody wanted it.
My son unpacked a home computer.
I stood by and watched
as all the e...
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Categories:
heavy handed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
abc fun
...Bitter bitty Betty bullied brute Billy
Choosing caustic comments, some so silly
Disgusted, divorced Danny deemed her a dilly.
Eventually evading Ernest, Eddie, Elyse and Elly
Forever forcing Fred...
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Categories:
heavy handed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
what is clear riot
...What is clear (riot)
I saw the working-class riot on TV
it was there when workers attacked the police
who are working class themselves, or was
angrily demonstrated against the influx of Mosle...
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Categories:
heavy handed, absence, anti bullying, books,
Form: Free verse
The Beastly System
...Life shattered by the state
merciless and heavy handed...
It may seem as if a fate
threw you here to be stranded.
All alone with your sorrow,
with the grief stamped on your soul
for today and...
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Categories:
heavy handed, abuse, care, heartbroken, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Seijaku
...Seijaku – 8-1-24
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Seijaku
Serenity abides with tranquility
Abiding in beauty
And deep respirations of satisfaction
Ready
Alert
Overlooking t...
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Categories:
heavy handed, life, peace, time,
Form: Free verse
The Wind
...Come join me on my erratic journeys over earth and sea.
I'll take you to nowhere special or, perhaps, a place you want to be.
I'm neither friend nor foe, so you need to know it's not personal at ...
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Categories:
heavy handed, nature,
Form: Personification
I Hope I Die When I'm Dancing
...Inconvenient adversaries
Found you like a hidden message in a video diary
Convoluted execution
You’re a relapse waiting to happen
Learning to be proud of my reflection
More smiles than ...
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Categories:
heavy handed, anxiety, imagery, introspection, pride,
Form: Free verse
Brother Whosoever
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To a dog, an empty hand's cause
even a well-intentioned one
flinches an involuntary jaw..
your neighbor's just the same.
Have you grown leery the open palm...
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Categories:
heavy handed, brother, people, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Abcedarian To Start My Engines
...astronomical anatomical atoms
buying brilliant blubbery bimbo blobs
collecting claustrophobic colorized clandescently clams
depicting deplorable dependable depraved dendrites
enticing and enlisti...
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Categories:
heavy handed, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
The Champ
...The arena fully packed,
All the ring girls looking sweet.
The fighters in their corners,
And the crowd was on their feet.
The ref looked like a Zebra,
Standing in the center ring.
He called t...
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Categories:
heavy handed, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
...Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then in...
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Categories:
heavy handed, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections and Promises
...Silence swells the whispers
Snow, breathless… caressing the earth
Gentling the scene in echoes
Serenity dancing in flurries, a blizzard
Whirling and twirling, delicious
Praises, psalms, prayers...
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Categories:
heavy handed, appreciation, christian, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Self Doubt
...Wouldn't you love to know,
The love I failed to show;
Because I failed to see,
All the love in me.
Doubt that was branded,
By those heavy handed;
Who only commanded,
In the first degree.
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Categories:
heavy handed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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