Success
...Your success won’t impress The Creator
Who heeds every deed now and later....
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Categories:
heeds, success, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Emotional Shrapnel
...Pile Up
self-perceived failure, blame
guilt, disappointment, shame
Pressure
unexpressed, unfulfilled needs
expectations nobody heeds
Perilous Pitch
consider this - you are much bigger
som...
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Categories:
heeds, abuse, anger, hurt, pain,
Form: Rhyme
burgundy bliss
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i g n o r a n c e~
is a rhyme without soul
an art of f a d i n g into oblivion...
like crestfallen tulips
twirling through tethered rays
in the midst of seething sighs...
and I am more than ...
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Categories:
heeds, deep,
Form: Free verse
Touch of Grace
...
the mountains groaned, repulsed
by the distant grumble of thunder’s rough
voice rising on the edges of the dark
stirring the distant gaze of a still twilight
flooded with shadows, hasty...
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Categories:
heeds, appreciation, god, muse, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Accident
...I heard it on the radio –
An early morning crash,
The driver’s fault and then her life
Was over in a flash.
It happened near my walking path
So when I headed out,
I knew I’d pass right by to...
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Categories:
heeds, car, new york, today,
Form: Rhyme
Firestorm The 'Orange Glow'
...Scents of burnt embers flowing over my windowsills
Charred are the palm tree fronds that
once fanned the breeze
Seized are the pods, timbers
Torches sparking shrills
Behold the...
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Categories:
heeds, anxiety, confusion, fear, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Let all the woods your footprint bear
...Picking imprints from everywhere,
Let all the woods your footprint bear,
Take off, nag at no rutted tract,
What if some rickety ways stare.
Throw to winds every needless care,
Let no head wind...
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Categories:
heeds, encouraging, travel,
Form: Ghazal
FALL OF MAN
...Blind as man is
He sees not beyond his nose
Befriending the devil
Bringing temptation very close.
Blind as man can be
He heeds not Adam’s tale
Of how he yielded to false desire
Tradi...
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Categories:
heeds, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
NATURE BOWS TO GOD
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Natural
Nature heeds God’s command, fulfilling His demand. It complies with full might against delaying blight. Such is shown by rain fall, dropping down along wall, cascading from he...
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Categories:
heeds, appreciation, blessing, christian, creation,
Form: Alexandrine
Poems about Storms and Squalls
...These are poems about storms, poems about squalls, poems about tempests...
Dark-bosomed clouds
pregnant with heavy thunder ...
the water breaks
—Michael R. Burch
Squall
by Michael R...
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Categories:
heeds, anger, angst, conflict, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Bananas Wagged His Name
...1. ? OK, I'm good to go ...
2. Satirical, ironic, quick wit, = critics fave +/-
3. Dad's magical, handcrafts a buck into luck plus 2 birds in a bush, $0.01
land + $0.99 houses--1950s+->. ...
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Categories:
heeds, animal, change, culture, death,
Form: Bio
SOMETIMES, DON’T FEEL LIKE HOME
...Sometimes in my head I feel so weak,scared,angry and empty,
Cause as the sunrise I only see my image in a circle being stagnant,crying helplessly from within but my outer face keeps wearing onto my...
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Categories:
heeds, depression, solitude,
Form: Carpe Diem
Family Ties
...
Still as the softest morning dew,
Listless and lonely,
Breathing in notes, harmonizing
With the leaves as they dance,
Haphazardly, in rhythms – rhymes
Of light and serenity, faithful to the ...
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Categories:
heeds, blessing, christian, god, hope,
Form: Free verse
On the Edge
...Broad moon rapidly drops six feet out of view.
A shadow casts on stodgy, trickling of creek.
Sharply, a face breaks ground, above plot’s subdue.
The late dead stars fall on waters, dammed and weak...
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Categories:
heeds, grave, scary,
Form: Ottava rima
Requiem For A Motherless Child
...The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are...
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Categories:
heeds, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
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