doorway to uncertainty
...
and in my meditation wanderings
I arrived at an antique door quite unique
it was a tall large carved wood door
with an ornate knob and large keyhole
it was really imposing
...
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Categories:
hesitated, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Instructions For Walking Away
...feet tracing ruts
softened by the weight of others
the path was worn
polished
not by insight
but by generations
unquestioning the same direction
a weed split the sidewalk
where my foo...
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Categories:
hesitated, freedom, identity, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
The boy called a LUNATIC by Blossom Monyei
...The Boy They Called a Lunatic
By Blossom Monyei
I was just a kid, about 12 years old,
when Joseph Nyumah Boakai’s wife asked my landlord to send his son, Francis, to work at her house.
At tha...
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Categories:
hesitated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
the door
...
while m e a n d e r i n g a forest
I came upon an
o
l
d wood...
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Categories:
hesitated, mystery,
Form: Free verse
IN A GILDED INSTANT
...IN A GILDED INSTANT
The monarch’s wings opened as a picture book, fluttering by. It glided, uncertain but undeterred, through a gentle haze of gold and shadow, the garden’s...
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Categories:
hesitated, 12th grade, butterfly,
Form: Ekphrasis
Misty Morning
...I left home one early Misty morning
I took for granted the shoes on my feet
I have worn old shoes ready to be tossed
But never have been forced to be shoeless
The pavement was cold and wet
And...
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Categories:
hesitated, care, christian,
Form: Verse
Pearl Waters
...Pearl Waters
No shoes
Two souls flying parallel
Just bare foot in the sand
Pearl waters fluent
Souls running free
Sky indigo glowing
Silver ripples amazed
Zenith mesmerized
Celestia...
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Categories:
hesitated, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
a bus ride
...A Bus Ride
I had bought a
newspaper in town and was taking the bus home
an hours ride
up to my village. I looked at the
headlines
noticed the paper had no date
was I reading yesterday’s
to...
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Categories:
hesitated, anxiety, art, beautiful, best
Form: ABC
happy to play our part
...within an astral realm
the one needing healing appeared
we looked at each other awhile
touch of love she feared
we stretched our hands forward
asking for her permission
she first hesitated...
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Categories:
hesitated, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross
...The Cross
Before I was even born,
In blood, you were torn.
The road you walked alone was hard to follow.
You showed me there is no other way but a narrow road.
At the beginning you were a c...
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Categories:
hesitated, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes I feel trapped in the inescapable web woven from all the moments we spent together
...Sometimes I feel trapped in the inescapable web woven from all the moments we spent together,
I wonder if there's a way to return to those times lost in the abyss of memory,
I think about whether, ...
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Categories:
hesitated, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Reuben
...When I met him, he was hungry and homeless.
Rumor had it that he once played basketball
for the infamous Harlem Globe Trotters.
Three traits that I observed in him would
have proven great for a...
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Categories:
hesitated, people,
Form: Ode
Our first day trip
...2024.4.20 Saturday one year ago.
It was our first trip ever.
We visited S back beach.
A warm beautiful sunny day.
This trip would not happen
If my USB was not damaged.
I lost three years worth...
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Categories:
hesitated, anniversary, appreciation, beach, for
Form: Free verse
Heading Down under
...
When a pastor asked a lady
if she was planning a trip
down under she hesitated:
Yes, I am, she said nervously.
It’s my first trip to Australia
if that’s what you mean
at least that’s w...
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Categories:
hesitated, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
the doorway of uncertainty
...
and in my meditation wanderings
I arrived at an antique door quite unique
it was a tall large carved wood door
with an ornate knob and large keyhole
it was really imposing
...
...
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Categories:
hesitated, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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