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Premium Memberdoorway to uncertainty

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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

Premium MemberInstructions 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

Premium Memberthe door

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                              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

Premium MemberIN 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



Premium MemberMisty 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

Premium Memberhappy 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

Premium MemberSometimes 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

Premium MemberOde 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

Premium MemberHeading Down under

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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

Premium Memberthe 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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