Love Leaves One Breathless
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“Love can change a person’s life, leave him breathless, either building him or breaking him”~ By Poet
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Cupid the great archer,
Shoots his ...
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Categories:
highjacked, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Burden of Conscience
...Consider our conscience highjacked by
The author that dwells in the deep of
Our cranium, how we think creates
The burden of our actions.
We conversed back and forth
Walking to and fro
But when...
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Categories:
highjacked, anxiety, god, me, mental
Form: Free verse
The Napkin
...God took a vacation
when time had run out
Rethinking his opus
replanning devout
His Angels in limbo
the devil on leave
Heaven a sublet
sin now reprieved
Faith worn and tattered
the bibl...
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Categories:
highjacked, god,
Form: Rhyme
Wasted Man In a Wasted Land
...Wasted man in a wasted land
He got no hope of survival
Cos his country is highjacked
By corrupt leaders
Who never care about the benefits
Of their people
But their own selfish interest
He got...
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Categories:
highjacked, africa, confidence, courage, humanity,
Form: Epic
It's On
...Heroes are masked, monosyllabic but super.
The rat gangs obviously
are bad news and apparently
loose and reprehensible,
most are irredeemably dead-eyed.
It's on!
Action demands reaction,
b...
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Categories:
highjacked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Launch
...On a runway suited to launch anyone to anywhere in the world;
On a jet plane engineered and well equipped to take me there;
Without a doubt, I was determined to be a world traveler.
I dreamed, p...
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Categories:
highjacked, confidence, courage, dream,
Form: Verse
Christmas What Value
...The meaning of Christmas
In our multi-religious world and lack of Christian faith
I no longer call Christmas by its name but prefer
to call the festive season “The festivities.”
The meaning of “C...
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Categories:
highjacked, anti bullying, birth, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Propaganda
...Propaganda
It is a cold day, no more sitting on the terrace
watching ships sailing by and dreaming of the old days.
With little to do, I watched on Netflix about the making of the Nazi party.
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Categories:
highjacked, anger, cinderella, family,
Form: Blank verse
Beware the Change
...BEWARE OF THE CHANGE YOU SEEK
May it be well defined , refined, and touched by the Divine Be certain you are not deceiv...
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Categories:
highjacked, america, change, christian, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Money Is Evil
...Money is evil, makes us crave things we lack
We start out sane, then turn into a raving maniac
Greed is foremost
Doing our utmost
To seem normal but our morals have been highjacked<>
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Categories:
highjacked, money,
Form: Limerick
The First Responders
...The First Responders
By Franklin Price
6/12/2019
The Day was nine-eleven, the year two thousand one
Twin towers in Manhattan, down before the setting sun
Each was penetrated, by a co...
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Categories:
highjacked, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
My Jouncing Gait During Boyhood
...(an All Poetry feat to walk in
the poetic feet of Robert Frost)
Bucolic New England, circa
Early twentieth century New England
awash with dynamic harmonic leisureliness,
when much of North Am...
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Categories:
highjacked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
'tis the Gift To Be Simple
...The Valley Of Love And Delight':
An anniversary feting mine birth (date),
a plan we almost didst ditch
nonetheless the general game plan
soared like an Eagle,
and went off swimmingly (into a ...
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Categories:
highjacked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bushwhacked By Love
...Being
a
Little
Abstract
Whacked
and
Cracked.
I
Snatched
Eye
Contact
with
Distracted
Impact.
Enacting
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Categories:
highjacked, art, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Terror In Plain Sight
...Trade center image with smoke billowing on live TV coverage, watching in terror unable to
move.
Who would do such a horrible act and Why??
With my heart in my throat and tears in my eyes, wishing...
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Categories:
highjacked, history
Form: Free verse
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