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Computer Love
...“It was the art of our words made it too real, too raw to hold No skin, no touch, just me and you, connecting through the cold” You the rap, me the poetry, flipping lines, bending reality Mi......
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Brenda Chiri
Categories:
hold your own,
boyfriend, computer, girlfriend, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The strength we embody
...They told us our skin meant exile That our joy would be put on trial Because it brings rain But how can they hate the rain when it nourishes the ground we walk on The same ground that grows the f......
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Layla Riley-Hill
Categories:
hold your own,
discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Mer Couple
...I'll adore you while we are floating afar from the shore. I'll hold my own harbour gate open for that love of yours. I'll shower you with all approaches of affection once we soar.......
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Marissa Faries
Categories:
hold your own,
boyfriend, extended metaphor, metaphor,
Form:
Sijo
A Shrunken Head and Other Mysteries
...In the book nook I found it— a face no bigger than my palm, leathered and silent, its eyes forever pressed shut against whatever it had seen. Grandma said a missionary friend brought it back fr......
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Roxanne Andorfer
Categories:
hold your own,
childhood, grandmother, image, memory,
Form:
Free verse
cool, cruel curse
... moon … beams that burn - that turn my surgings to slag my teeth to serrations, hungering … can those silly sentients not see the verity in my veneration, you? do they truly think it’s only......
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Gregory Richard Barden
Categories:
hold your own,
analogy, fantasy, horror,
Form:
Free verse
The Now Continum
...The Now Continuum In the quiet pulse of the present's breath, Lies the secret, the power that outlasts death. Not in the past, where shadows cling tight, Nor in the future, a distant flight. ......
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Kamogelo Maubane
Categories:
hold your own,
addiction, appreciation, childhood, destiny,
Form:
Personification
Total War
...Tread not on me, brother! To live is to expand. Deterrence! Slay the Other! Cold core countermand! Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone. Midnight raid and how! Help the boy to hold his own! Sacr......
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Chris Jensen
Categories:
hold your own,
strength,
Form:
Rhyme
No Vacancy
...i am a house with the doors left open for too long. too many footsteps have walked in dragging their storms with them. i do not know how to tell them i have no space left to shelter their rain.......
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Zobarya Fakhar
Categories:
hold your own,
anxiety, depression, giving, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
Silliness Revisited
... An army of mites reside in our lashes With mouths and tiny claws Along the road to human evolution This was surely a major flaw Astronauts strangely can't burp in space What useles......
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Jack Ellison
Categories:
hold your own,
fun,
Form:
Free verse
Cosmically Aligned Forever
...Entered and did not place in ‘ANOTHER 2025 POSTED POEM’ contest. Judged 1/8/2025. Marriage could not bind us but the stars would hold their own aligning us together as soulmates forev......
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Robert James Liguori
Categories:
hold your own,
appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Gothenburg Penitentiary
...Gothenburg Penitentiary, the hardest of the hardest/ The concrete jungle, where everyone is heartless/ Gothenburg Penitentiary, the show now mercy/ So, you gotta learn to swim in murky waters/ Go......
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Michael Fulkerson
Categories:
hold your own,
anxiety, corruption, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Shell: Jane Grey
...Shell (Jane Grey) The Knights are all lining up to have their taste of me. Because I'm quiet and demure of the weak and tired and pure they lock us up forevermore. Their whispers and thei......
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Sylvia Lupien
Categories:
hold your own,
abuse, angst, anxiety, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
The Alchemy of Truth a song
...[short instrumental intro] [thick bassline] [energetic beat] [verse 1] The alchemy of truth, may be from a particular perspective, or colored by youth, and sprinkled with objective. For you......
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Susan Manley
Categories:
hold your own,
philosophy, truth,
Form:
Lyric
Still Holding My Own
...My life is a shambles unknown The chaos is mine all alone My dishevelled appearance Belies the coherence Of the ability to still hold my own......
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Leigh Haynes
Categories:
hold your own,
fun, life,
Form:
Limerick
Still Holding My Own
...There are guys who need assistance To assume the standing “piss-stance” Others hold their own Standing all alone They just can’t hit it from a distance ......
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John Lawless
Categories:
hold your own,
age, humor, men,
Form:
Limerick
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