TEMPER
TEMPER
My love,
I am pained by my pain which leaves me in pains
Oh!.
Have you not drank your fill
Of my will's will?
The tug ever drains me
Temper!
Temper my love!
Are you listening?
My mind is a mine
Mined In fields
Of my faces
Oh!
By whom you ask?
Oh! Please you know better of my
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Categories:
hope..., allegory, analogy, feelings, truth,
Form: Free verse
A Letter to America
A letter to America
America we have been your friend
Forever now it seems
Through adversity and good times
Shared interwoven dreams
You had our back in darkest days
And likewise we’ve had yours
And though sometimes ill-advisedly
supported all your wars.
You are like an older cousin
To admire and revere
A land of truth and justice
But it’s all changing now we fear
We
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Categories:
hope..., america, best friend, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Come what may
From here to beyond eternity
I’ll roam this earth to find you
~ in storm or clement weather
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
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Categories:
hope..., hope, longing, lost love,
Form: Other
Fallen- Faithful- Forward
fate fractures
family fades
footsteps falter
forsaken
fragile
fearful
yet faith fuels
fortifies
frees
fallen, faithful, forward
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Categories:
hope..., faith, grief, hope, life,
Form: Alliteration
A Soggy Story
There once was a little boy,
Whose imagination would not rest --
Cursed or blessed?~ was difficult to say.
Some journeys were only fantastic-play:
Sliding down waves, shaking tentacles
With friendly octopi – but there were those, also
Instructive, like the flying fish, who could not fly --
Sort of on the surface, would just lie~ and cry. Try as
He often did;
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Categories:
hope..., character, courage, dream, growth,
Form: Free verse
After the Storm
The sky broke open, spilling light along empty streets,
and he went under its shelter, carrying the weight of every yesterday
as if each memory could still cleave to his shoulders.
Raindrops lingered on the pathway like strewn mirrors,
catching pieces of moments thought lost:
the eyes that believed, the hands that shaped him and the whispers of care that
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Categories:
hope..., grief, hope, inspirational, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Intelligent Thrist
I feel intelligent about myself,
Counting choices, weighing my worth.
Yet bread I buy cannot still my hunger,
Nor wine I pour quench this thirst within.
I feel wise chasing fleeting echoes,
Investing in shadows that slip through hands.
I feel restless, though I name it strength,
I feel certain, yet wander in doubt.
God feels merciful, calling aloud,
Come, eat freely, without
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Categories:
hope..., blessing, books, creation, death,
Form: Free verse
A Bond of Brotherhood
In a bottle's transparent depths,
ants struggled, waves of chaos
each fighting for life,
yet forming a living pyramid,
a reverberation of unity's might.
Some submerged, others held fast,
a coordinated dance of aid
no panic, no selfish haste,
each ant surrendered to the greater fate.
A spoon's gentle rescue came,
ants emerged, one by one,
until one faltered, slipped back
into the water's grasp.
The last ant
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Categories:
hope..., africa, allusion, heartbreak, hero,
Form: Free verse
Believe in the dream
When winning seems beyond hope
~ keep on trying with all you’ve got.
Double down. Don’t give up!
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2025
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Categories:
hope..., encouraging, hope, uplifting,
Form: Other
Sharon
She sat by the window and could only ask herself why
Because she surely didn’t know even as hard as she did try
Things just suddenly fell apart with not even an end in sight
It all just broke her heart and became an insufferable plight
Days and weeks went by and soon months had passed
Now she didn’t
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Categories:
hope..., faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Stranger things have happened song version
Stranger things have happened
Lightening strikes a man twice,
and he lives to tell
Said he never thought twice,
about the tolling bells
Refrain
Oh yeah, Oh yeah,
Stranger things have happened
The world watched as a child,
was pulled out... alive
Three days under the rubble,
with no way ...to survive
Refrain
Oh yeah, Oh yeah,
Stranger things have happened
Chorus
I know you told me, last year,
you were still
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Categories:
hope..., angst, break up, hope,
Form: Lyric
Naive Faith
In the still of dawn, tears fall, heartbroken
Sorrows murmur of the past’s distant dread
Words won’t come and the fear goes unspoken
As my soul seeks, unsure of what’s ahead
My mind wanders to light I can soak in
Knowing my soul will read those things unsaid
Singing grace through the night’s quiet shadows
And tears play in the verses I
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Categories:
hope..., appreciation, faith, god, gospel,
Form: Ottava rima
Falun Dafa Will Prevail part 3
Governments and Medias indifferent to the violence
Genocide was the price of the worlds silence
The CCP’s slaughter is demonic and sly
The persecution of Dafa, is a historic sigh
New Tang Dynasty's “Divine Performing Arts”
Will restore China's culture and the human heart
2006 Shen Yun was revered worldwide
Except by the CCP, their intentions couldn’t hide
“The sound of
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Categories:
hope..., appreciation, creation, dedication, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Falun Dafa Will Prevail, part 1
1992, Master Li Hongzhi’s benevolence shone through
To the public in China his amazing teaching grew
Falun Dafa emerged from prehistoric time
To guide Earth’s people to be true, good and kind
People practiced peacefully in parks each day
Before work, school, and even play
Cleansing their bodies with the five gentle moves
Cultivation of mind and heart was true
Morality and virtue
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Categories:
hope..., corruption, endurance, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Your Love Can't Be My Hope
Your Love Can’t Be My Hope
Dried hope, just one of my life, hmm, died romance
Wished from a sensitive and honest heart, lost life
Lost and never lived. Never lived true love. The true love
Hmm. How? Your love is not my love. But my love is yours
Keep. Cloud always flies above you. Do not watch over
Hmm. Hmm.
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Categories:
hope..., fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
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