Poems and Poets
...For once in my life,
I want to be a poem,
Written with many metaphors,
By a poet with a heart that flows
Flowers of romanticism like the rivers
That roar with devotion deeper than the oceans.
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Categories:
immortalise, art, muse, passion, poems,
Form: Free verse
Mean Girls and Trolls
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I never knew some girls could be so mean
and carry on like a trans high school teen.
It sure ain’t raging hormones
cos this coven are old crones
who crave attention and wish to be see...
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Categories:
immortalise, anti bullying, conflict, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Buddy Breathing
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"Buddy Breathing"
Ten leagues below
the bed of the ocean in my heart,
strange creatures exist,
they guard the gate
of all things that
have past
the sound of the...
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Categories:
immortalise, character, imagination, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Aphantasia
...Greek, without imagination.
What a beautiful word,
A beautiful word for the condition that plagues my soul,
As I lie awake at night
As I try to dream
As I cry.
Daring myself to remember
The ...
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Categories:
immortalise, 9th grade, age, death,
Form: Free verse
My Shiny Beetle
...My Shiny Beetle
I found a shiny beetle,
I call him Glitterbug Jim.
He’s dead and I’m heartbroken
So I’m going to immortalise him.
I’ll wrap him round in resin
So all the world can see
His sp...
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Categories:
immortalise, heartbroken, humor, insect, obituary,
Form: Rhyme
Him
...It has always been my nature to live through a pen. I have never known my feelings until they formed into poetry. And I fear memory will never be enough to keep a record of every heartbeat. So it onl...
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Categories:
immortalise, blessing, boyfriend, dream, i
Form: Free verse
Epiphany
...Great poetry is spoilt in heroic times
That go unsung on emotional climes,
In rhythm-laden occurrences in life's
Countless merrymakings and strifes.
And so why do we say crisp verse
Comes...
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Categories:
immortalise, art,
Form: Lyric
Epiphany
...Great poetry is spoilt in heroic times
That go unsung on emotional climes,
In rhythm-laden occurrences in life's
Countless merrymakings and strifes.
And so why do we say crisp verse
Comes...
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Categories:
immortalise, art,
Form: Lyric
Scared of My Last Goodnight
...Theres only so many words in a day,
To tell you how I feel,
I wish I could capture the sand of time -
for precious seconds to steal,
I’m facing my own morality,
I know my death is near,
It...
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Categories:
immortalise, death,
Form: Free verse
Writing Poetry
...To all the poets
who write so well,
who write from the heart,
their feelings they tell.
Hastily scribbled
for all to read,
to merit responses,
to fill that need.
To aid in recovering
f...
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Categories:
immortalise, literature, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Her Kiss Is Paradise: Henshaw Kate
...Now and again my heart tried to freeze
Until I behold the feet of the very best!
At the shoulder of the evening breeze
I quietly sort my wearied head to rest
As the nightingale which sings fo...
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Categories:
immortalise, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, eulogy,
Form: Couplet
Words Can Paint a Thousand Pictures
...Beware the bullies and the hecklers
for I am in need of material.
It is a need born of worse than you,
a need born from much greater than want.
Stand aside those that would love me
to see me s...
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Categories:
immortalise, abuse,
Form: Free verse
He Wishes To Immortalise His Mistress
...(after Michelangelo Buonarotti)
How is it, ma mignonne, (as we all know)
that figures carved in mountain marble stay
exquisite, pristine, everlasting, though
the hand that shaped them dies, and...
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Categories:
immortalise, art,
Form: Sonnet
Soul Cry- For System Resurrection
...Mystified me, the expressions so weird;
Neither love nor acceptance
It stirred my soul, churned my mind
Why so?? bewilderment continued...
Humiliation, reprimands, insults
Discrimination, inn...
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Categories:
immortalise, angel, art,
Form: Free verse
The Value
...The tree
has fallen
The
domestic
choose the
ways of the
wild
Rules are
broken
Things fall
apart
The virgin
have lost
her virginity
Where is
our aged
father?
They have ...
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Categories:
immortalise, america, old, grave, old,
Form: ABC
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