See
...See the impacted eyes, heavy
and the frozen heart, begging
to be released; the tongue
dry, but the cheeks like a flume.
See the round table keep things
close to their chest, lest they spill
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Categories:
impacted, grief,
Form: Free verse
City in the sky
...The world is like a city in the sky,
conjured as it were, by the will of God
and immersed therein, each soul seeks to fly,
engaged in lust, giving not love a nod,
suffering needlessly till heart ...
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Categories:
impacted, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
How can I help?
...How can I help?
I was reading an article
about a conversation that a journalist was having with a Google executive
She said that with the H18 visa
She doesn’t feel like her stay in the US is p...
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Categories:
impacted, faith, hello,
Form: Free verse
monk mode
...free from thought and free from desire
no earthy goals left to aspire
vibrant without a to-do list
he who has become a bliss mist
knowing this world is but a stage
impacted not by other’s rage...
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Categories:
impacted, joy, spiritual,
Form: Lay
Four Cold Paws
...A dark cloud forms as tears fill her eyes, spilling into a stream that runs down her face. She bites her lip to quiet the echoes of her cries. A lump forms in her throat, pulsing with the ache sent s...
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Categories:
impacted, animal, beauty, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Tribute to Malcolm
...A tribute to Malcolm
Malcolm Jamal Warner
Was his name
Heaven sure did gain
An angel on earth
Now he's up in the skywatching over us
To us, he was the big brother we always wanted, you k...
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Categories:
impacted, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Pieces of Me
...I open my bathroom door,
Clothes on the floor,
I look in the mirror, but the reflection is not me that I see,
But the people I loathe instead.
It’s crazy to think that the people that hurt me,
T...
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Categories:
impacted, bullying, for teens, me,
Form: Rhyme
Wrap Your Arms Around the Earth
...Wrap Your Arms Around The Earth
Destruction around the world.
Mother nature at work.
Storms on the rise.
Buildings on fire.
Wiped off the map.
Submerged and trapped.
Need a heavenly ble...
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Categories:
impacted, storm,
Form: Rhyme
A senior moment experienced by this drip
...A senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingest...
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Categories:
impacted, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
Oil Fields
...Oil Fields
Too many long hours in the day.
Many hard days under the sun and in the rain.
After so many years, I now understand.
You worked a hard job on the land.
I don’t thank you enough.
...
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Categories:
impacted, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Federal Senators, I am asking you to protect Medicaid because
...our home care workers would lose their essential care taking jobs and their
clients would also lose their necessary services.
If you are on Medicaid, you should send your own cards to your Senato...
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Categories:
impacted, care, caregiving, work,
Form: Prose
Empirical upshot'
...I must allow..I am deeply impacted by the demenour, the
Character" of Ink Empress." my expression i feel must be
Expressed.' Or I would view myself.' As a most uncouth
Inversion..' Of appreciation...
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Categories:
impacted, appreciation, assonance, character, courage,
Form: Personification
a rose blossoms
...With bliss magnetism having exhumed ego,
we’re no longer impacted by fickle fate,
living internally in staid stillness slow,
distanced from patterns of old that used to bait,
for knowing life is ...
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Categories:
impacted, joy, light, self, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
One Captured Moment
...
In retrospect, I should have paused this poetic video.
Were I a musician, I would put this moment to music.
Had I done so, there would have been permeating and heart
felt words flowing from th...
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Categories:
impacted, care, memory,
Form: Narrative
A blushing rose
...Though the poisoned pawn should not be taken,
with lust and aversion not forsaken,
our stooped stance lets delusion gain traction,
so as we observe ego’s reaction,
we recognise soul’s yet to awak...
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Categories:
impacted, desire, lust, silence, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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