Abrupt
...Irkish the feeling impels
Impulsive of it's own action.
Disfigurely quenching,
And on it's feet it commands
A riot so clenching
Flinching the heart's
Utmost fibres none can comprehend.
"Xeno" ...
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Categories:
impels, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sky of Fireflies
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My head feels like it's being squeezed in a vise. Eardrums must have blown out from the explosion since I hear absolutely nothing, not even my own breath. Slowly rising to my feet I survey the dama...
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Categories:
impels, war,
Form: Haibun
The Dream Patrol
...Willie Winkie lived in a land of magic, in the region called Butterfly Haven;
For Willie was a diminutive elf, like the violet blossoms, of purple fixation.
Willie and his beloved wife, E...
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Categories:
impels, community, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Delivery
...A living poem, not yet written,
not yet visible, haunts the periphery
of the inner eye.
She is as light as a feather,
though she has a deep-set gravity,
her presence impels my mind toward her....
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Categories:
impels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Bells In Honor of Edgar Allan Poe
...A Revised Edition
From The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. II, 1850
In the icy air where the stars do sprinkle bright
keeping time, keeping time
with the jingling bells ...
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Categories:
impels, appreciation, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
...Distort of sounds strum his bow —sawed heart rhythms,
mischievous fool impels my mind's rapt boredom.
The devil's finger warns and pivots, sedates,
adrift among alleged stolen dreamscapes.
The je...
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Categories:
impels, confusion, sleep,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Creating a New You
...Written: August 28, 2023
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If you don't covet where you live, my friend,
Imagine a fitter home, a place to mend,
A sanct...
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Categories:
impels, analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form: Rhyme
Healthy Caring Systems
...Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich...
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Categories:
impels, culture, earth, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Acads
..."Never been this eager to earn
Even a single layer of ahead expectations
Murmurs between excellence and failures
Impels me to be bordered with lots of agitation,
Mind clouded of disparate though...
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Categories:
impels, 11th grade, angel, april,
Form: Free verse
Thrive Joy Tajitu
...Tao clears mind myriad
Hears gurgled stream trickle
Rejuvenating ease of river
Impels an outlook simple
Verdant steppes imperial
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Categories:
impels, beautiful, wisdom,
Form: Acrostic
Essence of Divinity
...Intrinsic awareness channeled through time
Impels the cognitive basic impulses incessant
Intones the echoing rhythm of benign bliss
Inside the emptiness of resonating perception.
Inv...
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Categories:
impels, introspection, joy, life, spiritual,
Form: Verse
To Compel Is To Repel
...Does it not the sight repel
Trying to others compel
Against their wish on a thing
And their ‘’No!’’ did loudly ring?
It can’t to Heaven propel
Deeds that could students expel;
For which p...
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Categories:
impels, bullying, education, today, youth,
Form: Rhyme
27 Club
...born with a fierce urge
to create
to express
to emote
soul gifts that pour into the body
and must be released
you cannot imagine the driving force
that impel...
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Categories:
impels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Past Present and Future
...Most of us come from the past,
And we use it to create the present.
Those few who manage to really excel in life
Come from the future.
They have a vision, a mission that impels them forward.
The...
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Categories:
impels, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Bayou
...The early morning fog bathes the green slime and trees in a gray hue as birds flutter to and fro and squirrels scurry from their beds, playing a tag game of “You're it.” and an early morning feast am...
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Categories:
impels, beauty, endurance, nature,
Form: Free verse
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