IN THE EVERGREEN OF HOPE
...IN THE EVERGREEN OF HOPE
In the forest of despair,
The evergreen of hope,
Firmly rooted,
Stands in the mist
Of the saws
Of injustice:
Her tired body
Having withstood
The fires of debilitat...
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Categories:
impregnating, destiny, extended metaphor, hope,
Form: Prose
In the house of prayer
...every gesture graceful
every glance
every smile
in reverence
echoes of words spoken
fall on hungry ears
chants elevate the soul
resonating at higher levels
an air of peace reigns
hovering ...
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Categories:
impregnating, devotion, introspection, peace, prayer,
Form: Free verse
EBONY REMINISCENCE
...Black as the night
My sable soul sings
Songs praising Nubian
Ancestors dancing
To treed thoughts
Rooted in the womb
Of my pregnant
Poetic mind…
Such is the essence
Of poetic labors of lo...
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Categories:
impregnating, allegory,
Form: Free verse
My Poetry Session of ANXIOUS sorrow
...Hours and hours of wasting time has escalated my anxieties…
I'm sorry, God, I'm addicted to so many bad behaviors…
Powers enlighten my mindset, and flowers make me feel at ease
Dementia kicking in...
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Categories:
impregnating, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Submisive Loser Dominant Victors Shower Of Rage
...The Naked brazen placid blue
Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses
Who unleashes his growing anger and fury
Obliterating and defeating his enemy
Proclaims a victory and unrolls his miserable ...
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Categories:
impregnating, anger, birth, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Cows
...COWS
Big pregnant
Grazing eating birthing
Pasture farm barn field
Mating fighting impregnating
Big horns
BULL...
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Categories:
impregnating, animal,
Form: Diamante
Virgous 39 Planetoad
...In 3005 in the uncharted Dispision Galaxy
a dwarf planets largest volcano erupts.
A pink and pale bluish midst and lava
Hearlds towards a deep; deep large ravine.
An explotion accures, ash and st...
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Categories:
impregnating, betrayal, break up, city,
Form: Didactic
Orphaning Winds
...Changing with each season,
voices come and go
what’s lost undreamed, ourselves demeaned,
in search of the unknown
Naked and left wanting,
fortune sires myth
impregnating its mystery
—with t...
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Categories:
impregnating, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
I Saw Hope
...Like a lonely ship
blue carpet beneath
Wandering in the infinite
Dawn to dusk
None in the sight
Like rays of East
Spreading orange
In the blue room
Impregnating energy
Abolishing gloom
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Categories:
impregnating, hope, perspective, philosophy, simple,
Form: Free verse
I Do Not Hang On To Bodies
...She’s dead they said!
She I thought. Who is she?
I stared straight down at a frumpy old thing.
On the bed, a lump, so dead.
Was that me? I asked my spirit guide.
My guide laughed; he always lo...
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Categories:
impregnating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Read Poetry
...To understand poetry you must read poetry
By External Journalist
It is said that a teacher from the countryside once asked Mario Quintana:
What should I read to understand Shakespeare?
And ...
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Categories:
impregnating, allusion, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
Each Day of Our Lives
...Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minera...
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Categories:
impregnating, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
I Refuse To Sanitise
...No, I will not sanitize
Lest I am confronted
By another dreadful day!
I refuse to sanitise
I will let myself die
For fear
That I will open my door
On the morrow
To let the news in,
The su...
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Categories:
impregnating, death,
Form: Blank verse
The Passing Over of Ugliness
...it has been written
in one of the books of nikki…
if you look into a mirror
you’ll see a beautiful creature
looking back at you…
it is assumed
that in the reality
of nature there are both
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Categories:
impregnating, allah, allegory, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
...
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinit...
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Categories:
impregnating, color, dark, humanity, i
Form: Narrative
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