Beauty has an expectation
...Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is defined at first in a home.
It is i...
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Categories:
inauthentic, allegory, beauty, culture, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Fisher Folk
...
Have you heard of Fisher Folk
Masked and disguised
Often difficult to see
When in front of your very eyes
Some will see through the disguise
Once engaged in conversation
Others will never...
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Categories:
inauthentic, identity, image, perspective, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Departure
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When I depart this world
I will take with me
A heart abundant and bestowed with love and kindness
A fulfilled life lived happily
I know my words sound somewhat fluffy and light
P...
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Categories:
inauthentic, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Song
...A song we both liked once grinds-on,
a needle on a disc etching deep grooves
into mutual experiences.
The cat we once shared, died.
Our dog chased the cat in its leg-twitching dreams
until its...
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Categories:
inauthentic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Do It For Yourself
...Do it for yourself
By Michelle Morris
05/04/2023
Do it for yourself
Not for anyone else
The choices that you make
Will live with you forever
For everything we do
Is stamped upon our soul...
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Categories:
inauthentic, blessing, destiny, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse
Insincerity
...I always try to think the best of people
Believe their intentions are genuine and true
Though today I’m questioning sincerity
Are hidden agendas behind what they say and do?
I am of a gullible...
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Categories:
inauthentic, betrayal, hurt, people,
Form: Rhyme
Mesmorised
...the straight jacket
of convention
bring
random
consolations,
so
apposite:
the drawback
of the trivial,
underlined
by the inauthentic,
unruffled
by the marginal,
proxy-proof
in the ...
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Categories:
inauthentic, community, life,
Form: Verse
Outside Voices Choices
...Some of us,
admittedly too few
in my detached opinion,
still search for Beauty in metrics
and for Truth in arts
and integrity in secular humanity
with and for sacred divinity
studies.
Pro...
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Categories:
inauthentic, anti bullying, bullying, growth,
Form: Political Verse
The Intimate Observer
...Enough about hearts and frivolousness.
I have sealed many pages with my mark
Of flowers and red and the bluest of roses.
Trees of green and blue skies
I have developed an intimacy with these word...
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Categories:
inauthentic, blue, inspiration,
Form: Cinquain
Reyinning Yang
...Imagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality
Imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day...
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Categories:
inauthentic, creation, health, nature, political,
Form: Political Verse