Compassion's Rage
...Your name leaves a bruise on my lips,
like a ghost that lingers, life to strip,
with eyes that threaten as they smile
and a voice that cuts, low and vile.
My heart cries out in silence dark,
whi...
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Categories:
incinerate, abuse, anger, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Self-esteem Attributes
...
This is how one of my friends describes
my character attributes.
In many blood-shot blazing eyes he sees
they seethe inside in the inferno of anger,
throw out raging words from the venomou...
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Categories:
incinerate, analogy, character, self,
Form: Ode
The Dinosaurs At Webb Dock
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Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river -
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint ...
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Categories:
incinerate, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
incinerate, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Jewel Of Jesus
...
My soul wanders in the dark alley of the inner domain
with my senses flung in the cauldron of dismay.
The indistinct frailty future shrouded by obscurity
casts shapeless shadows of ti...
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Categories:
incinerate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Isn't it Sad To Seek Unfairness?
...Do we allow the compelling mind to control our unwilling steps?
Do they obey or deviate from the path smeared with insecurities?
Isn't it sad to seek unfairness instead of much desirable closeness?...
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Categories:
incinerate, anger, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The old ones feed
...Insipid be the bounty, lain before the masses.
Languishing are those the ravenous harasses.
Mortals just morsels to a hunger never sated.
Fear laden blood keeps who feeds intoxicated.
The crazed ...
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Categories:
incinerate, dark, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now in...
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Categories:
incinerate, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Loss Won't Prevent Anyone From Trying Again
...Shun an useless, long wait: patience is a powerful skill,
incinerate in sparkling fire vainglorious dreams;
know true, inner serenity: kick off doubts and illusions,
set in motion each aspiration,...
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Categories:
incinerate, abuse, character, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Ghost of Winston Smith
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Announcement to all Outer party members:
Thomas Woodward is dead. He is an unperson. You are to incinerate anything in your possession that might be contaminated with his DNA. All memories of hi...
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Categories:
incinerate, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
From The Coal Mine
...From The Coal Mine …
Liars …
early prophets
of impending doom
(The New Room: February, 2024)
The Moment Shared
We often forget
wrapped up
in our own drama
— that everyone feels ...
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Categories:
incinerate, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Friend In My Thoughts As a Lover
...Where hast thou gone off to
What starlit sky hast thine saddened eyes gazed upon
From whence might I be able to witness
Thy form twist around in wisps of stardust
And from thither create within m...
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Categories:
incinerate, best friend, heartbreak, romance,
Form: Free verse
Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...
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Categories:
incinerate, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Firestarter
...I have always been a fire starter
burning the unnecessary
to mingle with the ashes;
I do not stir the pot
just toss out excess;
Incinerate
all the fluff
in my
path. p...
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Categories:
incinerate, emotions, feelings, fire,
Form: Nonet
Forgiveness
...In your blazing blood-shot eyes I see
you seethe inside in the inferno of anger.
The twisted tongue throws out raging words,
charged with the toxin of your venomous mind.
The sanctity ...
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Categories:
incinerate, anger, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
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