Peace of Mind
...
In the mere blink of a nightmare, I found myself rechained
and trapped where my peace of mind had once before
collapsed.
The die has been cast, an old challenge from the past, one
I ...
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Categories:
incited, anger, anxiety, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
incited, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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:
incited, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Forgive me if my love seemed less
...Forgive me if my love seemed less
( An apology to myself )
Forgive me if my love seemed less
when you were fading into the dark,
If I couldn't grasp your hand as shadows pulled you ...
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Categories:
incited, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Swarmed
...One shade below hot pink crazy
lies the hue of the unreformed;
Sly malcontents always performed
One shade below hot pink crazy;
Instructions on living wildly
incited a shift when they swarmed...
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Categories:
incited, emotions, feelings, repetition,
Form: Triolet
DNC Chairman's Convention Song
...
‘Tis the season for a convention
Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
Fear and angst and apprehension
Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
Will the protests turn to riots
Fa-la-l...
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Categories:
incited, chicago, political, song, violence,
Form: Lyric
A civil war ferociously raged
...A civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his l...
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Categories:
incited, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
trickling treck
....
brrrr
to bone
thuh
may'z wet
purty gray
spring
roll'n 'long pennsyltucky's
appalachia
'twixt eve's
mine
limbz
*i chould..sh mention t...
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Categories:
incited, adventure, beautiful, blessing, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Justifying For His Revengefulness
...Should he justify himself
for his revengefulness,
which was the outcome
of a well-delivered response?
How bitter is the farewell to youth...
when one is close to scary death!
He wished that th...
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Categories:
incited, daughter, death, evil, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
From The Heart
...
If I'm never able to kiss you again
Our souls are forever united
Never again will our sweet love stray
A burning desire you've incited
It hurts so badly, it's indescribable
Want to f...
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Categories:
incited, love,
Form: Rhyme
Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face
...Red hot chili pepper poker face...
Born that way angry antithetical
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprie...
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Categories:
incited, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Vargas Pin Up Girls
...Vargas pin up girls of the thirties
intrigued us, delighted us, incited us
then along came Barbie, reinforcing
that women are beautiful,
almost as delightful as the automobiles they sell...
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Categories:
incited, art,
Form: Light Verse
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
...Stricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courte...
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Categories:
incited, abuse, age, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
The Light From the Shadows
...The Light from the Shadows
The light from the shadows of a thousand candles burning
The bright configuration of a lighthouse plainly warning
Plain sight considerations of a future that is formin...
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Categories:
incited, 12th grade, courage, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Upon the Heath
...After the greedily laden cirrus' lighten their loads,
a dog day returns to our suburban sanctuary.
As the mercury ascends like a climber captured in a glass tube,
the heath's heady aromas revoke o...
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Categories:
incited, nature,
Form: Free verse
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