FRAMED
...A spineless society claims its might,
With echoes of empty convictions,
Chanting lies, then painting them white.
It builds colossal monuments of blame,
Raised upon deception’s foundation,
And...
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Categories:
indented, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
hannah’s song
...hannah’s song
with cotton clouds above her
and yellow daisies at her feet
she danced to a quiet sonnet
of freedom
hands outstretched
and palms towards the heavens
her blonde hair f...
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Categories:
indented, angel, bible, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Wine Tastes Better Aged
...Flourished and nourished,
hair locks resembling branches,
I gaze as it dances —
when blowing, he looks glowing.
Twenty years had passed,
but still, I last.
I may have ripened,
but I'm st...
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Categories:
indented, age, confidence, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Now Continuum
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Beneath the surface of the perceptive mortal senses
the mind nestles the buds of dreams it desires to see bloom.
Allured by avid aspirations into insipid ignorance,
it suffers w...
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Categories:
indented, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Grasping Talons of Desire
...I want to cling
To you
The way vultures do
Circling in
On every movement
Until the last exhale in winter’s air
Replacing bed sheets
With blankets of
Frosted covered grass
Openi...
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Categories:
indented, animal, deep,
Form: Free verse
Bright Lies and Silent Cries
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Written: January 12, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Colored earth
lies in fragmented bits
gold and silve...
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Categories:
indented, analogy, creation,
Form: Other
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance.
That lying in t...
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Categories:
indented, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
You tell me I am too much, as if your heart were a forbidden place, locked away
...You tell me “I am too much,” as if your heart were a forbidden place, locked away,
As if feeling deeply were a wound that refuses to close beneath the vast sky.
But, darling, I crave the storm in y...
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Categories:
indented, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tint Of Orange
...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories:
indented, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism
Footprints
...In nature's view
indented path along beach
your feet shall lead me...
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Categories:
indented, god,
Form: Senryu
September Falls
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Stirs gently the breeze of late
summer's grace
Endowing fall its trails ,and all is fair
Pine trees quiver in cool mists which
embrace
The last of September...
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Categories:
indented, appreciation, summer,
Form: Acrostic
Metamorphosis
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In the ostensible show of life’s drama,
enactments perfected with the labor of passion,
aureate the sequel created by metamorphic alchemy.
The surreptitious shift from one actor to another,
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Categories:
indented, analogy, change, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Paradigm Of Contrast
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For the contrived inducement of fixated being,
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness,
the personified indented identity,
changes in the self-devised palette
of metamorphosed color mélange,
w...
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Categories:
indented, analogy, change, life,
Form: Free verse
Words and scars
...Sometimes words are like scars indented on paper leaving a lasting memory...
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Categories:
indented, memory,
Form: Monoku
Good Friday Stranded
...Four months pregnant
show them the belly.
Real not plastic,
Ultrasound glares pierce
a lack of eye contact
stuck at the Papa John's
on Fountainbridge. Eleven PM.
Drunken men to be avoide...
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Categories:
indented, baby, mum, religion,
Form: Free verse
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