The World is Bleeding
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The world is bleeding; anyone can see.
Red with blood it is indeed.
Oh, when from pain will we all be free?
A sickness infects the bourgeoisie
while we suffer from callous leaders’ greed....
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Categories:
infects, humanity,
Form: Villanelle
I wander through the rust of twilight, carrying your name like a bell
...I wander through the rust of twilight, carrying your name like a bell melted in a still-throbbing heart
I don't know if I love you or if my pupils just shine under your uncertain and fragile spell
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Categories:
infects, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In a sea of roses, the ashes of your ghost still wander
...In a sea of roses, the ashes of your ghost still wander,
breathing you in deeply, I try to pierce through the veils of time,
but to no avail, only a bitter emptiness fills my weary soul.
Fate temp...
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Categories:
infects, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Sea Of Roses
...The ashes of your ghost still roam within a sea of roses.
Breathing you in, I try to reach through the veils,
yet to no avail.
The bitter emptiness is all I can feel.
The Fates keep taunting, t...
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Categories:
infects, dark, gothic, imagery, poetess,
Form: Free verse
WAS THERE EVER A TIME?
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An old couple seated on a park bench…lamenting the trouble the world is in…
wondered if there was ever a time when the hierarchy of human values
was not based on the color of one’s skin.
A tim...
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Categories:
infects, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Is The Night
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Only on full moon does my essence
find release,
When the blaze of moments infects
my hunger for raw wantonness...
Gulls skitter on coastlines
and reel overhead
Their croons hera...
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Categories:
infects, celebration, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Bad news infects the teller
...Bad news
Infects the teller..
The teller
Conveys news which
Is believed to have
Arisen in a fictitious
Past time..news
In the telling
Colored with belief
Is what is happen...
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Categories:
infects, fantasy, self,
Form: Light Verse
Trapped
...Conquered by the truth of lies
Entwined in the snares of his subtle grasp
I faced him once before
Bound by the shackles of his dominance
A tempest of fear rages within
I reach for the windows ...
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Categories:
infects, change, conflict, deep, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Remember This Well
...How do you feel about ai ?
The sophomore's been hijacked by the Robot, all pretentious speech, vain trifles, and vacant syllables. What a lullaby of sterile verse, a monotonous drone of uninspired...
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Categories:
infects, dark,
Form: Free verse
Another Incident
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It was a balmy night by the sea
the bar wasn't empty, nor was it full
I was on my 5th whiskey sour
it matched my mood
some days a detective
some days a writer
now and then even a poet
no...
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Categories:
infects, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Mask of Glass
...I am injured. And I am alone. Your mask falls & hits the floor like shattering glass. But this is not the first time your beautiful reflection has deceived me, no. I've lost count of the number of ti...
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Categories:
infects, abuse, addiction, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
My Escape Route
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I am on an Isolated Airline flight, 747
sitting in first class
with my carry-on bag
Looking out the window
Viewing the horizon
Seeing patches of clouds
In the blue sky
I am on my way to...
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Categories:
infects, adventure, allusion, loneliness,
Form: Ekphrasis
Bloodstained Soul
...Bloodstained Soul May 2023
Everything hurts, my lungs are on fire-
Can't even complete things which success requires.
I cry and I try, pave my path with my blood.-
Then try to stop bleeding, w...
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Categories:
infects, children, dark, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
The Deadly Sin of Pride
...A virus-like vice infects us all,
Tis the sin that made Lucifer fall.
like a canker hidden from sight,
It destroys the soul like a blight.
When in others this sin we detect,
Our hearts assume ...
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Categories:
infects, christian, evil, pride, religion,
Form: Rhyme
A Morning Walk Through a Cemetery
...I don’t know how memory works…where it ends…or where it starts…
but today I found it guided me to the cemetery of my heart.
It’s a solemn, meditative place that in the heart has no parallel.
The...
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Categories:
infects, death, memory,
Form: Rhyme
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