Wearable Tech
...I think that if I could have wearable tech
it might be a vest that inflates in a wreck.
Perhaps a decoder of lyrics by Beck,
or one that converts between gallons and pecks?
Or lets me run wild in...
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Categories:
inflates, silly, technology,
Form: Monorhyme
EGO Vs OGE
...
EGO and OGE, paradoxical words,
Contrast in essence, like songbirds and herds.
While EGO inflates chest with pride,
OGE humbles, letting grace reside.
EGO demands attention, steals the ...
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Categories:
inflates, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1
...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Because morning glories
held my well-bucket hostage
I went be...
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Categories:
inflates, animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Pride
...One of the easiest mistakes to make is having too much pride.
It is the sneakiest of snakes as it makes its home inside.
It only needs the teeniest tinyest of space til it inflates then trouble...
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Categories:
inflates, pride,
Form: Free verse
Living In Purgatory
...Living in Purgatory
What do you do when you've had enough
You Can't end it all
But you no longer want to continue
Because you cant move forward
The pasts grip
is holding you back
But it w...
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Categories:
inflates, anxiety, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Snowstorm
...grim starkness of snow
sturdy in its sleeted falling
willing a bleached landscape
a lushness
that chokes the rough field terrain
strides of power
as the fevered wind
spirals In an unexpecte...
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Categories:
inflates, environment, january, snow, winter,
Form: Imagism
Living In Purgatory
...Include the date 30/01/2022, contest name, 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 26 Poetry Contest.
Living in Purgatory
What do you do when you've had enough
You Can't end it all
But you no longer want ...
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Categories:
inflates, anger, change, conflict, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Pride of the Defeated
...come on, open that door to face
what did you leave in the antechamber of your happiness
(I'm talking about the sad, chained lions roaring their nightmares
of the bloodthirsty watering that prod...
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Categories:
inflates, pride,
Form: Free verse
The River That Never Lets You Drown
...the river that never lets you drown
oh cry baby save me your tears
oh cry baby tell me your fears
i will chew them up and spit them out
so please tell me what it’s all about
i’m leaving m...
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Categories:
inflates, anger, angst, beauty, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Until the Mirror Cracks
...The ego of the atheist,
himself the standard bearer
Where power of a mortal mind,
inflates beyond repair
His facts he weds intensely,
dimension fencing in
What’s not explained, he must profan...
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Categories:
inflates, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Macho Man
...The chauvinist, is not "Man"
is a hilarious gas
that inflates a meat puppet...!
Without reason or judgment......
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Categories:
inflates, allusion, analogy, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Epigram
The Village On the Water Vi
...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his penchant...
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Categories:
inflates, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water V
...Showering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticen...
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Categories:
inflates, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Magnificent Frigate Bird
...I am a slender looking sea bird having forked tails,
long hooked bills and a white under belly.
My genus is marked by sexual dimorphism.
My mate tries to do so many wonderful things so that
I w...
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Categories:
inflates, bird, love, poems,
Form: Personification
Poverty Trap
...They tell them the reality of yesterday is their tomorrow
Save the cries for different versions of sorrow
The world is hash but there is a God who is omnipotent
The world has abundance if they cho...
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Categories:
inflates, africa, patriotic, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse
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