Unreadable Traces
...Don't call it fever.
Listen
it was a phrase
crystallized in time,
suspended in the air
between us.
Feel how flesh cannot lie
when language
inscribes itself in blood
in a tongue
we never lea...
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Categories:
inscribes, absence, abuse, anxiety, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth
...Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth.
In the library of destiny, where each heart inscribes its chronicles,
I lingered among the scrolls of loss, in the cham...
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Categories:
inscribes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Zen
...Placed First in Zen, Zinnia, Zephyr Words Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
“You are beautiful because of the light
you carry within you." – Alexandra Elle
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Categories:
inscribes, beauty, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Gnarled Shadows
...Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
No slumber dreamt; no answer could I get.
Eura...
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Categories:
inscribes, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Beneath the diaphanous vault where shadow and humanity dissolve
...Beneath the diaphanous vault where shadow and humanity dissolve,
The fabric of nature unravels into an inscrutable residue of secrets,
Far from the world’s gaze, in the salt of the wilderness, a di...
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Categories:
inscribes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When eternity and the moment embrace under the dome of stars
...When eternity and the moment embrace under the dome of stars,
Love, the soul's royal garment, confronts the sword of time.
It is the torch that burns to the bone, battling against death,
And with ...
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Categories:
inscribes, love,
Form: Free verse
Golden Shovel
...The meticulous melody of my musings is she.
Quietly my quill inscribes intrinsic ink upon the paths she walks.
Profoundly postulated in poems I've portrayed her in -
she's inspired ingenious image...
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Categories:
inscribes, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Verse
Changing Direction of Time Arrow
...In time arrow’s one way course the winds of change blow,
wafting from the fading end to an unknown another new,
the thrust of transformation they get from the power
the spurt of history gives ...
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Categories:
inscribes, change, time, world,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow Today
...Because we can't comprehend the future
It is easy to say it does not exist
Until tomorrow
Then tomorrow will come for the alive
Consolidating yesterday’s activities
Strengthening the will
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Categories:
inscribes, destiny, fate, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
A Knife To the Heart
...Her pen is poised,
Her mind, unruffled
A strange smile plays on her lips.
The knife caged in her iron grip
Glistens in the moonlight,
Today, she shall set her lover free.
As the first...
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Categories:
inscribes, anger, angst, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Legacy
...Seeds may grow to blossom.
And fruits that came to us freely.
May go to feed the next generation.
The steppingstones of legacy
When it is time to die, we may discover.
That we had never fully ...
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Categories:
inscribes, future, leaving, life, memorial,
Form: Sonnet
Hope For Words
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She left me enlightened
With her “Heart’s Imagination”
Taught me about love
In the ink of “Melting Point”
She gave me a whisper of insight
Within the breath of “O ...
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Categories:
inscribes, inspiration, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ever Changing
...Music can only be heard one way,
words have a different refrain
Melody imprisoned by note and score,
what’s written when read apt to change
The ear a prisoner to the composer’s delight,
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Categories:
inscribes, music, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Now My Love
...For my love is now
Every moment counts
As we take our vow
Cupids on their mounts
Kisses will endow...
Love eternal
Orchestral vibes
Spice nocturnal
Desire inscribes...
Love is he...
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Categories:
inscribes, emotions, first love, uplifting,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Her Sojourn In the Wild
...Her sojourn in the wild
Her sojourn in the wild
Packed in her reverie
Doting the scent of love
Muffled up with old melodies and
Few muffins to eat
Those hushed leaves made most hissing
If...
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Categories:
inscribes, 12th grade, april, character,
Form: Narrative
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