Fulcrum of a Rose
...Fulcrum of a Rose
A lambent sight, my morning star,
sweet essence on my tongue.
A mem'ry stirred—those bygone days,
a secret love so young.
That lambent sight, my nostrils seared,...
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Categories:
instants, destiny, fear, hope, senses,
Form: Free verse
How do you fight when the battle is within you, and every attempt seems doomed to fail
...How do you fight when the battle is within you, and every attempt seems doomed to fail,
When you thought you were strong, but now you see you're caught in the web of doubt,
A stranger in your own s...
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Categories:
instants, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Our Lost Eternity
...Our Lost Eternity
by Lord R.e. Taylor
When we are young
Time really means nothing
We have an eternity before us
And so much life left to live
Sadly, the years fly by
And the eternity begins ...
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Categories:
instants, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Heart of Sand
...Arid grains
of heart
instants unseized
on time
slipping
the hourglass
unaged by life
as time
cradled on earth
brown lap
by media winds
of day
not digging
its oil wealth
to set its hear...
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Categories:
instants, change,
Form: Free verse
Euphoric Epithet
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Disarrayed sands
dislodged from timeless domain,
dropped by chaotic instants,
settle ceaseless,
bemused
on stratified shelf
of languid life,
disorgani...
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Categories:
instants, analogy, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
In an Instant
...In an instant, life can change,
Things get weird, and paths feel strange.
A spark, a flash, it all can shift,
And suddenly, you're set adrift.
A word, a hug, a simple smile,
Can make you happy...
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Categories:
instants, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fickle Instant Osmosis
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Ephemeral eternity — covers osmosis pinnacles
In a loving natural roots, nostalgia never fails
Welcomed. . .we wander — and cry
It slinks slackly not dwelling in the gloom. . .
Gestalt ther...
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Categories:
instants, adventure, morning, time,
Form: Free verse
Stardust
...
The opaque grains of darkness drizzle silently
from the curved cauldron of the seamless sky,
the silver embroidered satin tapestry rolls out
from the cornucopia of the falling night,
as the ...
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Categories:
instants, analogy, beauty, peace,
Form: Free verse
Transcendental Triptych of Epiphanies
...into the depths of the bell jar
In quiet solitude
on an autumn night
i drifted through
a quotidian quagmire.
fleeting thoughts of stillness
sparked a quest
for t...
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Categories:
instants, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Frozen Emotive Clock
...
time stops to slip in ebony night,
emotive clock freezes
eternal pathos in congealed instants,
silhouetted in the shadow of past,
smears the strata of darkness,
designed to dis...
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Categories:
instants, emotions, sorrow, time,
Form: Free verse
summer
...
summer red sunsets
faded with the blue ocean
hug a starry night
above dark waters
the stars' optimal moment
attract watching eyes
~best twinkling instants~
a reverie to ...
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Categories:
instants, blessing, creation, night, star,
Form: Haiku
Requiem For A Motherless Child
...The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are...
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Categories:
instants, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Mudlarking The Memory
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Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice
of longing
luminescent,
the veering valley
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the caden...
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Categories:
instants, analogy, inspirational, memory,
Form: Free verse
Darkness
...
In the ebony night time stops to flow,
the still hands of the impetus clock freeze
the timeless infinite pathos in congealed instants
for listless life wandering on the shadows of past,
star...
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Categories:
instants, analogy, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
Futile Foray
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The uphill climb,
rigorously relentless
with ambling ambitions
and schematic stratagem,
blueprinted blatantly
on the blank
parchment of mind,
sketched skillfully
with chameleon color s...
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Categories:
instants, analogy, life, time,
Form: Free verse
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