Glass Winged Dreams
...I tried to fly without white wings
I cried inside with soul dying
Broken spirit broken dreams
Can you hear it my black heart screams
I was asleep and yet awake
Nightmares so deep they escape
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Categories:
jailing, angst, anxiety, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
Famed National Leader Speaks-So Does the Poetess
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The Leader Speaks:
I just make believe I am a genius, like the great, gifted, Elon Musk.
And I fooled my entire nation, with my adled brain,of gruel and mush!
Behind me, fo...
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Categories:
jailing, change, character, humor, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
World War Three
...Written: September 05, 2023
World War 3 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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In the midst o...
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Categories:
jailing, analogy, bereavement, earth, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fighting the Embrace
...We have taken up arms
Against what has been rejected
Inoculated ideology
To prevent perfection from being infected
All energies focused on creating
A world promised, yet not attained
Hiding s...
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Categories:
jailing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Best Friends
...It was one of those days
Started with the shower
She wanted to join me
Which in any other day would’ve been great
But her best friend was sharing it sort of to speak
It was a sympathet...
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Categories:
jailing, hilarious, humor, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Nostalgia
...could not sleep at night
thrilled to wake and play around
in and out of rooms
as though gems hidden and found
nights merriment resurrected
smiles laughs howls screams shouts and yells
star...
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Categories:
jailing, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Tanka
White Knuckle
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Destined to repeat
yet another jailing to the hot rail
trip to an off-sale
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Categories:
jailing, addiction, drink, journey,
Form: Rhyme
South Africa
...South Africa
The rainbow paled in South Africa
the end of apartheid has ended, freedom for all.
Not quite, the poor in Soweto are getting poorer.
The difference it now consists of white poor a...
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Categories:
jailing, africa, anti bullying, color,
Form: Blank verse
The Thief's Offering
...The police are everywhere
And barracks are empty,
I see military fatigue, locusts
I see firearms that can make the devil blush
I see the MK 18 mod 1 carbine whose libido is famed abroad
I see t...
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Categories:
jailing, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Thru Maritime Miles 5-Danger On the High Seas
...In spite of the choice that I made to be wed
The call of the sea was the voice in my head
The wreck of a ship that I bought on a dare
Was ripe for a trip with a little repair
I gathered a crew ...
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Categories:
jailing, conflict, fishing, humor, ocean,
Form: Epic
The Wife
...Her wings are sublime, fluttering about,
From blue to an indigo plum,
Filling her world with a delicate shade,
Filling the void with her hum,
Then she lands on her perch, her small wooden per...
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Categories:
jailing, beauty, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Is There Anything Left You Can Trust
...In these perplexing days, I look around and lying seems to be the norm a political storm with high officials who cannot solve the nation's debt.yet *********** is protected by law. Safe places for in...
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Categories:
jailing, betrayal, bible, christian, conflict,
Form: I do not know?
Wake Up America
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Transmogrify the sensationalist
An astute ableism of absolution and idiocy
Divine demeaning meanings demoralizing democracy
Through persuasive procrastination and promiscuity
Festering frag...
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Categories:
jailing, america, conflict, how i
Form: Free verse
No One To Say
...No one to say
captivity
brutal torture
starvation
forced civilization
abuse
manipulation
evil impurities
calamities
are an existence in our reality
nowadays
yet their is
no one to say...
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Categories:
jailing, africa, care, courage, emotions,
Form: Epic
Son of Man
...son of man
oh you got power
you rule with
great authorities
you are in charge
of a lot innocent
minds
no wonder you
don't listen
not even to God
no wonder you see
yourself equal to ...
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Categories:
jailing, abuse, africa, dedication, humanity,
Form: Epic
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