My Inner Voice Told Me
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Written: June 08, 2025, contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon.
Quote "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." By RUMI
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Categories:
jugged, analogy, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Simon's Halfpennyworth Laugh
...Simple Simon was not really his name,
A nom de plume, of poetic fame.
Each poem he composed, he carved backwards on wood,
Then printed on foolscap as fast as he could.
For halfpen...
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Categories:
jugged, fun, poetry, simple,
Form: Couplet
Hope Lost and Found
...I stand tall on the windy mountain side.
Look down on mankind’s world
And snort in depreciated disgust.
Let death embrace me in its jugged jaws.
I'm not afraid, just tired.
This flagella of ...
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Categories:
jugged, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
His Absence Haunts
...How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs to bare
I feel the grief, the aff...
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Categories:
jugged, death, god, grief,
Form: Villanelle
My Grief,My Love
...How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs to bare
I feel the grief, the aff...
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Categories:
jugged, africa, angst, death, grief,
Form: Villanelle
Albatross
...At the dawn of the morning light
The great albatross takes flight
After nap he had last night
Basking in moon’s mysterious light
From the jugged cliff he takes off towards abyss of an ocean
It cause...
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Categories:
jugged, bird,
Form: Rhyme