In a Heartbroken State
..."We can choose either to remain heartbroken all the time or with resilience, come back to cheer, as true happiness primarily stems from inside and not through external factors alone. Our happiness is...
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Categories:
lacerations, angst, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Blood Stained and Bleeding World
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What's happened to world serenity?
It been trampled on and has run amuck,
burned and wounded, ravaged by hate
while people look on as though they're dumbstruck.
The world has lost its identity...
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Categories:
lacerations, conflict, death, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Vacay
...I have so many tongue lacerations
Because I bite it on the daily
My voice is on vacation
And my anger is on a yacht sailing
My temper is sun tanning
All while it's heart is failing
My resen...
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Categories:
lacerations, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
The World's Wounds
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I have moved on all the continents
Continents, heaven and hell to experience
Experience of happiness and sadness
Sadness of all colors because of leaders’ carelessness
Carelessness breeds ...
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Categories:
lacerations, abuse, anger, world,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Shrapnel
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There are some people in this world
who either do not realize or do not care
how badly words wound.
Even slight agitation can cause them
to bellow their bullying obscenities.
Like lead balls f...
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Categories:
lacerations, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Silently Sweeping Thoughts
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I stay situated
upon an antique
dusty leather chair
as the scent
of incense invokes snippets
of half-written pages
from my past...
thunder gently rolls
in fro...
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Categories:
lacerations, dark, death, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Reverse Psychology
...The reflection in the water of the woman
Was not pleasing; even to herself she looked
Hard.
Frown marks were etched deep; two lacerations
Between her black unruly brows.
Thin lips clamped toge...
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Categories:
lacerations, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
...I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
Despite the temperature being five below...
these fingered handy limbs
awash with profuse sweat
dripping palms analogous
to a bloody busted gushing wat...
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Categories:
lacerations, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Crow Fights The Raven
...Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon,
the library,
a mausoleum of forgotten epochs,
loomed ominously.
Its silhouette,
birth...
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Categories:
lacerations, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Coagulate
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Finally my blood began to coagulate,
surrendering to wounds from constant battles.
I was fading in shades of an Autumn leaf,
crumbling to seasonal trials,
yet, searching for a remedy
to preven...
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Categories:
lacerations, angst, strength,
Form: Free verse
Blood Bath
...Finally my blood began to coagulate
a graceful gel, gently thickened,
so – whatever I might feel, the settling of the wound,
has begun…
in sensitive silences, the shadows echo the fear,
felt b...
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Categories:
lacerations, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Forgive My Silence
...Dear December, Forgive my silence,
I’m still bleeding from
the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes
from our confrontations.
So much was
lost in translation,
thoug...
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Categories:
lacerations, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Soar Up To The Sky
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Written: December 13, 2023
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If the ocean's water
were used as writing ink for pens
to write down our words of praise
the oce...
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Categories:
lacerations, appreciation, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse
Stars of Clarity
...Echoes of your diffusive elegies, in the core of your rare piercing beautiful soul, recollections of somber yesteryears, sprouting deep lacerations and stigmatized unseen wounds, blackened in your go...
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Categories:
lacerations, deep, emotions, for her,
Form: Free verse
Shadows
...Shadows 9-22-23
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Shadows
Living in ethereal shadows of compassion,
In profiles of grace,
Mercy overshadows stumbling stones
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Categories:
lacerations, forgiveness, inspiration, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse
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