The elegance of privilege
...Privilege is elegant
Graceful, as it glides like a breeze
Unnoticed by those who catches its attention
Noticed by those who live in the shadow
Although it's voice not loud
It's presence dema...
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Categories:
leans, discrimination, power, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
A Philosopher’s Grief
...We sit together in the shadowed halls beyond time—
Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Protagoras,
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas—
our words once rivers,
now dust in the mouths of men.
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Categories:
leans, allegory, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Speculation
...Close together, we chat.
Relatives, cousins - our mothers: the twins.
In the wind, ghosts;
we speculate.
We wonder while we
chitchat and munch.
Distant memories
of practical jokes, tokes...
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Categories:
leans, cousin, death,
Form: Free verse
I Am The Blueprint of My Own Quiet Ruin
...The door swells in its frame each winter,
paint curling like old tongues —
still you press it open with a finger,
leaving soft dents in the wood.
Inside, the walls hum from hidden wires;
plast...
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Categories:
leans, emotions, extended metaphor, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Moonlit Cane Tango
...Under a silver grin of moon, he shuffles past the tide,
His cane clicks like Morse code—C-A-N-E, not C-A-N-T—in stride.
Salt air tames his hair around the balding head, still stubbornly spry,
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Categories:
leans, beach,
Form: Rhyme
I Will Be With You Soon
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The twilight drifts like a silver swan,
And soft winds hush the weary day.
I linger where the shadows run,
Dreaming of you though far away.
The river hums its lullaby,
A whisper through the ...
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Categories:
leans, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Torn by the Sky
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It was sunny the day our hearts broke away.
A decade has passed—but some wounds ignore clocks.
The news bloomed like bruises on a nation’s chest.
Shoreham stood still.
Time forgot how to move...
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Categories:
leans, faith, farewell,
Form: Free verse
A Carnival Night of First Love
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On a warm summer evening
we are pinned together on the octopus ride,
twirling with excited pleasure.
Even the breeze we swirl through
cannot cool us down,
for the passion of new lo...
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Categories:
leans, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Lightness Of Peace
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Bright is the dew that embraces my earth
As seasons breathe with a lingering sigh;
Oaks in teal ripple and glimmer in peace
With hymns of ' thank you' I can't defy.
In this free motion,...
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Categories:
leans, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Peace Made with a Tale
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I can't escape hearing the voices.
Even when, I myself, am utterly alone,
Even when the plea for peace,
is threadbare, shredded into tatters
of shrugged-off 'don't matters'.
The child I onc...
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Categories:
leans, angst, anxiety, peace,
Form: Free verse
Peace of mind
...I need not build a mansion
to find my peace of mind.
I need no fleet of luxury cars
for calm to dwell inside.
All I need is a whisper —
a gentle breeze
blown beneath a clear, untroubl...
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Categories:
leans, cool, extended metaphor, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
she likes herself now
...she has a rainbow disposition
personality of a confident woman
her ideas are eclectic and electric
she likes herself now
alone but not lonely
reflecting and reflective
brilliant mind, sharp t...
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Categories:
leans, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Classroom Speaks
...The walls lean in, murmuring secrets of weary days,
while chairs sigh beneath tired bodies.
Words from hollow lips strike like stones—
they refuse to soften, echoing in empty corners.
My lesson...
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Categories:
leans, education, emotions, silence, teacher,
Form: Personification
A Cowgirl Momma, Carved by Faith
...The nights get cold on that prairie land,
But she don’t break—she takes God’s hand.
With a baby girl tucked close at night,
She leans on faith when there’s no end in sight.
She’s patched old je...
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Categories:
leans, beauty, blessing, daughter, faith,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Where the Sky Breaks
...Atop the edge where silence leans,
A figure stands — the dusk between.
No name, no face the canvas shows,
Just wind that hums what no one knows.
The sky explodes in molten fire,
A final gasp o...
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Categories:
leans, art, beauty, blessing, celebration,
Form: Lyric
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