Though an atheist
...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation
After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories:
lifelessly, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
There should be a place to shelter us when sleep is a bird that no longer comes
...There should be a place to shelter us when sleep is a bird that no longer comes,
or when we are tired of getting drunk on our own thoughts, and the grass no longer lifts dreams,
I don't mean powder...
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Categories:
lifelessly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Purpose?
...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.— and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—
to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...
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Categories:
lifelessly, art, creation, devotion, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Babylon Hath Fallen
...Greed left a trail of crumbs for you to follow
Don't ask why you can't put your hands on me
I am the deepest, darkest part of the ocean floor
That we've established is too dangerous to explore
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Categories:
lifelessly, how i feel, irony,
Form: Free verse
Fields of Blazing Stars
...By your ink on this parchment, my thoughts tattooed
I'm drawn to this bouquet; I am left so madly.
Fields of blazing stars, lying randomly, strewed
Happiest are these thoughts deliberately const...
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Categories:
lifelessly, flower, happiness, nature, seasons,
Form: Villanelle
I Chose No Other Option
...I chose no other option,
But to make it all undone.
To give up on my effort,
Which I had put with all my heart.
I chose no other option,
But to shatter my dreams.
Life could become a magical ...
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Categories:
lifelessly, anxiety, confusion, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
The Part of Me I Didn'T Know
...Blood dropped to the floor
With a knife on my hand
I stood there lifelessly
The sweet pain, I feel
Drowned into my skin
Soothing me in a way I don't know
I thought of nothing else
Just watc...
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Categories:
lifelessly, hurt, self,
Form: Free verse
The Part of Me I Didn'T Know
...Blood dropped to the floor
With a knife on my hand
I stood there lifelessly
The sweet pain, I feel
Drowned into my skin
Soothing me in a way I don't know
I thought of nothing else
Just watc...
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Categories:
lifelessly, hurt, self,
Form: Free verse
Breaking News- Rip Aka
...Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another person believed to be AKA's bodyguard, was al...
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Categories:
lifelessly, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Mollified Man
...The meekly
mollified man
subtly sews
his silently
simplistic sights
upon reality’s
rickety rufescent light .
Always left
lifelessly looming
beneath the brain’s
bashfully blurred
background...
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Categories:
lifelessly, conflict, fear, motivation, voice,
Form: Alliteration
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
...An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
an...
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Categories:
lifelessly, 6th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Substantiated
...Am no longer hollow
Look through my mind, silently listen to my thoughts
Do they still whisper pessimism?
Knock at my grit, does it resound with resilience
Do you feel ambers of penultimate ambie...
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Categories:
lifelessly, cheer up, success,
Form: Free verse
A Language Without Words
...I.
they say
there exist languages without words
without syllables yet pronounced,
like the sharp clatter of fork and spoon and knife against each other
at dinners in our family.
a vase shatte...
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Categories:
lifelessly, family, grandmother, how i
Form: Free verse
The Curious Passing of Li Po
...Two figurines fell out of the sky
Dropped from a crop duster plane passing by.
The pilot yelled, "Look out down below!",
But no one could hear, he was flying so low.
The dolls struck Li Po who wa...
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Categories:
lifelessly, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Pyre of Love
...Dark night, gloomy clouds
Fears of life-controlling the glow of my face, loud and proud,
I pinch my eyes with each drop of rain,
Touching my face,
like pearls falling on the floor,
Tender and ha...
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Categories:
lifelessly, appreciation, birth, faith, humanity,
Form: Free verse
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