Betrayal guilty as charged
...Betrayal (guilty as charged)...
within mine marriage,
and all the ramifications
that happen therefrom
courtesy the social media platform
of Facebook Messenger,
wherein those subscribing
to a...
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Categories:
likenesses, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned
...You sighed...
... but none heard.
You were angry,
Met only with stares from innocent minds.
... Then you cried
In the mystique of the night,
Muffled sobs escaping to the horizon. ...
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Categories:
likenesses, anger, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Crossroads
...
Crossroads to where life began
Fear of dark cold round me again
In the twilight before the morn
Scattered grass iced, forlorn
Silence in the air ash orangy dawn
Fire burnt out like clouds in...
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Categories:
likenesses, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Shades of Love and Character
...
Character matters addressed by the Kings,
By attitude adjustment - repentance of sin,
From heaven and earth with prayers for the dream:
Love is the standard, not the color of skin....
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Categories:
likenesses, america, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Cruel and Friendly Cloud Dilemma
...Forms most enormous seen from our earth,
Dwarf the tallest, the grandest of mountains’ girth.
Magnificent spectacles rounded up in the sky:
Sculptured foam, floating frothy, towering high.
Blac...
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Categories:
likenesses, beautiful, conflict, environment, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
A Mirror Up From the Earth World
...A mirror up from the Earth world
Was brought, and placed before God.
"My billion and one likenesses!"
Angels with grimed hands just nod....
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Categories:
likenesses, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Four
...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA 2007 AD / 1427 AH
The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at a port where the routes of the ferries,
the whitecaps ...
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Categories:
likenesses, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Likenesses
...This body that I am now forced to own
once was a glove for desiring hands, and
a hand for the warm fitting-rooms of strangers.
I am an owner of derelict houses.
their roofs and walls unrecogniz...
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Categories:
likenesses, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sacred Earth Undone
...Earth feels undone.
Not only incomplete,
but now unraveling,
Undead
but not resurrecting,
not fully alive,
not healthy enough
to listen for sacred survive
whispers, ReWind
ReGenerate
ReCo...
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Categories:
likenesses, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Concussion Therapy
...the free state is actually not free
casting my line into the many manipulations
worked by dust devils and hierophants
gambling their grunt wages on my young ass
like cowboys on a cattle free vaca...
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Categories:
likenesses, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Still Life With Flowers
...It is an unseasonable March day.
My kitchen blinds are drawn against morning sun,
their slender slats like new skin protecting the body's vital organs;
eyelids before this rose-covered tablecloth ...
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Categories:
likenesses, fantasy, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Wood Carver
...I am a wood carver by instinct and intuition;
I am not a wood carver by trade or profession.
I carve the likenesses of things into something whole,
Into the shapeless wood, I carve the essence of ...
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Categories:
likenesses, life, work,
Form: Verse
Tozzath
...Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombada...
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Categories:
likenesses, death, fantasy, girl, magic,
Form: Free verse
People
...The World in its most esteemed value is nothing without people,
A Nation is as great as its people,
A City is recognized by others for its people,
A Community is only the people of families which ...
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Categories:
likenesses, best friend, child, cousin,
Form: Free verse
A Rift Was Torn
...A rift was torn throughout what was once a perfect sky, the souls of many waiting to be born... beings of light.
A different being of the Lord's could not stop his internal fool's chatter inside his ...
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Categories:
likenesses, christian, universe,
Form: Free verse
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