The Mirage of Promise
...The well is dry, but their tongues still plead,
Cracked lips shaping prayers the gods will not heed.
The land rots in surplus, a kingdom of waste,
Where hunger is measured and profit is praised.
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Categories:
liquefies, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
States of the Soul
...I boil my feeling for you
Freezes my suffering for you
Thus liquefies my illusion...
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Categories:
liquefies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, feelings,
Form: Light Verse
A Pink and Blue Sky
...Dawn pierces the dark at first light
as flocks of mourning doves take flight.
And though sullied skies seem so stark:
at first light, Dawn pierces the dark.
Sol liquefies like molten go...
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Categories:
liquefies, beautiful, color, day, image,
Form: Quatrain
History's Greatest Miracle Play
...History’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to spe...
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Categories:
liquefies, jesus,
Form: Narrative
A Poet's Heart And Soul
...In the sheltered shadows of dreams:
boundaries and limitations are nonexistent.
Imagination liquefies the ebony of space,
as sleeping spirits swim amongst the stars.
And immersed in a sea...
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Categories:
liquefies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Damage
...I tell you that love happened first,
In order
In that order— which is to be opened,
Flayed the heart that at first flinched
When the soul would blench at the sound of your voice
That once was ...
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Categories:
liquefies, abuse, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Second Advent
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The wicked souls like gasoline light up
Afire without remorse sorrow and heat
As if Hiroshima Nagasaki
In bright atomic pillars of fire burn
Unquenched like a mad lunatic bonfire
The judg...
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Categories:
liquefies, bible, future, imagery, jesus,
Form: Blank verse
Open Letter
...To my future lover,
Why me? I feel that I don't deserve you, that there are way more attractive, smart, and funny individuals out there--fit to match the mold of your heart. I can't even act prop...
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Categories:
liquefies, desire, destiny, dream, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Eternal Love
...I have been knowing you for a brief timeframe,
Yet, I believe I will recollect you for eternity.
As your delicate touch,
Makes me shudder with satisfaction.
I can feel your hand taking mine, ...
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Categories:
liquefies, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Taste and See How Good the Lord Is
...Struggles ebb and flow like the ocean tides.
They wane and wax like the glorious moon;
Deliberately devours the psyche, if allowed
There is truth to be known, worth more than gold…
We are not Master...
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Categories:
liquefies, faith, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Heavenly Love
...Heart of stone has turned to light,
as I crave that touch when I wake from night.
Visions alone make me quiver,
but the flesh on flesh surely deliver.
Consuming his breath as my own,
liquefies w...
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Categories:
liquefies, lovelove,
Form: Romanticism
So Much For Chores
...The kitchen radio rumbles heavy drumbeat,
outside, rain pecks out its staccato
on the porch.
Stirring fragrant coffee,
I ponder doing dishes, starting laundry,
pause to glance at him.
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Categories:
liquefies, family
Form: I do not know?
Mr. Meticulous
...Using drill-sergeant precision,
the tank rolls through the lab
brimming spastic with drive
expedient to mine approval,
displaying can-do gusto
capable of fawning
up the ladder.
Beneath the h...
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Categories:
liquefies, science
Form: Free verse