Lits Poems

The Eternal Ember

...The Eternal Ember

Decades are passed, an embrew slices Earth's chest
And countless Energy invests
It blooms 
Bamboozles doom:
Decades past
In search of and at last 
Pause and steadfast like ...
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Categories: lits, appreciation, blessing, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHappy Man

...Sometimes I find myself inside
A mind of happy man
Who does everything all right
Much better than I can
He has a house by the sea
Breathing coastline air
There he sits, with book and tea
In hi...
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Categories: lits, england, happy, home,
Form: Rhyme


Shatter

...
Shatter me
 The aching, hollow pain that carves out the very essence of my heart burns through my veins, filling this fleshy vessel of mine
 A mystery that is as obvious as the crimson of raw blo...
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Categories: lits, angst, emotions, lonely, sad
Form: Free verse

To Be Followed 4

...In open schools,
On the laziness of orange trees,
On the beds of straw,
I’m looking for it,

In the naked mills,
On the guest books,
On the square roofs,
I’m looking for it,

Under the shee...
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Categories: lits, appreciation, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality

...Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality

Countdown to homelessness – 
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register 
pyrrhic victory won.

10…...
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Categories: lits, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme


Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux

...Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux

Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal 
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly 
ricocheting axon to neuron
induci...
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Categories: lits, absence, allah, angel, atheist,
Form: Rhyme

Some Low Days

... On the days I feel low,
I just gaze sky.
On the days I feel like not doing anything,
I just lie stay.
On the days I feel like giving up,
Sun lits them up.
On the days when everything i...
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Categories: lits, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Startling Vision

...This startling vision,
has happiness inscribed 
on the thread of its destiny.

with dimensions so noble,
its piercing cries,sets the
soul aflame with burning desire.

in our isle of solitude,...
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Categories: lits, africa, art, beautiful, desire,
Form: Free verse

Ericka

...ERICKA

Acrostic

E...nergetic, enthusiastic, lovely and humble
      Hallmarks of beauty and distinction 
      Of a woman worthy of admiration  
      The fulfillment of " his"  dreams and a...
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Categories: lits, appreciation, beauty, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberBurning Desires

...With all of our desires, 
Why does our relationship seem? 
So, in and out, in and out, 
A wash basin kind of love, 
Sam Smith title, Fire on fire 
Will burn out like Lits candles 
I am deprived...
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Categories: lits, anger, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Loving You

...LOVING YOU

The passionate feeling
Melting like a candle
The unknown desire

The warmth of your inmost
Envy of single women
How can I describe you?

Your smile is infectious
It lits up a t...
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Categories: lits, cute love, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

Flowing River

...I’m not a sun
who shines for you

I’m not a moon
who lits away your darkness

I’m not a star
brighten your sky

I’m not a flower
which smells beauty

I’m a river
a river full of love
An...
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Categories: lits, fantasy, happiness, heart, humanity,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberFr - Ascension Collaboration

...Ascension

Sous une brume matinale
je vagabonde les rivages
des souvenirs
à la recherche du passé
dans les lits de rivières desséchées
vestiges de jours écoulés.

La vie nous dirige
vers pl...
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Categories: lits, heaven, light, longing, lost
Form: Free verse

Haggard Hemispheres Hankering

...dusty drips drooling
inky lits lurching
felon fits fostering
callous contractions cupping
Haggard how hankering
oily oceans assembling

nocturnal nature nimbling
fiery feelings seducing
airy...
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Categories: lits, dark,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberAunt Rita

...Aunt Rita



My darling aunt words can not express
how much I loved you, the sun is gone
the moon no longer lits my world.
All life has paled without you in it.

I remember a fiesty lady ful...
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Categories: lits, death, death of a
Form: Epitaph

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