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Impulsive Sway
Triggered by tiredness and strain
Upon my wearisome, impaired brain
My guard is down the strange drain
Refrain from driving me insane

Within me is the pain of betrayal
So impulsive was my actions a while ago
Within me is the...

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Categories: afflictions, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Lyric



Apology
You spoke of Love in the kingdom to come
Where the works of hatred would be undone
you bid your disciples to follow whats true
to demonstrate its power in the actions they do
 
But I have seen...

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Categories: afflictions, abuse, betrayal, childhood, evil, love hurts, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Power: Love V Whatever
What might it take for love to conquer anger
fear
hate?

How is holistic compassion already more contagious than a-holistic self-hatred,
we-hatred?

There is more than one way to hear a**holistic here,
but they all have to do with sectarian divides,...

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Categories: afflictions, happiness, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Afflictions and Perspectives
foisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier

it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire

of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket

her eyes wide upon pupils dilated...

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Categories: afflictions, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living With a Myth
Living With A Myth

How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate 
               ...

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Categories: afflictions, society,
Form: Free verse



Kismat
Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...

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Categories: afflictions, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Hard Times
I bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His  art "Hard Times" has travelled far and wide
When at last built it's castle at Sherubtse college,
Fortuitous...

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Categories: afflictions, abuse, high school, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Love Me, Save Me
No one is willing to answer my phone calls unfortunately
Nobody cares to save me or love me deliberately
I’m sorry, this is how I tremendously feel
But, of course, obviously, it’s no big deal

Negativity wraps around my...

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Categories: afflictions, angst, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Souls Opus, I Wait Upon the Lord
I Wait Upon the Lord


With the most blessed life I can imagine even with all 
the chronic illnesses and painful hours since 
age 8 still I have known Christ to stand in battle beside me

while...

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Categories: afflictions, christian, evil, faith, good friday, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manage
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking  Glycopyrrolate 
2 MG Tablet three times daily.

Aforementioned physiological malady
the bane worse than death
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably,...

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Categories: afflictions, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Crystal Clear Mountains
Why do I look up to you, 
My chandelier of elegance?
Jealousy scorches my soul...
I'm caught in a spell of your brilliance 
Vanity is a poison in my veins, 
But I got the brains to embrace...

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Categories: afflictions, change, deep, depression, encouraging, faith, fear, hope,
Form: Lyric
Beloved
I knew I loved you    the very day we met

our God and Father showed me            a heart I’ll not forget

it doesn’t...

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Categories: afflictions, desire, devotion, introspection, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manage
I cannot single handedly – rightly so - manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking  Glycopyrrolate 
2 MG  Tablet three times daily.

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence...

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Categories: afflictions, 11th grade, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety, body,
Form: Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly Manage
I cannot single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably, and unquestionably
afflicts, impacts, and upsets
emotional (mental) health
diagnosed with schizoid...

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Categories: afflictions, angst, birth, dad, fate, grief, me, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nikita Something
This is what the spirits tell me about you: I see you have traveled far in search of answers to your many questions. You should take satisfaction in having attained an advanced state of enlightenment....

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Categories: afflictions, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Greatest Affliction
Addictions, restrictions, afflictions, decisions,
A needle, a bottle, step down hard on that throttle!
Disaster, no more laughter, destruction for years after.
Placate, eradicate, fornicate, masturbate,
Addiction.  Restriction.  Addiction.

No more art, no more heart, another false start.
No...

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Categories: afflictions, addiction, body, corruption, health, humanity, life, lost
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 3
FM
“ShallowMan, if you’ve conflictions
owing to your mind’s addictions
to subconscious maledictions,
due to doubt in old convictions;
tell me now of your afflictions.”

SM
“FactoidMan, I must confess
I understand you more or less
though subtleties provoke distress,
and even more your fine...

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Categories: afflictions, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book
The Book

How good the night that darkens so
To guide me to my rest.
Where a favored Book lights up my eyes
As I nestle to my nest.

A few pages turned to praise the Lord
Seems too little price...

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Categories: afflictions, bible, celebration, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
When Does Phenomenal Moment of Existence Occur
When does phenomenal moment of existence occur...?

Otherwise titled: Regaling eldest sibling
delineating her sixty third successful orbit
around the sun December first 2021.

About consciousness who can tell
After haploid gametes
able, eager, and ready
to yield eukaryotic (diploid) cell?

What triggers...

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Categories: afflictions, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, endurance, family,
Form: Rhyme
Calamities
Does life exist between calamities 
or does it exist between parameters
lucky or bot, sight or hearing
visible or non-existent, circumstances or inferiority
a complex we don't understand nor leaves us standing
How much longer will these afflictions persist
how...

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Categories: afflictions, pain, peace, philosophy, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Afflictions Feel Like Inflictions
I once was fast and so athletic. Bad afflictions? I had none.
Measles, mumps (the normal things). Youth was so much fun.

Then came my childbearing early 20’s. Had a girl and then a boy.
Affliction borne for...

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Categories: afflictions, body,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Unknowned Gardener
I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. Just a pauper, I was in the garden that day, but my only contribution to grace works was...

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Categories: afflictions, angst,
Form: Narrative
Godless
lot of things on my mind filled with deepness, so when you read this- I hope you let me release this- inner theory in my thesis- seems that, there’s a lot of people on the...

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Categories: afflictions, art, atheist, god,
Form: I do not know?
Turn Away From Evil
Turn away from evil…
Do what is good or what suits God well
Seek peace and pursue it prudently 
Patiently, rely on God and our hearts will not bleed with dismay
Knock on His door everyday
He will hear...

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Categories: afflictions, change, deep, encouraging, father, giving, hope, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unknown Gardener
“I’m the unknown gardener my name is mentioned in the bible, but no one need honor me. 
Just a pauper, I was in the garden that day, but my only contribution to grace works was...

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Categories: afflictions, allegoryday, inspirational, easter, clothes, day, easter,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs