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After All Is Said and Done
I wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry 
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...

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Categories: defeated, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form: Lyric



Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential 
commodities sabotaged 
at the altar of...

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Categories: defeated, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 88 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Solomon Brothers: the Billards Blowout
Early afternoon. The Solomon 
Were in their, (according to Damali)
Club house. But the reality of the
Circumstance is this. The Club 
House was the Damian Domaine.
Damian's Billards. Damian didn't 
Know it was their chosen hangout.
As the...

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Categories: defeated, africa, allusion, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.



Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by...

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Categories: defeated, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...

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Categories: defeated, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse



Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...

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Categories: defeated, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
Johnny the Fable Sapling
Evening came and the Harvest Moon was about to rise,
little did Johnny know this night would bring him a surprise…

Johnny lived in a mushroom village with many folks just like him. He carried an over...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeated, children, silly,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...

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Categories: defeated, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift

( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)

For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...

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Categories: defeated, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeated, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...

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Categories: defeated, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland

In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...

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Categories: defeated, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Give Me a Second To Breathe Part 2
Pre-chorus: Give me a second to breathe...feeling this tension, this hesitation 
Give me a second to breathe...feeling this tension, this hesitation 
Give me a second to breathe and feel a pleasant sensation
Drench me with your...

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Categories: defeated, betrayal, depression, faith, hope, loneliness, missing you,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 87
“I don't know anything about that.  I just do what I must.”
Bréagán's smile was sad but understanding.  He knew what it was like to be pushed to do what seemed impossible.  He...

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Categories: defeated, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Resistance On the Iberian Peninsula
Resistance On The Iberian Peninsula

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.

The Grande...

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Categories: defeated, education, freedom, history, irony, patriotic, war,
Form: Verse
Cash
I feel much like trash
When I’m not earning cash
Can’t you see I’m working hard, Lord?
According to Your will, according to Your accord
I feel like I’m worthless
When I’m unable to clean up my mess
Can’t you see...

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Categories: defeated, angst, deep, fear, heartbroken, loneliness, longing, sorrow,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...

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Categories: defeated, horse,
Form: Narrative
Misconception of Misery
It only started as a misconception, a misunderstanding
then like grass fed rain, it grew...grew into this
A eulogy, maybe this could be it
about you? For once, this is about me
How can it be...how can it be?
Dreaming,...

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Categories: defeated, how i feel, , 8th grade, ,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1
Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...

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Categories: defeated, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My Recovery
TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting, 
Finally a nurse...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defeated, addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Journey Through Time Final Part Revised
Now as the years passed by everyone became so tired
the heaps of things scattered around became too much to bear
some benevolence was certainly grand but this was too much
the two felt unable to undertake ...

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Categories: defeated, journey, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Epic
Accumulating Anger: When the Clock Chimed 9
I took a long, thought-provoking walk
I jumped off the car, never knowing why
I looked out the window and began to talk
Accumulating anger got the best of me - I can't deny

I saw her kiss a...

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Categories: defeated, angst, conflict, emotions, friend, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...

No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...

Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...

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Categories: defeated, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form: Political Verse
The Spirits of Culloden
The Spirits of Culloden. 
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...

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Categories: defeated, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Double Cross My Heart
Selena...Sarah the Sorceress
Russell...the Ghost of Never-land
This year has not been mine
Death laughs at me as he steals my grandfather from me
while I plead emptily for him to take me instead
yet I fail to realize I'm...

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Categories: defeated, blue, deep, depression, how i feel, lonely,
Form: Bio

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