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The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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Categories:
desperate, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Hotel CaretakerHow unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
desperate, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
WithinWithin
Play Slipknot’s ‘Snuff’ song four times and use these lyrics:
(Do not use the official video clip. It has more than just the song.)
I still feel your pain within my skin…
Ripping out my heart again,
So I...
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Categories:
desperate, friend, heartbroken, lost love, love,
Form:
Lyric
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
desperate, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
desperate, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
The massive convoy of threatsBegins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break
hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled
this has cause severe discrimination and victimization...
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Categories:
desperate, anxiety, depression, discrimination, health, husband, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
MEMORY THERAPY-You Have Entered the Twilight Zone Poetry Contest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick Tipton lived a quiet life,
west Kentucky, in rolling hills;
been farming there for ten years,
all according to his own will.
This simple life would’ve have kept on,
‘til one night, age thirty-three,
a nightmare burst into his mind,
so...
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Categories:
desperate, memory, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
desperate, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
desperate, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
4 More Poems About Poetry - BWho hasn't this nightmare of forgetting an inspirational word or phrase happened to?
...
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Categories:
desperate, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
desperate, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
desperate, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
desperate, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Pray For the Lost - the Linked Style~ Pray for the Lost ~
( The Linked Style )
~O~
Pray for the lost
P
Lost in this World
R
World Needs...
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Categories:
desperate, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
desperate, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
desperate, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
desperate, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
desperate, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Broken PrideThe summer is over but things are getting hotter
The summer is over and people are getting viler
The sky is overcast and the birds are flying around
It feels like a stranger has just entered the town.
Grey...
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Categories:
desperate, appreciation, beautiful, break up, bullying, education, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Child of the KingI wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...
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Categories:
desperate, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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Categories:
desperate, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
Quest of the Heart: Chapter TwoBrave Shadow Mane
Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste
Now this was indeed...
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Categories:
desperate, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
desperate, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
desperate, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...
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Categories:
desperate, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets