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DRACONIAN STATE
DRACONIAN STATE
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CHAPTER ONE
the city breathes dust and ash~
a lung collapsing with draconian dragon’s roar,
his fiery breath painting the sky...
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Categories:
standing(a), 12th grade, hope, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Tragedy of Decay
The doors still creaked as they did before, age emanating from the very core;
The walls, ceiling, his arms and legs, even the floor, worn smooth and warped
From the years of trodden feet.
The smells bring back...
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Categories:
standing(a), bible, encouraging, gospel, heaven, hope, old,
Form:
Narrative
Raw
I ripped the curtain from the window to have a good view of what was transpiring outside, someone must have fallen from the roof top and lay dead on the road side, a little crowd...
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Categories:
standing(a), adventure, appreciation, best friend, break up, confidence,
Form:
Narrative
Trekking the Unwary
Trekking The Unwary
The beauty of this day, or is it the night
Cynical her way, Alaskans weathers her blight
The touch of her nature, the chills from her bite
Broken mobile, lost alone, this plane of...
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Categories:
standing(a), adventure, beauty, journey, travel,
Form:
Epic
The Passer-By
An unfinished afternoon lies strewn across my desk
Along with an uneaten breakfast neglected by my left
While I tap-tap-tap my fingers absent-mindedly on the table-top
As I impatiently await for the...
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Categories:
standing(a), love, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Love Will Triumph
In an era long since passed, an Oriental carpet adorning the
floor from far off lands seems to object to the
leopard skin beneath a fair maiden’s feet, yet this English lass
seems oblivious as she...
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Categories:
standing(a), conflict, family, first love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
A Turning Point
The man stumbled on, wanting to get as far away as possible
the sights he had seen and lived through too terrible to contemplate.
How could another human deliberately inflict such awful things on another.
He could see...
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Categories:
standing(a), dark, hope, war,
Form:
Epic
Mothers Time Machine
She lays you down in bed
As you start to fall asleep
She stares at your face
While you start to dream
She rubs your head
In the motion of a stream,
As you finally dose
She looks at your eyes
You are...
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Categories:
standing(a), adventure, blessing, childhood, deep, mom, mothers day,
Form:
Rhyme
They Both Desire To Rule- Nietzsche Recast In Poem
Ages there are in which the ration'l man
And th'intuitive stand side by side, the one
In fear of intuition, or scorn for abstraction;
Irrational one, the other inartistic.
They both desire to rule over...
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Categories:
standing(a), emotions, inspiration, judgement, life, philosophy, poetry, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
The Man That He Once Was, Part Iii
...With that he kicked his horse in the flanks
and charged towards Thompson and the men,
not expecting it, two of them went down
before they realized he was no longer Friend.
Now it was just Thompson and Stomping...
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Categories:
standing(a), anger, character, faith, hurt, loss, sad, self,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Of the Coming Fire
the skelton of the watch
a vigil for the passing dead
things left unfed
wraiths wander on
watching wanting waiting
guiding the blind in to the light
the instruments of time to mark mortality
counting the seconds, minutes, hours...
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Categories:
standing(a), age, allegory, allusion, analogy, art, corruption, dark,
Form:
Free verse
I Awake To Darkness (Part 6)
I awake to the spirits saying that I’m foolish for what I’ve done
I look up and falling from the sky is my great grandfather’s gun
They tell me to pick it up and end both of...
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Categories:
standing(a), adventure, visionarygirl, girl, me,
Form:
Epic
The Unspoken Fib
Last Sunday I spoke to my best friend ,
after many years I felt as if I didn’t know her at all.
She was bragging about her pretentious innocence and compassion while telling me how she celebrated...
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Categories:
standing(a), abuse, deep, grief, how i feel, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
The Beginning of Christmas
I was sitting Thanksgiving day, with my belly overlapping
Cousin Dave was watching football, while Grandpa was a napping.
The kids were outside playing, trying to be good
Uncle Pete was moaning to himself, "Why did I eat...
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Categories:
standing(a), christian, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Those Prostitutes Will Finally Make You Destitute
There was a cheap bar in New York's skid row
Almost, you were shining there like a rain bow.
People were dancing and sleeping together
Although they know it can't be lasted for ever.
It was you who...
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Categories:
standing(a), addiction, allusion, america, blue, crazy, deep, destiny,
Form:
Lyric
A Few Steps From His Dug Up Grave
The undulating pine trees
try not to weep as they really should;
they hold the tiny, slowly falling raindrops,
sensing the mortality that turns him cold
without a sob, without tears,
and standing a few steps
from his dug up grave:
he...
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Categories:
standing(a), anxiety, death, fear, grave, rain, senses, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Bound
…on an Amtrak train.
Business-class from DC to Trenton.
It's the work rush.
There is a white man.
Dark eyes.
Gray temples…
Southern.
Loud.
Acting important. Unimportant.
Let's call him John.
...5 rows...
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Categories:
standing(a), adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing Dreams
Chasing The American Dream Part 2
When one is young and restless, seeking success and satisfaction for the future..
Some have burning drive to transverse land and oceans to achieve their hearts' desires ..
From Bolehland to the...
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Categories:
standing(a), america, celebration, change, character, community, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
Vacation, Destination Majorca
Looking forward to the holiday of a lifetime,
Destination never before ever undertaken,
A very scary journey for me, I can only imagine being,
As a first time traveler across the world,
From my cold homeland of England,
To...
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Categories:
standing(a), poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Funhouse Mirror's Truth
The Funhouse Mirror's Truth
The air was sweet with cotton candy, bright and pink,
a whirlwind of laughter before I could even think.
My little brother's eyes were wide with pure delight,
My twin sister's hand was wrapped...
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Categories:
standing(a), candy, childhood, family,
Form:
Narrative
Journey By Rail
Written: August 29, 2023
Voice Poetry Contest ...
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Categories:
standing(a), appreciation, beauty, meaningful, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is It To Be a Tree
What is it to be a Tree?
Do trees ever mind being so close ...so intertwined ?
Do they ever long for space as I do?
Do they prefer to be so meshed…branches touching branches
all the...
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Categories:
standing(a), beauty, love, metaphor, philosophy, relationship, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth
Next to you there's a girl
Sitting way too close but with some kind of distance between you
That only I can see
Your half-hearted smile seems aware of
How ironic this scene is
And her hand on her knees...
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Categories:
standing(a), betrayal, conflict, girl, hurt, irony, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Joan of Arc Memorials
I used to live in France, near the Champagne region.
My favorite Notre Dame cathedral is not the one in Paris;
Rather it is Notre Dame de Rheims.
After many battles, Jeanne D'Arc helped the Dauphin Charles
Be crowned...
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Categories:
standing(a), christian, hero, history, inspiration, patriotic, , memorial,
Form:
Prose Poetry
She's Standing High Praising In a Firm Hallelujah
Something about her heart, beating;
Something in her soul, intriguing;
The God in her, in her is God;
I standing a firm foundation
Hallelujah
Something in her smile Jesus;
Her voice so wonderful Jesus;
She walks with head held high;
Praising the All...
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Categories:
standing(a), analogy, blessing, faith, for her, how i
Form:
Light Verse