Long Wide awake Poems
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Classified Part Four
I was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
wide awake, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
The number that died
I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe...
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Categories:
wide awake, anger, depression, emotions, for teens, gothic, hate,
Form:
Free verse
AI Really Wants to Rule the World etc
O AI really thinks it's high time
For it to be able to dominate our minds,
Monopolize our brains all of the time
All 'cause AI really wants to rule the world
O AI really thinks it's time, humans...
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Categories:
wide awake, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Other
Urdu Translations
Last Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
wide awake, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
Dream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
wide awake, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
2020
At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
wide awake, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
wide awake, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Our journey thus far
1 Intent
Assigning no meaning to grace imbibed,
we watch how we are breath by breath transformed,
drenched in bliss mists that cannot be described,
trouncing ego, last bastions of mind stormed.
With God-search the aim, our journey began,
brought about...
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Categories:
wide awake, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Believe It Or What
He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, I...
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Categories:
wide awake, god, , atheist,
Form:
Prose
Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters
This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection
Haters in my life
only lead to introspection
Understand
I’m still the man
Who are you to question
I agree to disagree
With all your...
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Categories:
wide awake, art, hip hop, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
The Longest Song I'Ve Ever Written Ch-2
This foolish heart thinks everyone is perfect but I
But I am perfect in His eye…in His eye…
I recall the reason why others fall in love
But, hate, enough! I said enough!
Chorus: I need you and I...
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Categories:
wide awake, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Club
For years I was an aspiring singer, performing in trendy nightspots,
And I sang my heart out each evening, in all of the local hotspots.
Among the enthusiastic locals, at long last I'd made myself a name,
As...
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Categories:
wide awake, bird, career, fantasy, nature, night, rose, song,
Form:
Couplet
No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day
No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day...,
not one drop of sweat
(especially on hot humid and hazy days)
less than a gallon
exudes forth from my pores
but nevertheless
I...
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Categories:
wide awake, 12th grade, angst, endurance, fate, humorous, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Feels Like Another Sleepless Night
Verse 1:
I should've been careful what I wished for
I know there's bound to be another open door
Of many opportunities
That could replace my nightmarish memories
Not everything is black and white, you see?
I wake up...
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Categories:
wide awake, angst, deep, desire, hope, lost love, passion,
Form:
Lyric
Chapter 53 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Iv
10:30 at night everything was
peaceful in the Damian Hakim
household. Children were
Safely in there dreams. But the
Seven were wide eyed and
Would soon begin to let the
Parents know they were needed.
The racket began. Damian...
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Categories:
wide awake, best friend, confidence, corruption, creation, youth,
Form:
Alliteration
Beware the Man In the Mask
The mask, with eyes brighter than the most brilliant star,
Reflecting the sunshine & blue Ocean beyond, his eyes twinkle
He smiles, I am dazzled, hypnotised...almost
Powerless I am drawn to him, he is the...
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Categories:
wide awake, abuse, boyfriend, break up, hurt, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ice Cream Gran 9 - Grans Hawaiian Adventure
Who snored the loudest was open to question
But each would deny such an insane suggestion
The phone rang just once and she opened one eye
‘Up you get, Nitro, we gotta fly.’
Nitro Cat yawned and he leapt...
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Categories:
wide awake, cat, grandmother, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Terrible Terrestrial Side
I have a way with words
They may hurt with a sting or they may be badly injuring…this time forth and forevermore…
My mind wanders in a hundred herds
I’m too late…I’m too lost…I’m running outta time…Kingdom...
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Categories:
wide awake, anxiety, deep, depression, love hurts, poetry, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Double Setup
Double Set Up
The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
I had found it in the shower.
Two other major surgeries I've already had that very year.
I was thirty three.
A mammogram back then...
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Categories:
wide awake, cancer, health, woman,
Form:
Free verse
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:
wide awake, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
wide awake, 11th grade, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety, body,
Form:
Free verse
Waiting On the Lord
Beat model, the truth
I just defeated a temptation see
Deal was soo good but then I thot o revelation
Fought it to the ground like a superpower nation
Stillitroselikeaboxerthrowingthrowingpunchesinmydirection
My goodness
And Jehova’s my witness
It is hard be-in a righteous...
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Categories:
wide awake, christian, life, god, me, heart, faith, god,
Form:
Light Verse
An Early Morning Walk On the Beach
I awoke after hearing a noise on the roof of the cottage, it sounded like a couple of seagulls, probably fighting over a piece of bread.
I was wide awake now and looked over at the...
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Categories:
wide awake, beach, holiday, inspirational, ocean, people, sea, stars,
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:
wide awake, angst, birth, dad, fate, grief, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Traveling Death Salesman
I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....
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Categories:
wide awake, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse