my inner echoes from the past, lyricsProbably occurred about mid semester in 2018
Epic perhaps, there was a missed opportunity?
From a challenge contest to pen another poem
But this is stuff that men say in an asylum
At the time my ideas were a jumble of mess
Could this be part of a hero's quest?
The state governor jerry was speaking on campus
An acquaintance...
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Categories:
irony, jesus, memory, nursery
Form: Lyric
A Father Seed O' Lord Water MeA Father Seed ( O' Lord Water Me)
I am a Seedling oh! Lord water me;
You planted me in a vessel;
I'm yours, your energy;
O' Lord water me;
And I'm in the the desert heat;
O' Lord water me;
Love made me
Grace saved me
Father planted me
I am graced and loved
A chosen pick seed
Atop this heated earth
My flesh is not...
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Categories:
adventure, confidence, devotion, god,
Form: Lyric
Army 250th Birthday, A Time
A time,
that we celebrate two hundred fifty years
A time,
filled, with sweat, shed blood, and tears.
A time,
when many answered their country’s call.
A time,
when many, were required to give their all
A time,
when many were called to fight in foreign wars
A time,
for beach landings on some far away shores
A time,
that I see “an arouse my memory” parade
A time,
for...
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Categories:
america, appreciation, death, soldier,
Form: Lyric
Poetry Prefect
Soliloquy Colloquial
When I saw this contest
I knew I had it beat
Speaking plain and simple
is really kinda sweet
Like stealing candy, from a baby
It will be a piece of cake
They won't know, just what hit them
When I leave them in my wake
But I'm sure they'll rack their brains
And put their ducks all in a row
Hold their cards...
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Categories:
humorous, writing,
Form: Lyric
MysteryWe heard the gate slam behind us
And felt the cold shame of tears upon our faces
Orphans of Eden, wandr’ing homeless,
A broken promise bitter upon our lips
Banished from your face to walk in the dust
Holding your promise so close to us,
Emmanuel! God with us.
Savior! Anointed one
Emmanuel! God with us!
Savior! Jesus!
Loneliness haunts us, a shadow,
Dreams of...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Lyric
Bye Bye BondBy what I've been reading Bond is a thing of the past. So I had to write a song about it,
You think you have everything going your way
You lived through danger and called it a day
You think you can put down that licence to kill
But I know you never will
You think you'd be happy down...
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Categories:
in memoriam, moving on,
Form: Lyric
Complicated girlCOMPLICATED GIRL
I woke up to the sound of water,
splashing on the floor...
I wonder what's got into her now
I jumped up as quickly as I could,
leaping from the bed...
Hoping that she's still here somehow
Bridge
What's my life becoming,
Where'd it all go wrong,
Isn't it a grand illusion anyway?
Chorus
So I will try to understand,
she's a...
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Categories:
heart, longing, mental illness,
Form: Lyric
Women are like Wild HoneyThey start thick—
not the polite kind you stir into tea
not the mild drizzle on breakfast toast
but the kind that runs hot
slow
dangerous
coating your tongue before you grasp
the price of its pleasure.
They start golden—
dripping off the comb
sun pressed into their marrow
too rich, too syrupy—
gumming up the gears of your schemes
too...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fire, freedom,
Form: Lyric
You’re not THAT good, yes it's trueSome use AI yes they do
But won’t admit that it’s true
I’ve seen AI much too much
It’s got that robotic touch
As long as other folk strive
We’ll keep REAL poems alive
It’s just too good to be you
You use AI yes you do
I read each line and I stare
As I am all too aware
It is just computer speak
The...
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Categories:
poetry, slam, technology,
Form: Lyric
The BeatitudeYour pretty eyes,
I realize;
You’re beautiful to me:
An ebony, most heavenly,
Arrayed coquettishly;
You’re giving and a gift,
Like the rise of Christmas morn’
As adorned a necklace with,
Upon my heart you’re worn –...
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Categories:
appreciation, crush, how i
Form: Lyric
Tangled up in youTangled up in blue Bob Dylan song contest
Tangled up in you
I remember the day I saw her,
running down the avenue...
Chestnut hair flowing in the air,
I was taken by the view
She was running late, ran by my gate,
saying how do you do....
I said, don't run away, come make my day,
turn...
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Categories:
humorous, light, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
RUSTED DREAMSVerse 1
There’s a rusted-out old steeple
Off Highway 31, near my dad’s old trailer
I left that place with shaking hands,
Swore I’d never kneel again—
But silence pulls like the wind before a storm.
Verse 2
I try to keep my eyes open
But the world keeps shifting tones,
The faces I once laughed with
Fade like echoes down a payphone—
Still, I hear...
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Categories:
feelings, god, muse, mystery,
Form: Lyric
No one compares to youNo one compares (to you)
I cry myself to sleep almost every night
since you took my heart away
I try to tell myself... that it's alright
I can live for one more day
Everywhere I go, things remind me of you
the whispers on the breeze,
My sorrow paralyzes, what can I do?
it brings me to my knees
Chorus
There's no solace in...
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Categories:
bereavement, heartbreak, longing, lost
Form: Lyric
As This River Gives, Rock a Bye, Lyrics
As this river gives, not giving a damn
Emptying out the lake of hate, I am
This ecosystem dies, but was it alive?
Just surviving on dreams that I kept inside
Confusion fills me, deep as this hole
The sinkhole depths mirror my soul
No reflections to see, nothing left to find
Just hollowing cries, and thoughts unkind
Saturated tears, muddled in fears
A...
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Categories:
birth, break up, divorce,
Form: Lyric
FAR AWAY
Take me for away
I'm at end of my way,
that started from birth
on mother Earth !
Now almost at point of death :
Waiting for my...
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Categories:
how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Lyric Poems
Read wonderful lyric poetry on the following sub-topics:
country, friendship, funny, kids, life, love, middle school, music, song,
and more.
Definition | What is Lyric in Poetry?