Howling Wilderness
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Written: June 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Quote: "I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in the mountains and the desert..." By Rumi
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Categories:
meaninglessness, appreciation, change,
Form: Rhyme
Cloaked in Shadow
...I was drenched in black water,
Yet, it looked as though I were dried out.
I stood before a lighthouse,
Yet, remained unseen.
Gazing into the sea’s blackness,
The highest tides forever circled ...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, confusion, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Indian Wasteland
...It is the world of Shiva and Shaitan
It is the world of Krishna and Kant
Devi on Nandi holding Demon and Son
Devotees, Deities, Ash, Claps and Fun
Fragile girl carrying child in her arm's
No...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, absence, anxiety, black love,
Form: Sonnet
From default yes to designed no
...O to live life in relentless outreach
And still stay put, stagnant, nowhere to reach,
To struggle hard, getting not so in hand,
To feign busy as if a butterfly,
Or a productive bee nevertheless,
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Categories:
meaninglessness, life,
Form: Blank verse
The 4 AM Voice
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(A lone voice whispers)
As we stroll this Long Walk together
On Boxing Day
Someone's prayer reached out through the Ether and asked me
Hey
Are we all silently walking in a spi...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
In The Cycle Of Existence
...Whose psyche has come to my physique? Do I ever know?
I accept it as a stream accepts the fresh rain and flow.
In Ram, Rahim, and Robert, Rajeet this soul might have been
Did this dwell in Buddha ...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, birth, death, joy, life,
Form: Rhyme
In the twilight of her mind, where shadows play and memories twist
...In the twilight of her mind, where shadows play and memories twist,
She stood before the mirror, that ancient oracle of truth and deceit.
A reflection, elusive as the morning mist,
Dancing on the ...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Crooked
...Crooked
They are the ones who make them forget the existence they have and surround them with the spirit of their new life.
The grave may be the provider of new bodies and matter taken by countin...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, people,
Form: Free verse
Blood Pulsing Deletions
...Natural death licking aims
Now our bleach seasons heirs
And the pubis of public lore
Intrauterine spinning blue dream cream
Roils rushing a rock star’s semen searching
For golden lands of rum...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, death, deep, evil, gothic,
Form: Free verse
there's hope at the end
...Do you ever feel like
There is an emptiness inside you
An emptiness
That drains the light out of everything?
A black hole
Life in grayscale
Colors faded
Flavors muted
Voices distant
exc...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, depression, emotions, hope, mental
Form: Free verse
Meditation on Meaninglessness
...In shadow's tomb—
A dim, aimless flicker...
Void's grip, timeless
claims all.
Fantomsound: life's song is just a cognition in the null.
Rain, pain—
Stardust, dust, flesh
patternless on o...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, atheist, death, irony, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
An Eternal Immortality
...Seeming of a blessing, that morphs into a heavy curse
Infinite youth behind old eyes that behold a library of stories
Every generation is what writes in themselves the next verse
And the chains of...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, life, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Us and Them We Are One
...I was listening to various people talk about the Israel versus Palestine events and it saddened me that we are in 2023 and humans have not learned the lessons of the past. It's easy for anyone to giv...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, death, discrimination, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Heart's Searcher
...September 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 16-17
Key Verse – Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your heart...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Zen Nihilism-POTD
...Written: September 05, 2023
This or That, Vol 20 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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In the Zen kingdom, ...
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Categories:
meaninglessness, analogy, appreciation, beauty, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
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