Identity
...IDENTITY
I just want to be who I am, or even to know
Living this modern life is like being in armour
True freedom, now merely a fading memory
Following the script like a long running drama
But...
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Categories:
misshaped, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Brooding Nimbus
...Contest: Brooding Nimbus Sponsor: Edward Ibeh 6-19-23
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Brooding Nimbus
Midnight trails a filmy brooding nimbus,
Idle shadows etch lines on...
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Categories:
misshaped, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Crenelated Crimson
...In deep crenelated crimson,
Autumn arrives in regal robes.
Her boisterous blue burgundy
surging with violent carmine.
Autumn arrives in regal robes
carpeting the earth with fractured
parquet ...
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Categories:
misshaped, autumn, color, day, night,
Form: Other
Labels
...The labels, some serve to award with honour
and others are just straight up meant to demean
The much sought after accolades and the prestige, ever so enticing
lend a tender sweet stroke to massa...
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Categories:
misshaped, character, confidence, how i
Form: I do not know?
Lavishly Holy Designs
...Designs we find democratically attractive
include designs for acquiring healthy trust powers
with all others to be positively infected
by our mutual discussion,
dialogue, respectful discernment,...
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Categories:
misshaped, caregiving, creation, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Perfect Imperfection
...Perfect Imperfection
By Fabiola Rios
Earth could be in a hellfire blazing with hate, negativity, and hands open to clap upon our failure, yet together we yield a power capable of shielding us...
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Categories:
misshaped, beautiful, children, confidence, courage,
Form: Lyric
Ride Over Four Billion Mountains On a Baking Tray
...Ride over 4000000000 mountains on a baked tray
Times a tide,
Divide a ride,
Equal to no one is the writhe of a sprite,
In a whirl of a rotating rhombus,
Is the real
The reality of an equila...
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Categories:
misshaped, age,
Form: I do not know?
Things Woods Should Know
...Things Woods Should Know
Trees hang around like shady characters in the grove
An apple from one of them hit Newton on the head
He ate it then began to think
Things that woods should also know
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Categories:
misshaped, adventure, fantasy, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Later
...As much as I love to watch her undress
and anticipate what her reasons for doing so might be,
I find nothing more erotic than to watch her step out of the morning shower
and begin to prepare herse...
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Categories:
misshaped, passion, me, hair, love,
Form: Free verse
Family Pictures
...Pretty pictures hang on the wall
A family, a life
One we may recall
There was love and hope
Joy and fear
The kids might complain and mope
But the bond was so great
The ties never shook
It was almost ...
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Categories:
misshaped, family,
Form: Light Verse
Years After the Bombs
...Its been many years
Since the bombs did their worst
As they exploded worldwide
In radioactive burst
Our cities lie flattened
Where once they were tall
Their population thriving
Now in radia...
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Categories:
misshaped, angst, fantasy, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl That Was Forgotten
...Virgin skin and smiling eyes
lightly steps in black disguise.
The shadowed depths to travel in
‘neath lofted moon’s pale unveiling.
Spirited way on her lover’s calls,
sneaks through silent mirrored h...
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Categories:
misshaped, adventure, dedication, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Couplet
Tribute To a Lady
...Sometimes at evening when the sun goes down
I light a little candle all ready for love
I am older than Luther, soul of soul unbound
I bridge desire with Bee Gees, and move
To your ears to whisper...
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Categories:
misshaped, wifeheart, heart,
Form: Verse
Death's Inspire
...as I sit bye the fire
I am intrigued bye death's inspire
Skeleton's move in organinized fashion
Filling the room with quarrled passion
Will join us now that u are the newborn
Do u reconize your...
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Categories:
misshaped, caregiving, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form: Ballad
Misshaped Heart After Love
...a vase slammed on a
burner: the gold melts and all
contents of the vase
lie in repose -- gold encased
flowers and water steaming....
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Categories:
misshaped, angst, introspection, loss,
Form: Tanka
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