Manic Mess
...It seems that every 10 to 12 days or so
my living room faces the force of my manic episodes
sticky-tacking every coloring book image
completed to the walls
rearranging lights in hopes something ...
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Categories:
molds, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
The Refiner's Fire
...In the crucible of love, we're tested and tried,
Our hearts beaten, bruised, and scarred inside,
The flames of passion, fierce and wild and free,
Can burn away the facade, revealing what we truly ...
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Categories:
molds, truth,
Form: Free verse
FAITH IN GOD WHO IS OUR LIFE’S POTTER
...August 11 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 64-66
Key Verse – Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of ...
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Categories:
molds, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Revealing Venus
...The sculptor became jaded with prostitutes
the young ones were vacuous,
their bodies unleavened bread.
The mature subjects
scored by the violence of disappointment.
Both the naive and the world-...
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Categories:
molds, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the depths of silence, when the soul transforms into an echo of dreams
...In the depths of silence, when the soul transforms into an echo of dreams,
An ancient song is born, a tremor of divine creation,
Where duality weaves into spirals of light and shadow,
And the arti...
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Categories:
molds, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix's Lament
...I rose from flames that kissed my wings,
A timeless dance where rebirth sings.
Ash and ember, my cradle, my shroud,
I burn anew, fierce and proud.
I watched them gaze, their fragile eyes,
Afra...
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Categories:
molds, fire, mythology, strength,
Form: Free verse
You Have No Clue 2
...Before your clocks, before your name/
Before dust whispered into bone/
There was light-I was flame/
Crowned in brilliance, alone/
Not fallen. Not damned. Just other/
Too bright for Heaven's frag...
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Categories:
molds, betrayal, character, confidence, deep,
Form: Free verse
Lords of the Lattice
...Beneath the hum of unseen wires,
A shadow grows, its reach aspires.
No fields of earth, no rivers free,
Yet lords of code claim sovereignty.
Their towers rise, not stone but light,
A lattice s...
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Categories:
molds, power, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
In Stars Above
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I heard the pious people say, angels live in heaven,
and with the pristine celestial beauty they glow
as the sparkling stars in the far away milky way,
but I know they often descend on earth t...
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Categories:
molds, mother,
Form: Free verse
All I hear is Mold
...made out of clay to fit a mold
not always molded how we would want to be
well, most of us share the same mold
but the mold gets boring for society
we cry and laugh, our emotions are bold
suff...
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Categories:
molds, analogy, beautiful, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
In the silence that sings among the shadows of thoughts, they asked me what my greatest wish was
...In the silence that sings among the shadows of thoughts, they asked me what my greatest wish was,
And I answered without blinking, to never fit into foreign molds,
To step into rooms without bendin...
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Categories:
molds, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the Hands of One Another
...We rise not solely by our own,
But by the seeds of grace we've sown—
In helping hands and kind replies,
In weary smiles and tear-wiped eyes.
No throne outshines a servant’s grace,
Who bends to...
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Categories:
molds, character, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
In the mirror's gaze
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Each day I stand before the glass,
A meeting where truths unmask.
She waits for me with patient eyes,
Reflecting what I oft despise.
She shows me depths I never knew,
What I’ve ignored, what I...
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Categories:
molds, life,
Form: Couplet
The Programmed Mind
...("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustic photo collage)
The Programmed Mind
Riding our brain waves
What we do and say and think
Finds a lasting home
At whatever level
Those vibrat...
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Categories:
molds, health, introspection, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Attached to Childhood
...The threads we weave in the early years
Define the ties that hold our fears
Attachment forms, a hidden thread
Guiding the paths where we are led
Some reach for love with open arms
while other...
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Categories:
molds, analogy, growing up, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
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