Anthology poem
...Standard of life still same
Only people who have change
A changed time, a society broken
Even to themselves a denied truth
A world of mortalities do they exist
A time forgotten like an ancie...
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Categories:
mortalities, absence, change, character, confidence,
Form: Didactic
Dead of the Soul
...On a hillside,far in country
Water edge of dark unforeseen
Like a soul, creatures scurry its depths
Tormented life behind the walls
Trials of endurance, tragedy in lost
Dead of the Soul it liv...
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Categories:
mortalities, deep, emotions, image, self,
Form: Imagism
Inevitability
...Inevitability
David J Walker
This is how I turned 20
With plenty of time left to
Opine its wastings awaiting
The sun to set
The weekend to come
Christmas
Birthdays
Summer vacati...
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Categories:
mortalities, allegory, life,
Form: Free verse
Notes On Truth
...— This poem describes our journey from the reality of life to the truth of death.
— The introductory “then” connoting ‘in medias res’ is reminiscent of the opening of Dante’s journey to the inferno ...
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Categories:
mortalities, death, life,
Form: Prose
Pathogen Given Provision
...Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, ...
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Categories:
mortalities, age, confusion, death, endurance,
Form: Quintain (English)
Entering of Realms
...Thrown are we, irresolute innocence through regurgitated realities…
Distortions of parallel paradigms-
excrements of encrypted rhymes,
Sacrificial sapient slaves marooned by masochisti...
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Categories:
mortalities, anxiety, depression, loss,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Era
...Pictures are changing
I'm alone again and alone
The sky is far off
Mute to shine
To envy to envy in darkness
Being the longest day in the day when the harvest is dry
It's been a long time ago
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Categories:
mortalities, 3rd grade,
Form: ABC
Theater of Utter Charm Part 23
...sometimes you have to look after your sanity
and try to understand the laws of sequence
where before and after absolutely must preexist
perhaps consciousness cannot access its source
but we're no...
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Categories:
mortalities, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Surrealisticity
...Surrealisticity
WHEN IS TIME?
Ethereal benevolence surrounds the omens of my dreams
In lieu of hoped-for transcendence trickling through my seems
Your obtuse ambiguity invoked an angelic en...
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Categories:
mortalities, allusion, death, fate, heaven,
Form: Blank verse
Locked In
...Nothingness fills every inch of me
abominable sensations crawl from deepest recesses
anxiety lunges at me – clawing at the soul
already battle-weary, depleted…
Mortalities plague my waking mom...
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Categories:
mortalities, anxiety, death, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Think About Africa First
...Difficult to sing, but let us chorus today
Let us all sing African patriotism song
Africa the golden land of our fathers
Would be exceptionally advanced in all fields
But stewards full of ego...
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Categories:
mortalities, africa, patriotic, song,
Form: Lyric
Vigil
...As moonbeams settle softly on her face,
lay bare the gaunt and haggard visage there,
a woman whose whole life was spent in care
for those who ran and won another race.
Those stippled hands, t...
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Categories:
mortalities, death,
Form: Verse
Vigil
...As moonbeams settle softly on her face,
lay bare the gaunt and haggard visage there,
a woman whose whole life was spent in care
for those who ran and won another race.
Those stippled hands, t...
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Categories:
mortalities, death,
Form: Verse
Shhhhhhh
...Whispers cloud the judgment of weakened minds
wreaking havoc with the fragile balance of id and ego
humbling the sprout in its new greenery.
The winds are made of whispers, fear is their home
and e...
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Categories:
mortalities, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Vigil
...As moonbeams settle softly on her face,
lay bare the gaunt and haggard visage there,
a woman whose whole life was spent in care
for those who ran and won another race.
Those stippled hands, the measu...
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Categories:
mortalities, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
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