Allow Me To speak
...Don't think I'm an old substance.
I too was, like you, young once.
I am weighed down by silence.
Times have tested my patience.
Why should you speak for my sake?
Can you heal my every ache?
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Categories:
mouthpiece, freedom, life,
Form: Rhyme
Eden
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She collects souls to be their shepherd,
to keep them — and their short lives — safe.
All moments, catalogued
in the chaos and cosmos.
She watches them thrive.
Her curiosity appears as w...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, devotion,
Form: Free verse
My Honour, So I Object
...Today I have no counsel.
No mouthpiece carved from conscience,
no briefcase of softened truths,
no evidence to prove innocence.
Just me— the accused,
standing in the ribcage of a collapsing co...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, allegory, discrimination, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Bell Shaped Bottom of the Paragraph
...Prognostic,___Anticipation
Doce de Leite
It was a bold statement.
One that was made in front of a lot of
people. But pouring tea and reading
the leaves$!2$-$%!!! (trademark
restriction...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, character, film, slam, sound,
Form: Bio
World War, Overdue
...No prophesy, epiphany or convoluted scheme
Forecast it’s not. For sure, no joke. And isn’t a pipe dream
But something tells me, instinct chimes, we are so overdue
For global war, as tensions build...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, war, world, world war
Form: Rhyme
True Power Of Words
...Words are seeds that grow and blossom,
Open doors,
Change the course,
The mouthpiece of the mind,
Intertwined with society,
Use case undefined,
Words depart as soon as they come,
Although,
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Categories:
mouthpiece, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Shipwrecked Heart's Lament
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Written: January 24, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Miranda Hawley
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Refuse, to ignite fuse
Whispers weave, wild bruise
Faintly forc...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, adventure, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
I miss who I used to be
...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi
Upon my quest for quintessence.
I was an amorist,
positive in poetic philosophies.
Elysian and empyrean effigies,
enlightened i...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Alliteration
A Puff Piece
...Politics
in Hyde Park
was at the end of a shtick
FDR’s mouthpiece
a cigarette holder
suspended over
his spinning wheels
Pearl Harbor
a puff of smoke
It was a new deal
It was big
Th...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, war,
Form: Free verse
Ink - Poi
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Sorrows slowly release
internal inflictions to
form poetic mouthpiece
Revealing what's true
Narrating through verse
Expressing your view
Life can immerse
Kil...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, poetry,
Form: Other
Divine Magnetism
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I feel it in the hush of twilight's gentle glow,
where spiritual shadows dance in whispers.
An intangible force, unseen yet sincere.
A magnetism from realms where ego dies.
A profound vision ...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, spiritual,
Form: Sestina
In Defense of Saxophones in Rock
...I've got the lecture notes ready
I've got the examples
Just blow what I'm telling you to blow
I am responsible for the resurgence of the sales of saxophones
I unlock the doors of my car
By...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, allegory, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Unashamedly Yes I Have Also 2 Admit 2
...Unashamedly Yes but unfortunately
I also have to admit to doing this my own self
Otherwise who am I then in fact
No better in fact rather so far much worse
If I know the truth yet then...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, anger,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Colours Add Colours To Life
...#IntrinsicConnection
A splash of colours on a plain white sheet,
I add life to the paper, That's what I see.
I mix those colours and derive brand new ones,
Sometimes they seem absolutely anonymou...
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Categories:
mouthpiece, art, beautiful, life, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
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