Buttermorphosis
...I recall the rural life of the butterfly
Extravagantly —that proud floating mass of wings.
Her wings flutter from sea to coast so eloquently,
Yet silent with the muteness of frightened breeze.
Th...
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Categories:
muteness, butterfly, insect, life,
Form: Free verse
THE MASK OF VIRTUES
...I give love —
to my enemies,
not for their salvation,
but to tame the chasms within me.
The angel of death sneers
when vanity bewitches me
and whispers that its intoxications are eternal.
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Categories:
muteness, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
silence volumes and voids in between
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i’ve never seen out a window ~ maybe you can help describe the scene
said the blind man to Siri ~ asking her to throw light on his life’s dream
a chatbot overheard Siri’s muteness ~ and typ...
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Categories:
muteness, allusion, deep, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Silent hum of grief
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My souls mutters in the muteness;
"Is my melancholy more melancholic than yours?"
I gaze across a bridge,
wondering which stream flows to you,
as nobody understands how
in the definition of...
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Categories:
muteness, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Chip Friends
...Chip Friends
Long ago my chip friends had
abandoned me. My inborn muteness is
highly offensive, but
legendary.
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Categories:
muteness, humor,
Form: Free verse
Power in the Tongue
...Lies sprang from your fountains like a stream.
I saw them flowing through every ear.
Like the midday sun's bright rainbow beam
I saw it lighting each nook and sphere
You're joyous. Your face sh...
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Categories:
muteness, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it
...If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.
In the garden of silence, where words are unblossomed flowers and sighs, invisible dew,
We grow, we trees with deep roo...
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Categories:
muteness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When Silence Speaks
...When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt,
I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity,
amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining regrets~
upon flowers, sway...
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Categories:
muteness, abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Blame
...A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs
This is not a sad poem,
but my hungry hands hunger to express,
as autumn brings b...
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Categories:
muteness, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse
Despite Every Crime, He Is Mine
...Sounding like the goosebump tickles,
on the edges of naked breath,
awaiting the solace of prickly feelings
hesitant as the gossamer gentling
each hue of delicate blossoms and blooms,
each bud ca...
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Categories:
muteness, appreciation, christian, god, inspirational
Form: Free verse
One Last Dream
...To shivering seas
mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms
with blue orchids
and plum blossoms,
singing sunflower symphon...
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Categories:
muteness, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Spring Sonata
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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Stunning light reflects the music,
Sof...
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Categories:
muteness, spring,
Form: Free verse
Awaking from Stupor
...Line of enquiry.
It’s not desire per say but the clinging ~
that stifles soul and stops heart from singing
enlivening silence sets our soul free ~
vibrant in the now, joyful and carefree”
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Categories:
muteness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Haunted Path
...Spooky Halloween Rhyme 8-16 Lines 10-19-23
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Haunted Path
Ebony mists disguise a windswept path,
Unseen fingers rustle decay...
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Categories:
muteness, confusion, halloween, scary,
Form: Rhyme
To Mock Butterflies
...My existence seems like a timeless tragedy,
ticking away in the harmony of misophonia and me.
I've been reluctantly raised in the arms of trauma,
hiding from the darkness looking over my s...
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Categories:
muteness, anxiety, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
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