To the Moon and Back
...ill drive down the highway at one eighty two
you'll say that'll we'll die but i know that can't be true
cause the strings and the signs of fate pulled us together
and they won't tear us apart for...
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Categories:
mutes, 12th grade, allusion, light,
Form: Rhyme
The sound of breaking
...
The sound of breaking is late.
Thunder shatters gray clouds after
lightning strikes the damp soil.
When pieces of sky pierce flesh,
the scream is slow to rise—
The sound of breaki...
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Categories:
mutes, blue, light, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Arctic Antics
...A crunch of snow
Alerts the prey
To freeze…
Or flee
A cat
Shakes it paws
Thinking
“shoulda used the litter box”
A dog
Rolls happily
Wrestling
Its inner puppy
The metallic sound
Of ...
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Categories:
mutes, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Latest News Headlines
...Latest News Headlines
Latest news headlines: Pork Schnitzels Learn to
Do the
Waltz; Mr Broken Leg Joins
Facebook; Curly Fry Girl Drowns in
Bird Bath; Bacon Juice Cures
Nymphomaniacs and ...
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Categories:
mutes, humor,
Form: Free verse
Too Young To Break
...Beneath the swing set’s creak,
joy whispered like a ghost,
while clouds of heaviness
settled like stones on my chest.
My voice evaporated,
with every swing and sway,
as I reached for something ...
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Categories:
mutes, anger, anxiety, childhood, depression,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup Main Fixings: Words
...Words that stem from the heart seldom a mind,
would update fellow captives of a world
they knew--spent or saved since, much like the word
they are ... or were. Absentia defined
the heart's favor ...
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Categories:
mutes, analogy,
Form: Italian Sonnet
A TIGER TREMBLES
...branches hang heavy
darkness roils overhead
a tiger trembles
lottery tickets
adrift in rain swept gutters
discarded dreams
weeping roses bow
in a stillness silenced scent
a bee bumble...
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Categories:
mutes, childhood, fun, rain,
Form: Senryu
Songs of Soul COS No 1: AABB
...As the blade searches for the life of me,
The torment glides the blade with certainty,
Deeper the journey as my body writhe,
The pain lingers as I'm denied relief,
Suspicion mingles with the bloo...
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Categories:
mutes, analogy, character, emotions, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Celafid Namoyll
...Humours turn acrid near
The silent seer.
Escaping absentees scamper
Further down the hole that holds their likeness
Extinguish | fatal obscurant | visions.
| fata obscura |
...
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Categories:
mutes, silence, visionary, words,
Form: Free verse
Unassailable Purity
...When accidental
auroras stroll along
the pale highlights of
camouflaging corpses
and death blossoms
in vulturous hearts of
dreadful puppets,
she always holds
pixie dusts of
strawberry s...
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Categories:
mutes, angst, courage, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Big Words, Small Words Its Really Up To Her
...She wasn't a learned woman per se or so I was told,
by the air that surrounded her late in the eve as she talked away;
Its as if she plucked it from the time belt of knowledge,
Nostradamus styl...
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Categories:
mutes, appreciation, hero, write,
Form: Prose
Poets
...POETS
Desert dust before the rain hampered our walk
on the Oregon floor
boards creaked with late afternoon lore
Dry gin in a glass wait...
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Categories:
mutes, art, books, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Where the Crawdads Sing
...Just past far as you can go,
yonder, where the crawdads sing,
out beyond time’s ebb and flow,
festival is full in swing.
Bullfrog’s on the tympany,
joined by pileated drums.
Katydids join com...
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Categories:
mutes, fantasy, music, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Shattered Pt;1
...The wind whistles through the cracks of the window that can’t be fully shut. I sigh, willing myself to simply ignore it. Another and another potato loses their form as I slice them into paper slim pi...
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Categories:
mutes, depression,
Form: Free verse
Reality
...at the cusp between
slumber and wakefulness
I reach a subconscious of wonder
it seems that my house was built
too close to the ocean
foundations and perimeter walls
supported by reason and ...
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Categories:
mutes, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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