field of forgiveness
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your field lies bare and vacant
a patch of wasteland never toiled
pardon not granted merciless and cold
a harvest of apology’s acceptance lost
in resentment anger fear and insecurity
seeds o...
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Categories:
normalize, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Sneak Preview of the 'Big Debate'
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My opponent will destroy democracy
But my opponent will normalize hypocrisy
My opponent pays hush money to whores
Well, my opponent snoozes in meetings and snores
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Categories:
normalize, how i feel, political,
Form: Couplet
YOU, YOU AND YOU
...Yes, it's true
The government holds the steering
To national development bearing
For they collect taxes, fees and dues.
But what if it starts with you
You, you and you claiming to be common
F...
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Categories:
normalize, 12th grade, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Rewrite Now
...Bring back the taste of homemade gifts
normalize giving straight from the heart;
A look back is how this mindset shifts;
Time together is a good place to start,
the best present is to be in th...
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Categories:
normalize, december, emotions, feelings, holiday,
Form: Terza Rima
Bells
..."I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Three Christian Churches here used to play
Their hymns rang out along the way
They took turns with their chimes eac...
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Categories:
normalize, america, childhood, christmas, happiness,
Form: Monorhyme
Here It Is
...Nothing is certain where truth is accepted concept and not a certain.
how can it even be spoken and related in a language that has exceptions to the rules, the profiund truth is perceived many ways ...
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Categories:
normalize, absence, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Empathetic Light
...Empathetic Light
Lady Diana, the exquisite Princess of Wales.
A heroine now in hundreds of tales.
An accomplished pianist at Buckingham Palace.
A hopeful ballerina, a kindergarten teacher.
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Categories:
normalize, beauty, courage, devotion, fashion,
Form: Free verse
The Society
...Trying to normalize
My differences
They took my spine
And crumbled it
As a stale bread
Now they’re enveloping
Their parts
With my pieces
So they can taste better...
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Categories:
normalize, analogy, body, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse
Outgoing President a Disaster
...Fired shots that smelt not their target,
Gold digger far away from nugget;
Plight of the masses fought the wrong way:
Not one of them did meet a bright day...
Your pictures in offices fidget,
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Categories:
normalize, image, people, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
We Can't Normalize Gun Violence
...How many times must we amend
The gruesome news of death again?
What venue will Fate next abase,
some hapless, unsuspecting place?
Such acts still shake us to the core -
These senseless slaughte...
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Categories:
normalize, change, child abuse, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Wrapped
...It’s December, it’s foggy and rainy, but that fits. Of course, a rainy Saturday means gathering in the common room with my roommates and watching either “The Hunger Games” or “Twilight.” Leong’s neve...
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Categories:
normalize, december, internet, music, school,
Form: Free verse
Audible Sighs
...a setting sun
ends its run
the day's done,
darkness won
night's begun
everyone
but my son
leaves one by one.
gazing up at night's starry skies
through a five-year-old's eyes,
he starts to...
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Categories:
normalize, allusion, beautiful, child, fun,
Form: Haiku
The Living God
...I am serving the living God
A God like no other
The Creator of the universe
Omnipresent
Omniscient
The beginning and the end
God who says what He means
And means what He says
I am servi...
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Categories:
normalize, birth, blessing, christian, confidence,
Form: Free verse
A Rather Uncomfortable Story
...PART I
The girl was walking with the boy. The color of her cotton saree was lighter green. Her face was a little worried. Some might not fully understand the situation, some might see her behavio...
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Categories:
normalize, best friend,
Form: Prose
Remember When
...Do you remember when........
We played imaginary games as kids?
The PC Police did not flip their lids.
It was truly a magical time to be.
Cowboys, Indians, yes and we climbed trees.
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Categories:
normalize, america, angst, child abuse,
Form: Couplet
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