Love
...love has no conditions
no contract
no absolutes
no rules or regulations
love is automatic
she cannot be thwarted or obliterated
you cannot talk her out of herself
love demands freedom
she...
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Categories:
obliterated, love,
Form: Personification
Seashells
...Passion had finally washed away my serene demeanor. As I gaze toward the vast expanse of beach at Coney Island, my heart stirs at the sight of a couple strolling leisurely along the boardwalk. I can'...
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Categories:
obliterated, appreciation, butterfly, crazy, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
And Just Like That
...Just when things were looking up,
When the sun started to shine once more,
The floor is yanked from underneath my feet,
And I’m shaken to my very core.
I thought I climbed to the top of the hill,...
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Categories:
obliterated, change, fate, growth, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Interview with Bikini Atoll
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Interviewer:
What is the original name for your island chain now called Bikini?
What happened to it?
What has it become here and now?
What is your future?
Bikini Atoll:
Well w...
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Categories:
obliterated, home,
Form: Free verse
Implant Within me a Seed
...Implant within me a seed monthly, though the pulverization derides me. Let it conjure hope and solace to shatter my reality as venomous weeds entwine it, sickening me as I lay still in the liquid bir...
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Categories:
obliterated, allegory, anger, angst, beautiful,
Form: Haibun
The Street
...Some of them are living ghosts,
they have buried their roots
under newer foundations,
or they still live anonymously
under a rock of poverty.
If you asked me to name them
I could not, for the...
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Categories:
obliterated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
children of Palestine
...Children in Palestine
He sat down to write a poem for nature
When he closed his eyes saw, bombed-out buildings
Rain dripping from wrecked concrete onto
The street, a muddy pool, but that
didn`t ...
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Categories:
obliterated, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC
DUTY just my opinion D
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DUTY - an oblige - obliterated by id & ignored...
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Categories:
obliterated, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
One must possess the patience of Job,
...“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.
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Categories:
obliterated, 12th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Peelings of oranges
...Peelings of oranges lying on the floor,
Forging a scent of a time that had passed long ago,
Obliterated shards of memory started to ignite,
Diving to the forest of crimson pale light,
Crushing in...
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Categories:
obliterated, dream, heartbreak, how i
Form: Rhyme
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan
no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed...
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Categories:
obliterated, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Etched In Stone
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The whirlwind of time wafts my soul away
from me transiently rooted in the present,
to the distant desolate island of insulation,
where my home was once, but I left it forever.
That’s the f...
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Categories:
obliterated, analogy, desire, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Imperishable Stork
...The wounded, intrepid stork
remains defiant,
withstanding the ceaseless
rage.
An unwavering,
relentless bliss adorns it.
It enfolds a blooming dawn
in its fascinating heart.
A ...
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Categories:
obliterated, adventure, angel,
Form: Free verse
We Fall in Love and They Have No Mercy
...{"You mugged out all of the resonant voices whispering in your head, you summoned them to go noiseless against your cranium. You beseeched not to be an overthinker, nor to forge as one of them. It wa...
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Categories:
obliterated, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Alive Again
...I wanna seek the entire universe for a Vimana Machine
One with a shiny Tesla Coil that shimmers and gleams
I'd jump to a variety of dates in my distant past
To save a handful of important peopl...
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Categories:
obliterated, death, sister,
Form: Rhyme
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