What the Hill Remembers
...I have counted her footsteps
for thirty-seven years
the same path worn
into my slope,
the same pause
at the thorny ridge
where she catches her breath
and adjusts the
weight on her spin...
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Categories:
of necessity, children, mother, woman,
Form: Free verse
Smoke And Mirrors - Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe - A Musical Video- POTD
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POTD June 15 2025
Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
When regulation picks at pillaged dreams
The searchlight shines its ...
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Categories:
of necessity, anxiety, emotions, identity, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
Thickened and scarred, my mask bears the burden of time
...Thickened and scarred, my mask bears the burden of time,
Torn, stained, this tough shell silently unravels,
And yet, somehow, it continues to keep me alive, to protect me from the world,
It was ne...
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Categories:
of necessity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR EXISTING
...All those who chatter behind my back only confirm that I'm moving forward.
I don’t slow down—
their criticism, their slander is my fuel.
Disguised applause
from those who never had the guts to wa...
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Categories:
of necessity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life is a Cycle
...Life is a cycle
It lives and breathes
Not a moment can be still
It's fragility
Born of necessity
Carried on at will
For all the unfairness
We have to go on
Find sense to be free
Even...
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Categories:
of necessity, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Change Is A Necessity
...Don't ask why I change
Life is never be the same
I believe things evolve
This year I'm 55, 56 next year
This time I have many gray hairs
Not knowing next months all are white
I see my face has ...
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Categories:
of necessity, age, change, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Mindfulness
...Be mindful of what you consume, for it shapes your being.
Nourish your vessel with compassion, as your diet influences your inclinations.
Choose your music judiciously, for rhythm resonates de...
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Categories:
of necessity, courage, food, health, life,
Form: Free verse
Free Flowing Spirit Of Love
...First come, first served love
Is confusing and detrimental
Kind of relationship heart thing.
Never love if force is being made
Neither happiness with money based
A guarantee of secured relati...
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Categories:
of necessity, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Got No Words
...Seldom I write
poetry like this
out of scratch mind.
Maybe, out of curve
and ordinary nuances
this life I shared.
No one knows when
to write, how you start
just out of necessity.
Word...
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Categories:
of necessity, perspective, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
The Beastly System
...Life shattered by the state
merciless and heavy handed...
It may seem as if a fate
threw you here to be stranded.
All alone with your sorrow,
with the grief stamped on your soul
for today and...
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Categories:
of necessity, abuse, care, heartbroken, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Eckes’s Poem
...The poet, like many in education’s grip,
Faces another summer with pockets stripped.
In Eckes’s poem, two forms meet face to face:
The unemployment office, a dreary place.
Insults and banalitie...
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Categories:
of necessity, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Poet
...A poet dips and plants
till a green appears from
the tip of his pen
no wonder
the old masters used a deep
well of ink to troll
pierced their boils of necessity
for a word-ooze,
pa...
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Categories:
of necessity, inspirational, introspection, mystery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
If You Only Knew
...hexastich with rhyme
I drink my coffee standing on alert
knowing that my tasks move this chunk of dirt
on its axis... my world, my family.
Of necessity, I grab at moments
attacking life (with ...
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Categories:
of necessity, 11th grade, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom
...Freedom, freedom, where are you?
Let my action be of choice and have the absence of necessity to liberate my mind from slavery.
Produce the quality of good state in me.
Freedom, freedom, wh...
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Categories:
of necessity, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
THE TRUTH ABOUT UNDERSTANDING TRUE LOVE
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My heart will always be expecting good times
many hearts expect good times
their future lies in expectation of positive futures
there is no substance to save the soul when expectation dies
The...
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Categories:
of necessity, age, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
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