Bruises of Unknown Origin
It was the first time
I heard the dove’s low call—
three minor notes
stretched thin across
a motionless prairie
on a shimmering hot afternoon,
the kind where even shadows
try not to move.
I felt like I should be
in mourning too—
but for what, I didn’t know
or had forgotten.
Black Cats and Roman candles
found no customers that day,
just heat, and a solitary
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Categories:
origin, 7th grade, firework, memory,
Form: Free verse
WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW
What we think we know
From the history book as we grow
About how we become humans
Might just be a grain of sand in a desert
Religion taught of the creation
A good will of a bigger being
Who from dust mold, better carves
The most intelligent thing on Earth.
Early scientists say we evolve
From ape-like creatures, bushy hairs
Transformed from round
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Categories:
origin, 12th grade, christian, creation,
Form: Free verse
Origin of Hope
How many tears must hope shed?
Is there no bread left for the hungry,
or cures bred for the sick?
Can hard work feed itself no more,
neither trust share its roots with truth,
with no water left to nurture either one?
Does love have none left for itself,
nor mercy favor fruits of friendship
as it once did?
Do rainbows reign no more
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Categories:
origin, christian, god, hope, religious,
Form: Free verse
Red-Bearded Origin
Whenever I spot
red-bearded Origin,
the destitute street musician
of Budapest who asks for a donation,
not making a protest with a grin;
don't be amazed if I'm the first
to drop coins in his empty cup:
does anybody, not in a rush, ever stop
and give him some attention?
Does he ever feel humiliation?
He's too young to
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Categories:
origin, anxiety, blue, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric
FROM ORIGIN
if i think deeply
i realize that I already knew
everything from the beginning
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Categories:
origin, allusion, perspective,
Form: Couplet
In Origin
In origin, all form in chaos lay:
One wilderness of warped and seething spray.
Thus, intermixed lay Earth and Sky and Sea,
Until a cooling calm let order be.
Cool crystallized, the Earth and Sea didst fall
Beneath the Sky, which cast its golden shawl.
Whence, from its warmth, the silver seeds didst spring,
Each words within the song the heavens sing.
So
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Categories:
origin, earth, flower, garden, god,
Form: Rhyme
Origin of Those CA Wild Fires - Contest
A California babe named Lizzy
As hot as her best friend named Dizzy
These two girls are on fire
Desires climbing higher
Fanning and licking flames ~ His name’s Izzy
An
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Categories:
origin, desire, fire, humor, sexy,
Form: Limerick
The slap with its origin
Going ahead walking through the cold,
hearing "you got this" from someone who got told,
to tell me this to tell me that,
maybe because I didn't allow someone to let out a pat.
On the shoulder never.
I never forget to take a jacket with me,
but when he started to be all I see,
even though
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Categories:
origin, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans filled the padded room,
as did the sound of flesh slapping flesh.
I just just kept going with my little tune,
a teardrop
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Categories:
origin, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Epic
Memorial Day 2024 origin of holiday
Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday
Strong and brave men and women
gave their level best
crème de la crème
strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others
with emotional agony
within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt
the enemy did crest,
where lovely bones
of forebears for everest
battling hostility over
well fought over ass strew turf
among warring factions
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Categories:
origin, absence, america, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Noodles Origin
Noodles is China
Their life's main staple food
Centuries old, Brah!
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Categories:
origin, culture, food, history, people,
Form: Haiku
Obsessed
Soft hands, intertwined with mine,
Increasing my grip, for we have no time.
Your bright eyes, your beautiful smile,
Down to my knees, I fall again.
Mon amour, you belong to my heart,
A tear falls to the thought of our depart.
Your soft hug comforting my wounds,
But I can't seem to let go of you...
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Categories:
origin, depression, desire, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Origin
Mutual reinforcement of illusion
and expectation.
House of Livia
filled in by our imagination.
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Lines disconnected from teachings
on Art, Poetry at random.
What did you muse to be their origination?
Perhaps that’ll take you somewhere.
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Categories:
origin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Origin of Her Bad Dreams
As she saw dead bodies of some innocent people
In east of D.R.Congo before sleeping,
she had a nightmare.
Seeing some goons
wearing dangerous masks with guns
attacking her family.
She screamed for help and no one came.
So the bandits killed them so badly.
She was so confused,
crying for losing some relatives.
Woke up morning
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Categories:
origin, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Gwenith Ddu a Prose of Welsh Origin
Black Wheat
A flash ; and crash; booming
thundering of ear drums broken.
Burning feet ; enveloping heat ;
winds of razors shredding skin.
Fields of scorch; distant fusion torch;
Ploughs melt bleached bones scatter.
Earth seared; parts human appeared;
lasered ,vast hunger reigns.
A million Suns ; burning as one;
Steamed oceans vanish, rivers to.
Lotts wife repeated; all food depleated;
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Categories:
origin, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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