Delusions
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A thousand bees never settling down,
buzzed within his head.
Their confused drone, into a ruffled rumble grew,
lengthening into frenzied drum beats,
taking t...
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Categories:
oscillating, angst, bible, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Ways of Providence
...My mind shudders at the memory of a dark day in my life when our son, a late boon into our arid life- (the one born to us after twelve years of long waiting,) was admitted in the ICU, almost lifeless...
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Categories:
oscillating, angst, fear, god, inspirational
Form: Haibun
At the age when I should have been carrying a backpack full of dreams and deadlines
...At the age when I should have been carrying a backpack full of dreams and deadlines,
I carry insomnia stitched under my eyes like war medals for which no one applauds,
They tell me "it's just a pha...
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Categories:
oscillating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Kundalini Empowerment
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O raja reigning is the light of all lights
electric rays beaming oscillating waves
I embody my spirit in a physical form
I kindly request her divinity to roam
beseeching with contr...
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Categories:
oscillating, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
We are all children of the moon, restless, wandering in primordial light
...We are all children of the moon, restless, wandering in primordial light,
Oscillating in pure light that carries us beyond time, like a lost dream,
We come from an undefined nowhere, without a dest...
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Categories:
oscillating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
LIGHT
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Floating on a rock in an Infinite Space, Drifting with the Whirlpools and Eddies
of the Cosmos, Dancing with the Stars and Space Dust, One with the Light,
Riding High with Infinitudes, Blaz...
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Categories:
oscillating, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Woke
...Woke
When white lies plot the course
Oscillating between trust and deception
Kindling radical dialogue with smoking tongues
Escalating unilateral world supremacy
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Categories:
oscillating, allusion, destiny,
Form: Acrostic
What She Gave and Took
...She taught me to pray
with hands that bruised the bread
and sometimes, me.
The kitchen smelled of cinnamon,
but the corners were quiet with grief.
I was loved--loudly, then not at all.
Her ...
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Categories:
oscillating, childhood, family, grief, love,
Form: Free verse
Drinking is an emotional experience, an elixir that pulls you from the monotony of everyday life
...Drinking is an emotional experience, an elixir that pulls you from the monotony of everyday life,
It takes you out of ordinary patterns, from all that is identical and dull, like a story told too ma...
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Categories:
oscillating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
...Everything we experience in life
shows in our poetry -- both shallow
and deep – weeds and blossoms~
words come forth oscillating bitter/sweet
harvest, from, hopefully, an honest
sowing --
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Categories:
oscillating, creation, language, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Squirmy the Worm
...A worm gets the idea of oscillation
and just moves—
aimless, dirt-laced, unbothered.
Regenerates its body.
Takes orders from nobody.
So I humbly approached a worm:
“Hey worm, you seem to know...
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Categories:
oscillating, 3rd grade, betrayal, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Architecture of anthropological anteaters
...The day the hour,
The meat the shower,
Show no oscillating octopus to an octagonal obelisk and eat a Greek tortilla upside down in a second. It is wiser to tread lightly in a miller’s abode. Round ...
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Categories:
oscillating, aubade, beautiful, bird, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
I hate you because I love you too much, a paradox that tears my being apart
...I hate you because I love you too much, a paradox that tears my being apart,
The river of my thoughts flows into an ocean of contradictions,
Waves of passion and fury crash against the shore of my ...
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Categories:
oscillating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Within The Orchestra Of A Bleeding Heart
...I hear violins playing
Oscillating in the auditorium
As the orchestra resounds
Behind the chambers of my heart
Bittersweet melodies plays aloud
I cannot escape -
That sweet summer rain
Which...
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Categories:
oscillating, devotion, emotions, gothic, grief,
Form: Lyric
On the wall stretched her shadow, like a dream lost in the deep night
...On the wall stretched her shadow, like a dream lost in the deep night,
An unknown secret, revealed only when light approaches timidly,
It lingered there, a silent paradox like a whisper on the lips...
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Categories:
oscillating, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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