The Girl Lost To Time
...She was like a bull
in the sunshine—
angry one moment,
then happy the next.
That’s what Olivia was:
the way she was with
everyone.
A short series of well-
regulated emotional
stability, ...
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Categories:
outbursts, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Rats and Roses
...I don’t have my learners permit.
I have had to be the adult my whole life.
I have had to tend to their outbursts and tantrums.
I have survived all their rat runs
I’ve always told myself it’s an...
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Categories:
outbursts, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Its all green, yet no beans'
...Observe the rise of the virulent greens' attention demanding; with outbursts obscene' the desire to relegate
All humanity' a great lust to destroy; time proven means, in
A mad push to the bottom f...
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Categories:
outbursts, conflict, education,
Form: Free verse
Rise Above The Clouds
...
Dark demons tore her from within
Pulling her downward into spiraling depression
Shadows of memories long ago
That crumbled her to cracked pieces
Everyone was talking about her
Or so it seemed
...
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Categories:
outbursts, dark, depression, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
USA IN DANGER
...
The Buzzed United States
are thus stirred up due to
the crazy ramblings of the crazy drone
and the outbursts of the crazy MOSKA...
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Categories:
outbursts, allusion, analogy, conflict, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
...Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restle...
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Categories:
outbursts, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Olive Branch in One Hand
...
olive branch in one hand
weapon in the other
hoping for peace with his brother
eager to open his heart
stepping with caution
lest a new war he start
ance...
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Categories:
outbursts, grief, life, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
the only love i know
...he has always been my death –
he has always been my fear –
doors banging,
plates flying and breaking,
shouting, conniving,
lying to save my face from fists,
the only love I know –
the kickin...
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Categories:
outbursts, abuse, anger,
Form: Lyric
Maybe
...No one knows how sad you are
Till it's gone way too far.
Till it comes out as anger
Then you become the monster...
Maybe, just maybe, instead of looking at me like I'm a piece of $#!^
Maybe se...
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Categories:
outbursts, anger, family,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship is True Love
...I used to be convinced
that I had never experienced true love
i’d never made it that far across the bridge
spent 6574 days as just one body
But then I remember
the laughter, the splendid sum...
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Categories:
outbursts, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
autumn
...Autumn Haiku - Set of Three
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
autumn
whirlwinds of splendor
autumn breathes umber blizzards ~
crimson cloudbursts whorl
gusts of gold t...
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Categories:
outbursts, autumn, celebration, color, storm,
Form: Haiku
War with Tears
...Why am I crying right now?
Why is my soul trying to sing tunes that my mind fails to interpret?
As my heart sinks in deep melancholy, my mind remains perplexed.
My heart yearns to b...
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Categories:
outbursts, character, cry, emotions, how
Form: Free verse
Autumn Anguish
...
September crashes through the seas,
Summer’s depths, carrying my dreams
Taking my regrets, with the breeze,
Breathing light across the tide’s streams.
October paints it’s fierce display,
...
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Categories:
outbursts, angst, autumn, beautiful, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye
...You cannot see what I hold in my heart
Your hate and your fear drive us apart.
My loving pleading eyes beckon you to see.
In outbursts of pain, you beg to let you be.
My time is laboriously s...
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Categories:
outbursts, bereavement, cancer, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection of Rain
...
October Rain
Is it
simply a case of precipitation,
moist warm air condensation or
are they God’s tears showering us with love,
as rain washes away our sorrows,
in the hope of bright...
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Categories:
outbursts, analogy, metaphor, rain,
Form: Free verse
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