Giving up
...Tonight red will hit floor, the soul will become one with the wind, The silent screams will halt and become the thank god of everyone around.
Tonight your wish will be granted and the ashes will soo...
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Categories:
outweighing, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Beacons
...I stand before the ocean
a lone beacon
enduring the crash
of relentless waves
absorbing their hidden secrets
Weighted whispered woes
and carried calls for compassion
wear on fragile shoul...
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Categories:
outweighing, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Outweighing the Chill
...Hushed in a fugue
of Alpaca wool and rising resin
he sits on a stump
the relic legs of a mighty giant
hewn beneath the axeman's blade
its ageless corpse decays
sending up those honey note...
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Categories:
outweighing, absence, appreciation, gender, nature,
Form: Romanticism
You'Re All I Need
...
Melting the dawn with eyes
Soulful eyes roaming – piercing the light,
Promising the night, erased from sight,
Soon bleeding its shadows through the rising
Sun’s beautiful, healing t...
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Categories:
outweighing, christian, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Feeling Green
...I see with new eyes now
why you needed me
to be red
and not so green,
possibly obscene
And why now
my greenness has escaped
into your undeniable public domain
My lack of straight-up red
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Categories:
outweighing, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Moment Within the Mood
...The aesthetic of the autocratic effigy of directing the positivity of proclivity in the nature, the stir of it , that grit in your teeth this life gives , that digestive hindsight. Almost lost like ...
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Categories:
outweighing, courage, emotions, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse
I Knew Her Once
...I knew her once,
But it was a long time ago.
Yet she knew me better,
Than my own ego.
I knew her once,
With few memories to pass.
Though her beauty and elegance,
Remained wit...
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Categories:
outweighing, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Light Powers
...Lately,
I too often experience
anger begets anger
to also remember
love begets love.
This same appositional binary
appears in retributive criminal justice codes
culturally outweighing
resto...
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Categories:
outweighing, anger, caregiving, community, health,
Form: Political Verse
Compassion That Reconnects
...HeartChoice,
the Why
of my prayers,
invocations,
anxieties,
deep learning anticipations
Music of Integrity
throughout compassion's timeless
walking wounded prayers
Felt inside Win/Lose ...
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Categories:
outweighing, education, health, inspirational love,
Form: Political Verse
Obsession
...Obsession
Obsession with "O's"
Oh, obsession’s obfuscating oligarchy
Oceans of oblivion
Outrage in ostentatious obsession
Overrun in hurricanes named obdurate and obstinate
Overtures of oxi...
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Categories:
outweighing, angst,
Form: Free verse
Sad
...Sad, the poor excuses we have for
leadership in our great nation. Sad,
the dissipation, corruption, occupation
by self-serving, soulless, power-hungry
madmen and woman, who have sold their
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Categories:
outweighing, freedom, heartbroken, history, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Healing Soil
...Healthy Earth soil
restoring therapeutic justice
for contented health-seeking systems,
peacefully compassioning
nonviolently communicating souls,
Wanting empowerment
and empathic enlightenmen...
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Categories:
outweighing, caregiving, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
True Worth
...What has no price
holds little value
Sweat and tears
—outweighing gold
(The New Room: April, 2021)...
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Categories:
outweighing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Singing With the Earthday Choir
...The Assembly fills
with naturally optimistic,
yet kinda predative, ego-voiced ecologists
ready to discontinously
self-righteously prey
on hopelessly reactionary rightwing antifeminists,
To ...
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Categories:
outweighing, community, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Eclipsed
...Twenty five years
Of togetherness
A pretty long duration
Doesn’t it call for some celebration?”
She looks at him for approval
“Of course, it does
But there’s the eclipse
Demanding austerity
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Categories:
outweighing, betrayal, marriage, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
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