The Emperor's New Clothes
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"The Emperor’s New Clothes"
We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying
like chrysallis books on a branch
of those higher deities we trust,
submerged, we are always...
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Categories:
panegyrics, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Trophy of Appreciation
... Here's to those who
Don't get the kudos they deserve:
Perhaps you're too humble,
To tuck panegyrics into your pockets,
Bu...
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Categories:
panegyrics, appreciation, encouraging, meaningful, people,
Form: Shape
My Music Box
...song without lyrics
sound of light panegyrics
rap 'til your soul drops....
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Categories:
panegyrics, music,
Form: Senryu
Twilight Totem
...chirping exhaust trails
of a streaming philharmonic
blue-winged panegyrics float in
on a breeze of murmurs
dazzling brainwaves prevail
upheavals of a dawning melody
sequels of...
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Categories:
panegyrics, appreciation, bird,
Form: Other
Start Sharing a Smile
...I'd be more than happy to endow my beam to you,
equally, I trust you'll impart with your own smirk too.
That is a proem forward into world harmony,
A prized seed with extremely useful ...
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Categories:
panegyrics, analogy, beauty, character, cheer
Form: Rhyme
The Pains of Motherlessness
...(a poem by Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele)
Sympathizing with every motherless child.
The Pain of Motherlessness
Is far beyond measure
Especially for a green mind.
Begins from the shock of an...
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Categories:
panegyrics, caregiving, childhood, death, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Petition
...Dear God,
You know my thoughts before I think them, you know my needs before I need them, and you know if my heart prays from a state of purity. I have approached the throne boldly and with con...
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Categories:
panegyrics, absence, anxiety, blessing, christian,
Form: I do not know?
Hypocrites
...Sunshine, clear visibility...
Youthful noon spies bridal eve
Naive groom lost in solemn dreams of knots
Leaving much still to the eagle's eye
And when the sun resumed, the bride was lost
Cloud...
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Categories:
panegyrics, anger, conflict, environment, life,
Form: Free verse
Buried Treasure
...All that I counted gain was but loss
(In the spots whereto Latency teems).
On cut, polished stones in fields of dreams,
Each pirate's loot was marked with a cross,
Where dreamers and their d...
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Categories:
panegyrics, adventure, art, death, devotion,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme