In the Shadow of the Chalkboard
In halls where silence speaks louder than words,
I stand, a beacon amidst the unseen.
Their gazes, sharp as unspoken swords,
Pierce through the facade, where I've always been.
Once, my voice resonated with pride,
Now, it's drowned by murmurs and disdain.
Yet, I endure, with dignity as my guide,
In a place where respect is hard to attain.
But within me, a
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Categories:
personal growth, august, bullying, discrimination, racism,
Form: Quatrain
as we metamorphose
as we metamorphose
sponsor : Unseeking
Seeker
submitted : 11/6/25
two points of a straight line
birth and death that need to
lightly kiss, after plunging depths
dissolve scars, burns from rock
fires, drawings in mud or deserts
falling through dream spaces
crossing grids ferocious
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Categories:
personal growth, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Running Through Life
I’m not running from my life
I just need this moment to think
In these moments, in this open space…get a firm grip
So many challenges, so many heartbreaks
The obstacles … the major dips
But I know I must keep moving on
There’s much life to be lived.
Past tears could create new oceans
This awesome power lies with me.
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Categories:
personal growth, growth, hope, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A New Year’s Ballad
When midnight tolls, the old doth fall,
And whispers soft, the past doth call.
A year has passed, with joy and grief,
A mix of dreams, a brief belief.
The days gone by, like shadows fleet,
A tapestry of love and defeat.
The laughter shared, the tears we've wept,
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Categories:
personal growth, class, encouraging, growth, motivation,
Form: Ballad
The Land of IF a song
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
[Soft Sultry female vocals]
[verse]
In the land of "If" somewhere this side of forgotten dreams
the world is very foggy and nothing is as it seems
There are no deadlines or plans
things just happen as they may
No new commitments made
nothing beyond today
The land of If is living in the moment
without working for your dreams
(nothing
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Categories:
personal growth, encouraging, growth, happiness,
Form: Lyric
RUNNING RACES CRACKING CODES
RUNNING RACES CRACKING CODES
No disgruntled dissonance
between dimensions
sliding down sigils
galaxies of glories
listening to lilies
lyricing to Lilith
flow of filaments
consenting to classify
eyes like echoes
running races
cracking codes so
that Source can
claim His-Her
crystals into
5D carols
©GhairoDanielsPoetry&
Song2024
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Categories:
personal growth, 12th grade, change, courage,
Form: Verse
Seeds of Greatness
Magical, mysterious, completely incomprehensible!
Is there anything more divine than a seed,
Any seed, large or small, any size at all?
Infused within its compact evolving time capsule
Is written all the instructions for the development
Of every form of life: human, animal, plant.
Every line of DNA delineates the perfect sequential
Unfoldment of beauty, symmetry, form and style.
The
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Categories:
personal growth, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hallways
Why must there always be a sacrifice souring the taste of something nice
Just a moment on the lips but a lifetime on the back shelf of the mind
Taking up space you can’t afford
You can barely pay your rent
Not enough to need to forgive but too much to forget
Maybe you are too kind
Wandering the hallways
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Categories:
personal growth, conflict, confusion, deep, growing
Form: Rhyme
Let Go
My pain doesn’t decorate me like precious gems
It’s a raggedy noose around my neck
That I can’t stop tugging
My scars aren’t displayed as badges of honour
They’re fetid rotted wounds
That I won’t stop picking at
My experiences weren’t lessons for growth
They’re barbs of poisonous shame
That I flagellate myself with daily
Mistakenly I thought that I’d let go
Confused, yet I
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Categories:
personal growth, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Kinswoman
I came to know a kinswoman recently.
Someone who spoke my words and used my tongue,
who saw my heart and called it her own.
We shared our deepest pains and ugliest thoughts.
We told no lies and spread out all our truths.
We wailed, we screamed, we swore, we wept
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Categories:
personal growth, appreciation, peace, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Personal Growth In the Extra Soft Pillow of Her Love
so wonderful
you swept me off of my feet
my heels are bleeding,
but the weight is lifted
you take my feet between your warm, reassuring hands,
and make them immediately better
you clean them
you dry them
you massage them
you pray for me
your tears merge with my tears
the most beautiful river is created and so easily it flows
so beautiful
you helped me get
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Categories:
personal growth, appreciation, for her, inspirational
Form: Free verse
My Words My Life
My words My Life.
.
My words are are not superficial
Or mere contrite
But my deepest thoughts and heart felt feelings
My mistress my love my life
.
Compelled to release both my joy and fustations
My conviction and therapy disclosing
Who I am my earnest desires and the man I be
From the overflowing colourful fountain of my heart
That
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Categories:
personal growth, beauty, career, celebration, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Portrait of a Lifetime
Trace an outline
blending shade into the gaps between
the teeth chewing on age-old leather
hungry for more
The empty spaces highlight
the contrast in a wrinkle
Pieces of skin burnt
hanging off the brow
disintegrate
dripping as if wet paint melting
beading like sweat or blood at the corner of the mouth
sticking the tongue out to taste
Repeated scratches make
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Categories:
personal growth, analogy, growth, imagery, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Sheep's Personal Growth
There the sheep is in the field
fully concentrated on it's task
head down eating it's green grass
growing up what else could one ask
This is what a sheep's supposed to do
so by it it'll grow large and strong
then it's owner will gain a good price
when selling it at market before too long
This is similar to a Christian's
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Categories:
personal growth, animal, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Personal Growth In Constant Continuum Until Finished
every detective tells me differently the same
every respective elder tells me the same differently
who should i believe but Him who is Mistake Free
investigating the prints of my life with an earthling opinionated but oblivious
reestimating the dints of each period unfinished and so brief and unrecognizable
not realizing the propaganda that printed is actually so dreadfully fragmented
another
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Categories:
personal growth, growth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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