the way home
...The way home2025-04-21
Good afternoon
I'm back to where my fortune began
the fortune I betrayed by moving away
not for any reason that I momentarily
thought I could find an easier life
a pl...
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Categories:
preferable, age, april, birth,
Form: ABC
A Preferable Blonde
...Nearer My God To Thee
eight musicians
lost to the sea
the ship went down, unsinkable
forty minutes to three.
Critics will stoop
so low as to blame
the ghost of
Marilyn Monroe,
accuse her...
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Categories:
preferable, abuse, addiction, appreciation, humanity,
Form: Free verse
If ye benevolent reader count yourself as a wise married man such as m
...If ye benevolent reader count yourself as a wise married man such as me...
(truer words never spoken nor written)
take my word and decline
and absolutely refuse to take masterly crafted bait
vide...
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Categories:
preferable, absence, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
Voltaire Translations 2 by Michael R Burch
...These are translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific writer who produce...
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Categories:
preferable, french, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Douglas Murray
...Douglas Murray
On various YouTube programs
I have taken an interest in his opinions
about Islam in Europe, and I share
his pessimistic opinions
He is a person of great interest
always well...
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Categories:
preferable, allah, anti bullying, arabic,
Form: Free verse
mosaics
...Everyone I've ever loved
Has left their mark on my soul
On my body
On my mind.
Every time I speak
Everything I type
Every song I listen to
Everything
Without my loved ones
Who am I?
Withou...
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Categories:
preferable, depression, identity, love, mental
Form: Free verse
My wish
...Aren’t stars meant to shine for us when we kiss,
holding hands and staring at the ever-beautiful moon.
Maybe they’re waiting for our ballon…
With our wish written on it, living life with a bliss.
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Categories:
preferable, love,
Form: Lyric
I'm still sane
...I'm trying my hardest to portray
That through all this sadness I'm still sane
But my mind is racing, I can't break free
Will someone please rescue me
I'm sick of feeling the way I do
But the...
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Categories:
preferable, anger, betrayal, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse
I love Soldiers Trucks and Sand
...What do you want to be when you grow up?
Other girls were saying “princess, ballerina, secretary, nurse, and teacher.”
I said, “I want to be a race car who owns a fire truck.”
None of the laughing...
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Categories:
preferable, humor,
Form: Free verse
Open Poetry 9 - Not Worthy of Life
...An outcome more preferable than becoming a slave.
Peace beyond dreaming on the way to my grave.
Accused and found guilty, I was not remanded.
Inflicting retributive punishment is what I was handed...
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Categories:
preferable, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Replacement Life
...A childhood summer
leaks away, taking with it
its raft of unanchored memories.
Thoughts grasps at the cold hands
of the never-was.
Time and age question.
The long buried emerge,
a would-be...
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Categories:
preferable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Death Fish in Key West
...Scientists describe it as an event
In the hot paradise of Key West
Condos festivals hotels
Dancing feet under bells of lights
I’ve sung Margaritaville there
Myself
Beneath the docks
Pan ...
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Categories:
preferable, betrayal, earth, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Tomb
...“I feel my life so empty. It is preferable to fill a tomb to being doomed to live out a life that is empty” ~ By Poet.
Darkness encompasses my space.
My future is seen so bleak wher...
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Categories:
preferable, angst, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
The Heart
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Written: February 19, 2024
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The dam, in which
the tissue residue is present
has a saline ecosystem
despite the dryness
It is st...
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Categories:
preferable, analogy, appreciation, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse
Alarm, if not smoke is there, anymore!
...The ceiling fan orbiting, on and on
reminded after many spectacular nights,though,not this.
Pulchritude perhaps begins before Paul care.
The window pen hardly opened these days.
reminded me, t...
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Categories:
preferable, desire,
Form: Imagism
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