Water :The Divine Marvel
...The little divine droplets of water bedeck
The shoots and leaves, all around spread
Over the tract and the rough rocky bed ,
As the soft seemly drizzles at the day-break
Infuse an enlivening...
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Categories:
punitive, water,
Form: Lyric
Bloodlust with'n Perversion
...With present great, O’ gracious hate
O’ hand in heart, neither tripp’d nor fear’d
Doth thine conquer, by thine of corrup’d lips
O’ Sicker thy pour’d thine sicken canst
Thy chanc’d on seated hear...
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Categories:
punitive, allusion, children, dream, romance,
Form: Free verse
Grief, Loss, Who Do I Trust
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My grief is a tide that rises and falls without warning, sweeping away the familiar shores of my being.
I write to you not as a poet but as a fellow bearer of sorrow, for the shining sun has dim...
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Categories:
punitive, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pauline Hanson
...Justice?? From some ( w e f ) sympathetic civil servant
Named stewart..' I see no reflection of it. Just a punitive
Ruling 'of lawfare' upon Pauline.' Who admittedly in my
View should study more u...
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Categories:
punitive, anti bullying, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Narrative
To The Dad I Once Knew
...* Note My dad passed away today, a little over seven months since my mom passed. After a thirty year estrangement my dad and I reconciled when mom died. I figured I'd write this today, while everythi...
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Categories:
punitive, 1st grade, death, father,
Form: Elegy
Soul Fulfillment
...Written: November 03, 2023
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Beyond the misty shades, there is peace.
Irreconcilable with retaining inner ease
Noshing prefer...
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Categories:
punitive, analogy, bereavement, death, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Path of Justice - a Poetic Journey
...Written: September 09, 2023
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In the area of dominion, where elitism wields
Altruism flickers as a beam of light in the f...
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Categories:
punitive, analogy, appreciation, change, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Appropriately Polite Company
...It seems maniacal,
Black Rabbit Hole easy
kinda sleazy
to sexualize every thought
And, yet,
all too easy
to desexualize
to decontextualize
multisensory feelings
deep and widely organic
r...
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Categories:
punitive, culture, dark, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Hired a Wrong Lawyer
...Between us now a big dam:
When one weighs it: big gram!
I've just declined his fat ram;
Today, returned his fat yam
And it was a blow - A Bam!
No more his sweets in mouth cram
Arab against Uncl...
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Categories:
punitive, animal, birth, career, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Mom Is a Daredevil Too
...The teacher was irritated, using her angry voice.
He yelled at me and hurt a kindergartener.
She wanted me to do this that and the other.
Things I never do as the counselor.
I am not punitive, an...
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Categories:
punitive, family,
Form: Narrative
When You Forgo Your Purpose
...BAT planted many seeds that brought him a great harvest
For which many held his ideology with august interest
With claims that Jagaban dealt with those political jagabats
Who knows little or nothi...
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Categories:
punitive, political,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
...Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...
As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a
psychologically checkered past
loom large recalling
tragic storied days of mein...
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Categories:
punitive, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Too Far Gone
...Among the unfortunates in life I’ve known
Are some who’ve slipped between the cracks,
Most are they who have their wild oats sown.
Practices in adolescence still make me groan,
In a...
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Categories:
punitive, addiction, corruption, life, perspective,
Form: Villanelle
The Tree
...When I look at a tree
enchanted I am by
grand height and width,
luxurious foliage, plush branches
on display – somewhat jealous
of apparent supportive appeal,
birds that sing and play in t...
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Categories:
punitive, humorous, hyperbole, imagination, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Omnipotent God
...God* --- omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent
verily reached down to me
offering His friendship and fellowship.
With trust in the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...
...I am endowed by faith ...
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Categories:
punitive, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: List
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