PRIDE OF A POET
...More than words, but experiences
Through turmoil of intimidation
Dignity of Character
Storms that only a Poet knows
Story ethics
Dialog prelude
Voices shouting
Emotions unleashed
Sentences le...
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Categories:
push through, appreciation, care, creation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Demons I Fight
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There are demons I fight
That live inside of my head
No one knows that they exist
I choose to hide them instead
They torment my heart
And they torment my mind
There is no sense of peace...
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Categories:
push through, angst, betrayal, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Passage
...If you can breathe through it
You can get through it
If you can get through it
You can rise
If you can breathe through it
You can see your way through it
If you can see your wa...
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Categories:
push through, confidence, courage, growth, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
My Spirit
...My Spirit
Beneath the sunlit waves where my dreams drift and dive,
A silent shadow glides—a force both fierce and alive.
The great white shark, my silent kin, moves through the endless blue,
It...
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Categories:
push through, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Sideways
...You practice and you train,
you wrack your damn brain,
you push through the pain,
it still goes
sideways.
You’re up before dawn,
give it guts and brawn,
till the last ounce is gone,
it stil...
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Categories:
push through, endurance, military, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Serve me up
...**Serve me up.
Let me go.
I chose this life a long time ago.
Blinded by anxiety, my mind was killing me.
What am I to do when I have nothing left to choose?
The pain in me runs deep. ...
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Categories:
push through, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A cup of longing
...Your coffee cup still sits
on the kitchen table—
the one you slammed down
that Tuesday morning,
saying *I can't do this anymore*,
coffee splashing across
the crossword we'd started together.
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Categories:
push through, cute love,
Form: Free verse
A Strong Woman
...She rises with the morning sun,
Unfinished battles, never done.
With quiet strength and fearless grace,
The fire of purpose on her face.
She walks through storms without a sound,
Her dreams ar...
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Categories:
push through, blessing, cancer, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Along With The Thunder
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Weightlessness
My soul floats "along with the thunder,"
Saturated with impending rain,
Scattered back throughout the earth,
Lost among ancient ruins and countless seas.
I awaken, feeling...
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Categories:
push through, deep, gothic, grave, imagery,
Form: Free verse
War Machine
...War Machine
Get ready to bring down the house.
The politicians took down the barriers.
Weare running out of time.
Missiles are flying.
Wehave lost our independence.
Put up your fist.
Th...
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Categories:
push through, war,
Form: Rhyme
Constraint's Creativity
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Boundaries defined,
Freedom finds a focused path,
New blooms push through cracks.
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Categories:
push through, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Invisible
...The pain increases every day
bit by bit, I have no say
I do what I can to ease it all
but it’s been a real long-haul
from cramping feet to head in a vice
swollen fingers, no paradise
aching h...
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Categories:
push through, endurance, health, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...3/4/25
"Time"
People often rat pack
Quick to have the last laugh
It's a sad fact
That we never could get past that
Time is something we can never have back
Few heed the forecast
Torches p...
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Categories:
push through, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Emerging From The Woods Onto A High Prominence
...The trees crowd in along the broken trail,
sunlight tries to push through, but mostly fails,
straight trunks spread out and obscure distant gaze,
there’s eyes out there, watching, afraid they’re p...
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Categories:
push through, animal, appreciation, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Civil Rights Era 1960s
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In the light of the South where the sun burns bright,
We march for freedom, we march for right.
With each step forward, we push through pain,
Dreaming of a world where love will reign.
The ...
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Categories:
push through, freedom, political, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
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