Into Dust
...The briny tears have dried
The sounding knells are stilled
The grieving crowd, dispersed
The parting pain, allayed
Benumbed lie the dead
Beneath the marble vaults
Bereft of power and prowes...
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Categories:
quest after, death, destiny, fate,
Form: Blank verse
My Futile Search
...In my quest after happiness
I strayed looking it here and there
It remained elusive, often out of reach
As the pot of gold at the tip of a rainbow,
I looked to the skies seeking it...
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Categories:
quest after, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse
Wrong World
...~Body
A Debilitating cage I’m not permitted to escape,
Thoughts of blades, craving the slice and scrape.
Jokes and giggles echo from friendly and unknown lips,
I stop eating and lay down th...
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Categories:
quest after, cry, emotions, life, mental
Form: Rhyme
Quarks - a Pleiades
...Quickly, dear scientists!
quest after their secrets!
Quench curious scholars'
queries before these motes,
quarrelsome particles,
quietly die in the
quantum cosmos beyond.
a "Q" pleiades...
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Categories:
quest after, creation, science, space,
Form: Pleiades
Mahatma Gandhi Near Quotes
...(A double Rhyme Royal)
Freedom is not worth the having…if not,
it includes the freedom to make mistakes.
Love the sinner, though not the sinner’s plot.
Give freedom of expre...
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Categories:
quest after, dedication, freedom,
Form: Rhyme Royal
The Gods of An Artificial Religion
...i.
They're watching us,
waiting for us to betray ourselves
and show them
where our hollowness lies
so that they might offer us
something to fill
or cure it.
ii.
They stalk us from ...
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Categories:
quest after, imagination
Form: Free verse