Global Warming 2100
...The mountains wept.
The skies moaned.
The soil trembled.
The trees whispered their last green prayers—
"Man has destroyed us... alone."
He who adds no value
takes all,
then leaves nothing—
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Categories:
rafts, abuse, death, fear, home,
Form: Free verse
A SPARK ESCAPED FROM HELL
...My life is a nightmare that fate embellishes with scenes of horror.
I was born in the bowels of misery, my heart crushed by rage and terror.
I know the stench of battlefields, the taste of a child ...
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Categories:
rafts, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
the odd narrative
...The Odd Narrative
Steamed up the window, my finger I paint a landscape,
Mountain, forest, and lake; the peak cries into
the lake becomes a vast ocean,
where trees made into wooden rafts floats
M...
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Categories:
rafts, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: ABC
The Shape of Absence
...And I remember the rain before it ever started—
the smell of asphalt humming like old vinyl static under my ribs.
You were talking about birds, maybe,
or death, or the last time your mother called...
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Categories:
rafts, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Rafts and Wreths
...Ity had become odvious that her lack of attention of my concerns might have meant she was losing interest in me
She had aligned herself with sevral known cockblockers in my family. That had consider...
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Categories:
rafts, culture, music,
Form: Ballad
Rainy Renaissance
...I go to the fair
and I see many crafts
My brother didn't really care
It started to rain I thought we needed rafts
Then came the thunder
And the women in dresses
started to shudder
everyon...
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Categories:
rafts, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
October Nips
...Busty shaped and large of hip
the busy winds of October
buffet my brain
within its whistling cave.
Around the shoulders
of every lumpy molehill
taverns and tankards
bloom in a russet corner ...
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Categories:
rafts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the twilight of thoughts, dice dance on an invisible board
...In the twilight of thoughts, dice dance on an invisible board,
Whispers of hope stumble through the trembling fingers of fate,
Echoes of lost victories clash against the walls of an abandoned citad...
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Categories:
rafts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the labyrinth of time, we weave webs of hope from threads of light and shadows
...In the labyrinth of time, we weave webs of hope from threads of light and shadows,
Wandering souls in the ocean of existence, clinging to dreams like life rafts,
We breathe the illusion of progress...
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Categories:
rafts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The making of a villain
...How to mold a villain?
They say it takes a village to raise a child,
Yet with a whisper, a villain can be styled.
the steps are simple,
Tell them gravity's grip is no chain,
Assure them they c...
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Categories:
rafts, abuse, evil, hurt, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Rooming with the Young
...We dwelt together,
one hand on a door handle.
Keeping rooms --- a semi-settled living,
parents still squatting in our heads,
rent due spaces,
red buses passing below or above,
according to what...
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Categories:
rafts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Yesterday, In A Parking Lot
...Watch out,
the corners of our eyes are in danger
of being nakedly exposed.
Evening dropped out of the sky
a lot quicker today.
A slap-dashing gush of last minutes,
as shoppers charged around ...
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Categories:
rafts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
SONG TO MOON
...SONG TO MOON
Moon ! Light of Shadows
Luminosity of strengthening black bows
tears of trite nights
and blundering blights
tears of a trillion thorny fli...
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Categories:
rafts, 12th grade, beautiful, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Seeing Rafts of Fire Ants
...During Hurricane Harvey resourceful fire ants stayed alive
clumping together on waterways, forming a raft, not one dive
I saw them and my hair stood up and I let out a scream
Knowing how dangerous...
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Categories:
rafts, animal,
Form: Rhyme
A Brain Is Storming
...riding on
superluminal rafts
the supernatural rapscallions
descend with
delirious determination
into
deceptive diversion
observing
too many indeterminists
doing nothing
with t...
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Categories:
rafts, dark, humorous, society, space,
Form: Free verse
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