It Was All an Illusion
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All a mirage, an aberrant illusion
acceptance in America
professionally, socially
we even became sought-after marriage partners…
Educated people seeme...
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Categories:
rebelled, america, farewell, history, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Ice Cream Rebellion in the Sun
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Written: June 27, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
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Mirage suggested on the run
"Hydrate or be well-done, my son"
The ice cream rebelled,
The...
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Categories:
rebelled, appreciation, fun,
Form: Limerick
Stones
...What is the stone for, Jacob?
Surely the Lord is in this place,
But I did not realize it!
I saw His stairway in my dream,
This is the Gate of Heaven!
I will set this stone as sacred,
And...
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Categories:
rebelled, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Subterfuge
...Detecting deception,
our eye nonjudgmental
and blissful heart tranquil
but saw a weary soul,
slowly trudging uphill.
Detecting deception,
in a drop that rebelled,
we but saw its soul’s ligh...
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Categories:
rebelled, introspection, judgement, love, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Light Up My Fantasy
..."The essence of art is to recapture the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child."
~Romare Bearden
she had been reaching for all the w...
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Categories:
rebelled, art, creation, dream, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Old Ugly Wicked Queen
...There was once a Queen
Who sat on her throne
Behind closed doors
Giving orders, abusing and casting spells
The staff rebelled and chucked her in hell
Where she remains still spitting poison.
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Categories:
rebelled, abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse
A Little West Indian River History
..."There's a river meandering through the mind,"
older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge
over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away
from a warring Englishman behind
absconding by canoe ...
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Categories:
rebelled, city, history, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
HOWL IF YOU LOVE ME!
...It started out with one good boy,
A prehistoric, funny, little plushie toy,
His name was Gary, quite refined,
A murder floof with teeth aligned (yikes)!
They dressed him up in bowtie class,
He p...
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Categories:
rebelled, humor, political,
Form: Lyric
The Falling Away
...The Falling Away
An angel that rebelled.
Had it all but failed.
Envy of the most high.
The king of all lies.
Rules over a lawless society.
Don’t follow his ways.
Cancer bleeding in the ...
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Categories:
rebelled, sin,
Form: Rhyme
My Children You Will Be Ok
...Let me share some truth.
All grownups were once youths.
We rebelled against our parents too!
All grown women and men.
Are grown up versions of your friends.
We did the same things that you do.
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Categories:
rebelled, 8th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Purify
...I’ll scrape this mud off of my heels -
That’s caked from years of trudging.
And soak these wounds in orange peels -
To persuade scabs into budging.
This bar of soap, my sword of choice -
Will ...
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Categories:
rebelled, analogy, anxiety, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Demons in Disguise
...When Satan sought to deceive Eve,
he conceived an ingenious plan.
Of all the creatures he could choose,
the subtle serpent was his ruse.
When Eve did hear the serpent speak,
this surely did he...
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Categories:
rebelled, christian, evil, god, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Pointing Accusing Fingers
... total fiction
I heard the words repeated on the news
so sick of them that my mind rebelled...
"Doge's plan and Trump commands
the Constitution should be banned.
Hell to that Chief! Th...
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Categories:
rebelled, humor,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise like a poem
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I sat by a boulder, then an image grew
A goddess with a pen hovered over the stone
She said I'm a muse, with a mission for you
To write a song titled "sunrise like a poem."
I said "nothing rh...
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Categories:
rebelled, art, creation, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Echoes of Chains A Poem on Colonization in Malaysia
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Once, the rivers ran free and bold,
Through emerald lands, rich with gold.
Mountains whispered to the sky,
Under the watchful, sovereign eye.
Then came ships with foreign flags,
Tongues of s...
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Categories:
rebelled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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