What The Fire Didn’t Take
The power of grief can consume you—?not all at once,?
but like water swelling inside a sinking ship.
?Quiet at first,?
until you're drowning in the silence.
It doesn’t ask permission.
?It wraps around your ribs,?
pressing against your lungs?
until breath becomes a labor
?and joy feels like betrayal.
I’ve felt it—?
its cold hands gripping my ankles,
?dragging me into the undercurrent
?of mornings
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Categories:
rebuild, dark, emotions, grief, journey,
Form: Free verse
You'll rebuild your Castle
Empower yourself.
You'll rebuild your Castle
By Michelle Morris
29/03/2025
When your Castle has crumbled
And you're lying in the rubble
Remember that you're Powerful
You can overcome your troubles
When your Heart is hurting
Your friends and family have betrayed you
Remember that you have Angels
They surround and protect your Truth
You are never forgotten
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Categories:
rebuild, angel, dream, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Echos To Ashes
Bittersweet, or just a hard pill to swallow?
I’ve done this to myself, haven’t I?
Watching it crumble around me,
Piece by piece,
Like everything I once held so tight,
Now slipping through my fingers,
Flames to ashes,
Ashes to dust.
I know what I’ve done.
I know it all too well.
Yet, I feel nothing.
Not even the searing burns on my skin,
From the fires
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Categories:
rebuild, anxiety, deep, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
The Burnt Molt of a Molten Phoenix' Rising
Its been a show of force since my ancestors first swam over the umbilical.
A strain of Loathing rings in our ears, A dog-whistle held by my personal demon, it's engraved with my name.
I smile when when the frequencies pain grazed my inner ear, and tickles my cerebellum in a way I'd deem inappropriate.
It makes deaths
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Categories:
rebuild, addiction, chocolate, friendship, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Resilience
Yes, you have fallen.
It felt like a defeat.
In time, you realize
You still have the breath of life.
Calamity has no victory.
What felt like an enormous blow
Brought you to your knees.
Determination fills your bones,
Resilience, your soul.
Broken, but not shattered,
Injured, but surviving,
Gather every ounce of life you have,
Take a deep breath,
Say a silent prayer and
Proceed!
Chanté Walker
January 18, 2024
“If
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Categories:
rebuild, confidence, depression,
Form: Free verse
Tear Down This Wall and Rebuild It Instead
Tear down this wall
And put an end to this
Cold War
Said the then
President of the U.S.A
Ronald Reagan
To the U.S.S.R leader
Premier Gorbachev
Only for much later on
Once the Iron Curtain
Had eventually gone
Mr Putin
Said
And rebuild it along our border
With Ukraine again instead
And for the grand opening ceremony
invite and book both
The Hoff
&
Comrade Roger
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Categories:
rebuild, political,
Form: Free verse
Rebuild Together
let us all
together stand tall
we can build love wall
we are the weather
we are the good
it under stood
if we work hard
we can with a plan
REBUILD TOGETHER
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Categories:
rebuild, adventure, anger,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Let's Rebuild Jamaica
Take me back to the days of old,
And rich legacy that worth more than gold.
It took an entire village to raise a child,
Where they were free to roam and be wild.
The rivers and streams were free of pollution,
And the white sand beaches were for the citizens of the nation.
Now our people have been
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Categories:
rebuild, celebration, character, confidence, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Rebuild Your Border
My heart goes weary; shrinking,
I can't think right.
My thoughts float sinking,
It won't go filming delight.
When all we build for all,
Break into pieces and flew in dust.
We wish but it is time for rebirth!
The inner dinner of the believer,
Is a threat to standard.
The outer doubter of the sinner,
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Categories:
rebuild, 1st grade, art, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
This Old House
In this house, I am swimming
in a mud puddle, somedays
with my arms tight around you
We backstroke
In my house there is dust
settled overtop the daily cares
swept aside in conversations
as
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Categories:
rebuild, dream, growth, home,
Form: Free verse
The Next Nest
claws contracted tightly
squeeze something dropped
on the forest floor
like a dark metallic tweezers
the pointed beak catches a branch
while red and nervous eyes
look everywhere
he turns the body
opens immense wings
and in a rustle of brown feathers
fly towards the treetops
at nightfall, the figure rises and disappears
fading among dark leaves
he rebuilds his castel
his refuge
his palace
his next nest
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Categories:
rebuild, bird, home, tree,
Form: Free verse
Fragments
As gentle as summer rain,
Your love refreshed me.
Time was spent, memories built, secrets shared;
Until one night we lost our grip on love’s translucent game.
As fragile as a crystal glass our new love shattered as it fell from our grasp.
Too soon we tried to touch it, hold it, claim it, as our own.
Too soon for it
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Categories:
rebuild, blessing, engagement, hope, romantic
Form: Free verse
Rebuild
life can be retreat
make your up beat
mabe down hill
at a stand still
get up
not off the bad stuff
and fight do it right
REBUILD
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Categories:
rebuild, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
Baby Lets Rebuild
we can do this
say this fist
with the lords will
we can make a stand
and
REBUILD
BABY LETS REBUILD
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Categories:
rebuild, caregiving,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rebuild With You
It's from the ground up, that we have to rebuild. Because our love is not dead but the trust has been killed. It's blood was spilled and it was laid to rest. So how do you rebuild, when no trust is left? I guess you have to start over, forgive and forget. Let go of
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Categories:
rebuild, love, poems, poetry, together,
Form: Prose
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