FRAGILE VESSEL Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back Contest
...FRAGILE VESSEL
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Poem written for and submitted to “Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back” Poetry Contest, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, sponsor, August 11, 2025....
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Categories:
reconstructing, 12th grade, courage, truth,
Form: Free verse
In the depths of my soul, an ocean of tears struggles
...In the depths of my soul, an ocean of tears struggles,
Walls of thoughts collapsing like sandcastles,
I look at myself in the mirror and see a shadow of what I once was,
A landscape of melancholy ...
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Categories:
reconstructing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the West, stories are heard, shining at the threshold of a new era
...In the West, stories are heard, shining at the threshold of a new era,
That we can mold again the raw clay of human nature,
Reconstructing from the ashes of time, a dream Eden, fresh and new.
As i...
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Categories:
reconstructing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tambourine Tears
...Tambourine tears fall with such grace
They actually make music on my face
A festival of salt on blackened skin
Pickled smile teasing the audience again
Bitterness is an acquired fruit
After fast...
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Categories:
reconstructing, angst, appreciation, courage,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Is the Master Potter
...Jesus is the Master Potter
By Franklin Price
09/14/2023
Jesus, is the master potter
We, the followers His Clay
He molds us into shining lamps
Reconstructing day by day
He lays His hands up...
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Categories:
reconstructing, celebration, christian, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Prosperity Grantor
...April 26 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 26-28
Key Verse – 2 Chronicles 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God:...
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Categories:
reconstructing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Vanishing Spirit
...Time reconstructing the construction
cell by cell eroding,
trying to remember something
something beyond my grasp,
There is a vagueness
a shaft of light
Through a darkened door.
a transi...
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Categories:
reconstructing, memory, time, universe,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Kintsugi
...when her shadow cracked
fragments entered her mind
shards of false gold
pierced façade and persona
left her in pieces
splintered images and illusions
the mask had been held tight
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Categories:
reconstructing, courage,
Form: Free verse
Science
...Science is knowledge, magnificence pansophism!
Extreme erudition of unmatched intellect,
in all its compelling branches;
The beautiful and dynamic achievement of flight.
A kite flying with ...
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Categories:
reconstructing, science,
Form: Rhyme
Our Lady
...Our Lady?
You are our lady
of grace.
And now your dress?Is flames.?
The beauty of your sunken dome from a drone
Is a poem in itself.
Written by us and
Destroyed by chaos.?
This is what we...
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Categories:
reconstructing, 12th grade, beauty, christian,
Form: Ode
Fragile
...Fragile
She's quite brittle
Please, handle her with care
Lest she drops and shatters like glass
She's one of a kind; one in a million
There is no reconstructing her
She's emotionally
Destructi...
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Categories:
reconstructing, feelings, simile, woman,
Form: Rictameter
Did You Ever Notice
...Did you ever notice
our vampire legends
are almost always patriarchal,
sometimes even princely
and excruciatingly royalist,
elitist?
While witches plot and evil plan
in coven craven circles
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Categories:
reconstructing, courage, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
A Tribute To Grenfell Tower
...I am a poet, an artist, a writer
A lover of humanity
This poem I write is about the Grenfell tower story.
Kensington,Kensington
What have you done
Blood stains and tears are scrolled upon your...
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Categories:
reconstructing, anger, bereavement, betrayal, class,
Form: Free verse
Immigrants Gone Native
...I suppose it isn't rather nice
to think of us this way,
but to the squirrels
and the trees,
the robins and the grasses,
human natures are Earth's great transitioning immigrants
on this block
w...
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Categories:
reconstructing, earth, environment, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Hypocrisy In White
...I am reading
"Democracy in Black"
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
but continue reconstructing this title
"Hypocrisy in Only White."
Because
when I let my memory
look back to my own self-interests in...
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Categories:
reconstructing, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
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