White Rose
...Feet on land
Heart in clouds
Head lost in memories
I play tunes of regrets on my saxophone
And the nectar of love remains a craving
Pleas sent to the skies for an immortal existence
Laden w...
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Categories:
recounted, love,
Form: Free verse
crystal
...crystal
she held me captive with her fingers
nails rhythmically tapping on sand-colored stone
like a general marching to war
ready to go but wanting to stay
with my eyes i could tas...
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Categories:
recounted, desire, feelings, goodbye, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
As all shall stay, be it, so be it, without me
...I have condoned myself to suicide
To death
To feel acceptance, the burge of pain, enlightenment
All with immediacy
As if i was but a figment of a whorish imagination
I often find myself the st...
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Categories:
recounted, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories:
recounted, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme
The Mask of Black Spinel
...
Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.
I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching w...
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Categories:
recounted, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the mont...
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Categories:
recounted, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories:
recounted, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Innocenceoflove
...I prayed for you,
A thousand times, in a thousand ways.
But every single moment,
I recounted the days.
Never have I ever forgot to pray.
For which I tried so hard.
If only my eyes could say.
...
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Categories:
recounted, angel, butterfly, crush, cry,
Form: Rhyme
A Pacific Than Bauk Plus
...A high feVER
that ocCUR when
one NERves high too
AlcohoLICS
like their MIXed drinks
by KISSing floors
Three keep seCRET
Two is DEAD but
one SAID--not dead
On your ma...
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Categories:
recounted, analogy, imagination,
Form: Than-Bauk
Scarlet Roses
...
"But when you showed me what happiness looked like, I shook harder, sobbed, wailed and bawled; tore at your clothes, your perfect, perfect face, and said, "This could never be mine."" - the poet.
...
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Categories:
recounted, death, grief, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Elegy
A Whiter Shade of Pale
...This is not for any contest especially since I like better versions than the one sung by Glenn Hughes which is not much to my liking. Furthermore, this is more in the region of commenting on the son...
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Categories:
recounted, appreciation, feelings, song,
Form: Narrative
Aja
...From the valley of a lone Victor,
Hope bloomed on mornings dew,
Carrying promises of a brighter sun,
In echoes of joy and persistent smile.
Here he comes, draped In night’s shroud ,
Messenger ...
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Categories:
recounted, death,
Form: Free verse
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories:
recounted, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
A Whisper of Hope
...Tick...
Time has moved on
but I’m standing still...
No matter where I go, I can never run away.
Gray, gray, gray, it’s all gray, everything, gray.
Tock...
They say you're at peace now,
so, I'm...
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Categories:
recounted, 12th grade, death, funeral,
Form: Free verse
October's Warm Grace
...October's tender embrace was so real,
Autumnal colors create a striking scene.
Every leaf is a work of art with a vivid color,
Nature's glorious cue makes my heart sing.
Pumpkins exude a lovely...
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Categories:
recounted, appreciation, beauty, blessing, nature,
Form: Kyrielle
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