I C E : ODE TO SELF
...[Sponsor : Crystol Woods
Placed 5th in Contest]
I C E : Ode to Self
few Hearts can fancy dress their
nakedness in icicle Presence
fewer minds will slip into cemetery’s dusk
soul...
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Categories:
rectitude, allusion, character, color, courage,
Form: Ode
A Friendly Reminder For Our Nation
...Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Americans, and the world:
In the crucible of revolution, our forefathers etched their pledge—
a bold testament inscribed not solely in ink,
but in the quiet, r...
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Categories:
rectitude, america, remember, slam, society,
Form: Spoken Word
D Y S T O P I A
...[Perhaps this is apart of my twisted delusions? Oh, mundane, antithetical, to dream of a median--a deranged, psychotic thought.]
[“I ponder the chains of order; perpetually asphyxiating a ‘disobedie...
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Categories:
rectitude, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
SILENCE
...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def...
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Categories:
rectitude, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun
The Worst Kind of Impossible
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Simply say
yes
It’s all you need to say
yes in agreement to anything
if anything can have an agreement to
it would be better to be
beyond a doubt
so just say yes
and although the molehil...
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Categories:
rectitude, riddle, truth,
Form: Free verse
Blink No 2
...a thousand colours above my head
pale and flaky
am i a guest?
i asked for a full moon
my pledges unheeded
o my god what am i to be
guster of leaves
a little light filtering
they sound bland t...
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Categories:
rectitude, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Stoicism as Way of Life
...Purposeful thought leaders, empowering intellect they reign,
In disposition phlegmatic, indifferent to pleasure or pain,
Rejecting emotions vain, impassive within taciturn domain,
Questing for mi...
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Categories:
rectitude, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Unassailable Purity
...Unassailable purity, a cognition divine of venerated mind,
Proffers promise inviolable, beneficence sacred aligned,
With force invincible emanating from goodwill of heart
Forming precepts impeccab...
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Categories:
rectitude, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Unassailable Purity
...Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ~Author James Baldwin
Humans drown themselves in ego by thinking they'r...
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Categories:
rectitude, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Life
..."He (GOD) hath made every thing beautiful in his time..." Ecclesiastes 3:11 of the King James Bible
Beautiful life indeed precious
packed with love and care, so gracious
my hear...
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Categories:
rectitude, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Quatrain
A Sweet Secret
...A sweet secret
Waves of depression without waste of opportunity,
Trade with season of whiff of irritation,
Worthy mentioned whirlwind of smoke,
Animates to weight the wiles of innocence,
Tra...
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Categories:
rectitude, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Ravishing Beauty
...Ravishing beauty
You've got that sexy allure
Wishing you were here with me
My sweetly scented April flower
You are my rose
It's you my heart sings to
My magic dove My lovely
You've got e...
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Categories:
rectitude, care, fate, love, rose,
Form: Quatrain
What Am I Supposed To Do
...What I am supposed to do
When everything around me has gone crazy?
What am I supposed to do
When my beloved country
Chooses the path to perdition
Rather than moral rectitude?
What am I suppo...
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Categories:
rectitude, anger, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Fahrenheit In Blue
...Fahrenheit in Blue
David J Walker
The place of sons and
Sons of daughters
A sky unwilling
to rend its lights
Blue is its morning pallor
A rusted yarrow
Of Fahrenheits
Blue lens an...
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Categories:
rectitude, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Jocelyn
...JOCELYN
( Acrostic )
Jocelyn,tthe most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard
Sound of music that tickles a man’s heart and soul
Like a star that twinkles in the sky at night
A sweet n...
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Categories:
rectitude, appreciation, art, beautiful, christian,
Form: Acrostic
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