The Grindstone
...A red-rimmed sun of summer,
of the sweat of the workers,
the salt of their brows.
Shoulders to the grindstone,
the strength of sinew and muscle,
hours of their labors.
The Lord of their lives
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Categories:
red rimmed, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Treacherous Tears
...Treacherous Tears
These tear tracks through make up
Give me away
Red rimmed eyes and rosy nose
Say, " I'm not okay"...
But if you see me like this
Try not to look too close
I'm concealing...
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Categories:
red rimmed, emotions, sad, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Beach Days
...sun's wrath red rimmed blaze
bathers bronzed
dolphins arcs graceful...
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Categories:
red rimmed, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku
Finding
...On a damp Sunday, where the grass and earth
Call my name, out from the tangle of covers
On the humid wind, the forest beckons
With her arms of fallen leaves, twigs
Ferns uncurl
My heart is...
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Categories:
red rimmed, nature,
Form: Free verse
Underneath the Bubbles
...The lines in my eyes are red-rimmed in sweat
Burning is the sensation of this melting intellect
Focus has abandoned to an easier place to think
Unmanned in disaster melted skin turning pink
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Categories:
red rimmed, confusion, dark, death, deep,
Form: Couplet
A Soldier's Mother
...No, she mustn't cry out loud,
Every pain she must but hold;
No tear must make its way from the sides,
Of her pained, grieving, red rimmed eyes.
Into the casket she can't help but stare,
At the...
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Categories:
red rimmed, war,
Form: Rhyme
Red-Rimmed Glasses
...We conveyed a constant view of the world.
That was not the correct way to bear it.
Yet, just in the manner in which we desired.
Through glasses that are red.
Our fellowship grew and t...
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Categories:
red rimmed, analogy, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Lament
...Thrice I attempted to express my feelings,
Thrice I failed miserably.
A fog covered every part of my soul.
A storm darkened my brain,
But no lightning lit my thoughts.
All that was sweet, is dea...
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Categories:
red rimmed, endurance,
Form: Free verse
My Soul To Keep
...Memories of us flicker like a candle wick's flame
Yesterdays, I recall, but today nothing is the same
Sleep's become illusive. Each night I am unsettled
Openly, I c...
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Categories:
red rimmed, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
A Dead Crab
...The grandfather clock solemnly struck two.
In the pitchy night, shadows seem to flit about.
I close my red rimmed eyes tight
Yet I can see all around me for sleep eludes me.
I lie on my bed lik...
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Categories:
red rimmed, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Good Morning
...first light doodle doo
clarion call red rimmed sun
rooster squawk fade stars
27th April 2020
Sponsor Raul Moreno
Contest Name Morning Praise...
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Categories:
red rimmed, morning,
Form: Haiku
The Black Phoenix
...Rigs are quiet now,
slumbering spires of steel
so cold - yet bread for many men.
Children may cry for the world's want of energy.
Towers of glass are empty now,
monuments to a better time,
of...
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Categories:
red rimmed, dark, death, fire, pain,
Form: Free verse
Interesting Girl
...The car was painted mat black
With red rimmed wheels
The windows were tinted
There were no plates
It looked menacing
Even if it was driven
By a girl...
...Who flew the plane
An F-35 Aggress...
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Categories:
red rimmed, car, conflict, flying, military,
Form: Verse
What Happens In the Past, Stays In the Mind
...What happens in the past, stays in the mind.
Sitting on the floor, pen in hand, a wealth of books surround me, comfortable in my familiarity.
Studying was my sole mission; achieving only excel...
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Categories:
red rimmed, abortion, abuse, anger, dark,
Form: Narrative
Misery Without Company
...What is me...misery...imbedded deep within
Buried at the bottom of a heart drenched in sin
Washed in doubt, turned inside out, nowhere to begin
Left alone, my unhappy home with silence...
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Categories:
red rimmed, dark, deep, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
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