Unrequited Bond
...Sometimes love is unrequited—
sometimes it shines,
like the moon and the stars.
But what if it’s siblings
who carry that silence?
A single word
separating five years of life.
Like wood tha...
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Categories:
regains, depression, emotions, endurance, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
What Gives with Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is a dilemma -
Offering goodness freely where none was given,
can suppress rightful anger, grief,
accountability, cause and guilt.
There are two sides to the rub for
getting mutu...
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Categories:
regains, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
sun shines on water haiku
...sun shines on water
a thirsty dog does rejoice
regains her vigor...
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Categories:
regains, dog, health, sun, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
Memories of the Night
...The queen of the daylight lurks likes memories.
Then is gone her silky array of words in Bangla
Disappearing fast as the blue king of the night in Hindi,
She regains her place, moves back and forw...
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Categories:
regains, best friend, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Under the mantle of the cosmic night, where stars whisper their eternal prayers
...Under the mantle of the cosmic night, where stars whisper their eternal prayers,
In everyone's life, at some moment, the inner fire goes out,
A hidden flame, enveloped by the unforeseen winds of fa...
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Categories:
regains, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
There’s nothing to mourn about death, any more than the blooming of a rose
...There’s nothing to mourn about death, any more than the blooming of a rose,
What’s truly terrible isn’t death, but the lives that are wasted.
People lose their essence in the abyss of forgetfulness...
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Categories:
regains, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tornado
...Amidst the chaos, the wails and the screams,
Destruction abounds, shattering my dreams.
I cry out in anguish, but the noise never ends,
Longing for peace, for this turmoil to mend.
Through the an...
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Categories:
regains, addiction, christian, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
In the shadow of the night, when the wind weaves endless spells
...In the shadow of the night, when the wind weaves endless spells,
There you stand, eternal rock, at war with time itself.
The night, with its new moon voice, whispers to you its secrets,
And you, l...
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Categories:
regains, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Flight from the captivity of my fear
...Dreams dreams and dreams,
Although the reality is far away from the fantasy realms.
Under the sunbeams, I considered it mainstream,
but all I could hear were my screams and screams.
Walking along...
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Categories:
regains, abuse, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Komorebi
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The thicket trees look up allured to the rising scarlet sun,
draping them with the patina of pristine sparkle soaring high.
For the thrilled trees the cosmic color symphony has begun,
as the ...
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Categories:
regains, sunshine, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Window
...Behind the slightly misted pane, I sit
alone: outside a bared and boney limb
of sycamore is splayed with branches split
their flimsy leaves like floppy goldfish swim.
As autumn's copper shards ...
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Categories:
regains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Holy Prayer
...Holy Prayer
If words ain't enough, I'll say a prayer
Hoping that it will be heard
Cause I'm on my knees facing up
Hands clasp together as I say this prayer
I'm not worthy to demand anyth...
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Categories:
regains, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Love
...Love is involvement and connections sometimes at a far
distance, sometimes within one's reach. ties stimulating
personal associations stil...
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Categories:
regains, appreciation, blessing, character, desire,
Form: Free verse
The Fallow Fields
...When rhymes forsake me, my pen's then bled dry;
and eloquent lines rich in metaphor
die before the inkwell's used up, here and by:
for the once-teeming storehouse reservoirs
of song fle...
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Categories:
regains, daffodils, inspiration, metaphor, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Gray Clouds Roaming
...I hear a rustling in the leaves
As the wind huffs and heaves
A storm is coming ever near
A rustling in the leaves I hear
Gray clouds roam across the sky
Some leaves swirl up on high
Th...
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Categories:
regains, rain, rainbow, tree,
Form: Quatrain
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