The Journey of Man's Soul
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God signs off on His handiwork
releases into the world a human soul
First inside the womb and then outside
that soul begins to unfold
For mankind yearns to be...
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Categories:
rehearses, destiny, freedom, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Architect of Morning
...What if dawn delays at my pane,
Fearing dreams too long displaced?
I send my shadow down the lane—
It knows the streets I’ve never faced.
My homeland breathes in mother’s tea,
Its edges traced...
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Categories:
rehearses, cute love,
Form: Quatrain
The Psychopath
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In shadows thick, she carves a grin,
No conscience dwells beneath her skin.
She counts the stars like tally marks,
Each one a spark snuffed in the dark.
She mimics tears, rehearses pain,
But...
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Categories:
rehearses, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
At midnight, a silent ocean of ebony rises
...At midnight, a silent ocean of ebony rises,
a black lung stretching over my fragile ribs,
and the bed becomes a cold altar where the body rehearses its disappearance,
a sanctuary of shadows dancin...
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Categories:
rehearses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Takotsubo -For the Heart That Could Not Hold
...It begins quietly.
Not as pain—
no, pain would be honest.
It begins as a hush
where your name used to echo,
as a weightless ache blooming
like smoke from a fire
that has already forgotten
wha...
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Categories:
rehearses, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
Mind Rooms
...She finds herself
in a room much too small for her mind.
Cigarettes of hope and despair
burn all night.
She eats sporadically,
rehearses her soul-talk regularly.
Her history was once line...
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Categories:
rehearses, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Frank Flynn of Bbc
...The Year: Long Squandered 1999;
Frank Flynn had found my sent parceled poems ‘fine’
“They can lend themselves... to live performance”
Wherefore I mount for each surveillance….
An Atypical BBC S...
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Categories:
rehearses, appreciation, beauty, career, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
I Talk To the Trees
...I sing the songs of the aspens and the oaks
They sing to me harmonies and lovely verses
Accompanied by the breezes’ instrumentation
They teach me while the forest choir rehearses.
The...
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Categories:
rehearses, nature, tree, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Break of Day Spawns Thwarted Revanchist Rebellion Among Biosphere
...The last trailing tendril filaments
of moon beams nocturnally trace
fashion an illusory gilded chariot Ark,
whence upon celestial runners,
the approach of dawn's early light
illuminated terrestr...
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Categories:
rehearses, abuse, age, anger, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Greatest Sting
...I never saw the coiling snake,
The suddenness of its striking,
But I quickly felt my mistake,
Stung with terror while hiking.
That quickly turned to burning rage,
A response uncalculated-
A ...
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Categories:
rehearses, anger, bible, death, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Precarious Reality
...PRECARIOUS REALITY
insistent
incoherence
deplaced
broken
as coloured
confetti
surmounted
pierces
the soul
with anguish
&
rehearses
nothing
THIS IS AN OPEN(organ...
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Categories:
rehearses, poetry,
Form: Other
What Is the Order
...I get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with the laptop ...
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Categories:
rehearses, 8th grade, absence, america,
Form: Narrative
Thanks To Mentor Poets
...Admonitions well-expressed in verses
maxim or adage that truly blesses
your wise counsels are valuable indeed
like Scripture proverbs my soul rehearses.
With your narratives of faith-pr...
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Categories:
rehearses, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Rubaiyat
Bricks With No Straw
...Does love need an
audience
Or are such things
rehearses
for future
engagements
One would mention
a fear of abandment
so latching on to another
ensures at least marginal
assurance
which G...
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Categories:
rehearses, art, marriage, music, romantic
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Soul Slipper
...Twilight downs the sun as dreams appear on the screen of sleep
Slips into the subconscious realm and trips a few fuses in slumber
Adapts and clears clutter and narrates and alters the story in ...
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Categories:
rehearses, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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