The World That Lost
...The old streets, the old cars
The flowing river that won't stop far
The memories seeking through tears
The old paper ,all tattered and cleared
The music that fills time
The glowing star ,What ...
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Categories:
resided, fate, leaving,
Form: Free verse
What Once Was
...Fragments of a house foundation
blacken by the fire.
Never rebuilt
empty lot nice size
Good shade tress and high grass
Potential promising
Did a child perish here?
People once resided
Old swi...
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Categories:
resided, future, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
What happened to the place
...I resided there once
I returned to find it derelict
Looks like a horror scene
Spiders spun webs
Doors locks blown off
Leaves placed as if arranged evilly
When I was there
I remember it serene...
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Categories:
resided, home,
Form: Free verse
In a corner of the world, where silence weaves its web like a spider in the night
...In a corner of the world, where silence weaves its web like a spider in the night,
Lives trickle away in lines of systematic renunciations, like rivers slowly retreating,
Each step backward is a kn...
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Categories:
resided, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz ...
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Categories:
resided, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Free verse
The Night Storm
...Night fells suddenly sending rays of hope in the sky as
anxious hearts make music with their flute and the violin with its tender strings bring back memories of my youth. It is the part of me that ...
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Categories:
resided, beautiful, business, community, culture,
Form: Prose
Xavier and Marilda
...His wonderful wizardly was well-known in the glen
Xavier, was more talented than most of his kin
His enchantments could weasel under your skin
Making you fat, angry, happy, or sometimes too thin
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Categories:
resided, fantasy,
Form: Monorhyme
Insignificant Monster No More
...Drained of opaque innocence
Perfected by your toxicity,
I was laid bare beneath the narcissistic sun,
Searing deep within dehydrated pupils,
Stripping my soul of all humanity,
until your siniste...
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Categories:
resided, dark, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse
A Magical Journey
...“Magic can create wonders bordering between reality and fantasy, creating before us an aura of chimera. All celestial phenomena may flash past before our naked eyes and we cannot decide if we are dre...
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Categories:
resided, beautiful, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Regrets Road to Lake Harmony
...the train wheels stopped at a station
and the roads leads to lake harmony
my homestead, the town my memories roots run deep
the air feels fresh while the sun is overhead
walking down the road, it...
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Categories:
resided, sad, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Tsk Tsk, Task Nearly Thwarted
...Mary Lou Sims was young and enterprising, like stars routing dark;
Or mauve dawn on the verge of discovery, awaiting time's remarks.
Mary Lou's best friend was Cora Mann, ever since sweet...
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Categories:
resided, dream, fantasy, friend, lost,
Form: Couplet
HOMELESS
...Reflecting...at the end of December 2009 I was homeless. However, in March of 2010 God intervened and provided me a safe roof over my head where I have resided for almost 15 years! He is a good and f...
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Categories:
resided, appreciation, faith, god, hope,
Form: Acrostic
Cousins
...We were children that played, laughed, and cried together
ages that range different by years to decades
we all chattered or complained about each other
family gatherings brought us back together; ...
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Categories:
resided, cousin, culture, dark, growing
Form: Free verse
Anxiety
...{"MY dance in the downpour was cut short, though, even for a second I felt my worries glide off from the tips of my fingers as the precipitation stuck against the flesh of my skin. My heart palpitate...
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Categories:
resided, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Petals of Pain
...A noblewoman
who never sheds scars from fragile eyes,
you won’t hear her inner child cry.
A palette of purple pride hides horrific truths.
We hid behind a small frame, evading the regiment’s reig...
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Categories:
resided, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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