Harmony In The Bleeding World
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The lifeless bullets bound as captive predator
in the restive barrels of the cold guns of war,
chilling cold as the brutal shadow of death,
waiting camouflaged in the dark,
wake up at the s...
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Categories:
restive, war,
Form: Free verse
We would have built
...A green gust dancing
amidst the leaves of ferns
In the obscure dawn,
the birds are all restive.
Had we all been
a swarm of unleashed birds
For sure we would have built
a Mediterra...
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Categories:
restive, bird, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My mercurial mind
...Never at rest, ever restive
like shifting sands of the desert,
my mind is
a labyrinth of quagmires and booby traps,
you step on it
and you’ll either be sucked in
or blown to smithereens…
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Categories:
restive, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Biscuits
...What‘s better than a biscuit?
Hard to debunk
Treasure trunk funk
Should you let
It get wetter
Would you dare risk it?
The trick a quick dunk
Or could flunk..flick..kerplunk.....
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Categories:
restive, food, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Lyric Of Lavender Lagoon
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Aviating aspirations
of effervescent incandescence
spread psychic plasma
of primal spectrum,
painting the exuberance
of indigo emotions
on the sullen sky,
fantasy configure...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, imagery, longing,
Form: Free verse
Dormant Desire
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Expansive aspiration
of effervescent incandescence
disperses psychic plasma
of primal spectrum,
painting panorama of passion
on the silken sky,
the configured
fascinating facsimile
of...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Last Lap
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The Last Lap
Ignorance and fire
now common partners
lying on a restive bed
The night now owns the day
as the day now basks
in opaque blackness
The burnt-out embers
scattered to ...
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Categories:
restive, desire, hope,
Form: Narrative
LIGHT THAT LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS
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Light* that lights all lights continues to glow
triumphant midst woe toward jubilant today 'til tomorrow.
Blest light wakes soul up
perking with God's prop.
Divine light wafts ...
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Categories:
restive, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Couplet
Anywhere But Here
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Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical whispers of wind
are my wondrous wicket
restive ...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, character, identity,
Form: Free verse
Jews Harp - A Reflection On Turmoil
...I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings...
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Categories:
restive, inspirational, introspection, life, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR INSTRUCTING US ABOUT WHAT HE HATES
...July 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 6-9
Key Verse – Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying t...
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Categories:
restive, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Disciplined Dog-line
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In restive response to the nature’s call,
in the disciplined dog-line they all fall.
Not far is the place to pee,
tree never seems to be free.
Leakage curbed canine bladders...
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Categories:
restive, funny,
Form: Limerick
Mudlarking The Memory
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Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice
of longing
luminescent,
the veering valley
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the caden...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, inspirational, memory,
Form: Free verse
Spring Sonnet
...Lipogram Sonnet 4-12-24
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Spring Sonnet
Spring bursts out from winter’s silent cocoon,
Fluttering luminescence on new wings,
Freed up from the ...
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Categories:
restive, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Black Noon
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Black Noon
The restive wind
weds the surging waves
merging spirits and souls
leching away meekness
spiced with weakness
as the way is paved
for the destruction
that rummages at noo...
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Categories:
restive, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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