Armistice
...NOVEMBER 2022
Rightly so, the poppies flood
Early in the winter sky
Merrily stood in field, and this
Existence of mine has passed by
Maybe they'd watch us contend
But are authorities ever sob...
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Categories:
retinas, conflict, england, grief, in
Form: Acrostic
Fireworks
...BOOM.
a puff of purple powder stains the pewter sky.
i sit, listening
to the whirring and fizzling
of the firey starlit, glistening
when the midnight clock strikes nigh.
a red light joins in th...
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Categories:
retinas, america, firework, sad, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare
...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...
Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...
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Categories:
retinas, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Red
...Rosie Registered Retinas
Evidence Erased Easily
Dogma Driven Division...
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Categories:
retinas, africa, break up, conflict,
Form: Acrostic
Death, Death, Oh Old Death
...Death, death, Oh! Old Death
Old death makes everybody dry and sad
Death even makes kings who are grumpy and mad
Absolutely powerless, helpless and useless
Death makes us mute, motionle...
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Categories:
retinas, cry, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
SILENCE
...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def...
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Categories:
retinas, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun
A Son of The Soil
...I am a son of the dark continent
By conception and ancestral offshoot
This black earth,
Where my dark ancestors deposited
The birth right of my life
In the dark bowels of our black sacred ear...
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Categories:
retinas, africa, beauty, humanity, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories:
retinas, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
To Me, Today
...what is a hope
if not the most desperately fervent
wish of a man— a dream so deeply
staining the edges of reality
a hope lies dormant in my belly
sleeping like a dragon curled
on the hoard of...
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Categories:
retinas, allegory, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Abstractually Speaking
...Eyes teleporting in zig zags
Spamming like daggers
Humanoid skull
Veins expanding out
Skeleton hand orbiting
Soul screaming
Love burning
Shrouded in darkness
It's hard to frame it in a ...
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Categories:
retinas, angel, anger, art, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Some nights sleep without us
...
When my eyes fold,
they go not to rest,
they fall into rivers that flow behind the retinas
this is a painting of unfulfilled dreams dancing in lonely grave
Suffocation is the metaphor for s...
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Categories:
retinas, dark, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Pixelated Penance
...Screens stretched across the Modern World,
rivalling our natural vision.
Eyes, lenses, and optic nerves strained
Retinas, pupils, irises, tears.
Most affected?
A Feast of Fatigued Eyes
that r...
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Categories:
retinas, care,
Form: Free verse
Letter Sealed Kiss
...Tartaric acid rain of the lost calligraphy
Peels to melt the running emotions
Drains clog beneath dynasties
Commerce to no one in seas
Pourtant je vois ceasefire
See a spark of defiance
...
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Categories:
retinas, dark,
Form: Sonnet
In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams
...In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams,
And the world seems an atlas that no longer knows how to bend me towards heights.
I call tenderly for shadows that can p...
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Categories:
retinas, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
triptych
...Hydraulic system, heart made of pistons
Every co-ordinated mechanical manoeuvre
My heart served to you on a platter, your hors d'oeuvre
I look into your eyes, a deplorable disguise
Retina...
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Categories:
retinas, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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