Ceasefires Don't Give Peace a Chance
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Guns stop firing, still the hate goes on,
with grievance still burning all along.
Peace talks halted, no hearts in repair,
Just hollow moments, trembling in air.
Need more than stalling, need...
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Categories:
riven, peace,
Form: Lyric
Multiplicity of the Self
...“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
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Multiplicity of the Self
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Categories:
riven, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Sand and Sea
...And lo of that wave riven coast
That bounding sea who cries here most
On wind tossed shores where teardrops sown
Yearn to make their passions known
Forever clasped with lover with foe
Whereon? O...
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Categories:
riven, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
...Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories:
riven, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
Illusion of Unconditional Love
...Teary eyed trying to understand the hate in disguise
a energetic fear of abandonment help veil those lies
I am fed up with this frequency of control and hate
people are so prone to believe authent...
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Categories:
riven, abuse, hate, how i
Form: Rhyme
NATURES FATHOM GATHERING-
...Always believing
carousels driven
elvoved from gathering
hibucius industrilized junipers kisses linge...
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Categories:
riven, allusion, analogy, appreciation, community,
Form: ABC
Gamblers with Hearts
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Trusting souls
gamble with hearts
Even odds ~
they’re riven apart
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Categories:
riven, love hurts, trust,
Form: Rhyme
It's more than Guessin'
...It is a strange and wondrous thing,
When fortune comes, without a ring.
Some see not, what they have been given,
Till it is lost, and heaven's riven.
So take heed, and count thy blessings,
For...
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Categories:
riven, appreciation,
Form: Other
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
riven, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges
...Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges,
Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges.
Your scars are but an alluring landscape,
Their call, an echo urging me t...
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Categories:
riven, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Triple Word Score
...I had an offer to play a game of scrabble online
There was no chatting in the room to give me a sign
about whom my worthy opponent could possibly be
but we were well matched by the score, I could ...
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Categories:
riven, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Tennessee
...Oh Tennessee, bard divine, what gems you've given,
Of truth and pain from your wrecked life riven.
Though critics scorned, your genius shone
In shabby rooms where oft alone,
You typed amid ...
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Categories:
riven, appreciation, art, celebration, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face
...Red hot chili pepper poker face...
Born that way angry antithetical
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprie...
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Categories:
riven, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
...Stricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courte...
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Categories:
riven, abuse, age, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Devotion
...In the shrine of my soul,
In the cathedral of contemplation.
In the temple of tenacity,
In the mosque of mercy…
Beside the rushing riven river,
Beside the thundering towers of waterfalls,
Bes...
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Categories:
riven, appreciation, dedication, devotion, friendship,
Form: Free verse
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