Assurances
...The worst day is never quite as bad
The best day always better
The valleys never near as deep
The mountains even higher
Its not optimistic fervor
Or romanticized observation
Its simply the ef...
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Categories:
romanticized, for her, love,
Form: Free verse
Velvet Coffin: An Epilogue
...mirror on the wall reflects my pain
it is a witness of my harsh reality
the pain i romanticized about someone
is a fake reflected image of my thoughts
the pain i never wished to tear my flesh
is...
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Categories:
romanticized, pain,
Form: Free verse
Human Hyenas
...**Human Hyenas**
Since the dawn of humanity, the narrative surrounding creation has often placed Adam at the center, positioning him as the architect of the enchanting yet elusive Garden of Eden. ...
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Categories:
romanticized, abuse, allusion, america,
Form: Narrative
Residue
...Things are not making sense, and I am questioning if my reality is so because I thought it in to being.
Am I the only one hearing the truth?
Am I the only one believing?
I think I am in need of a...
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Categories:
romanticized, dark, humor, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Door of Uncertainty
...Blue ~ is the door of uncertainty,
carved with letters of lime green,
with antique amulets
hung on sterling strings,
like teardrop dreamcatchers,
framing the anatomy
of heali...
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Categories:
romanticized, emotions,
Form: Free verse
am I not art
...as the wind whistles
warm wishes
echoing the
sea-salt silence
flowing beneath
silver-kissed waves
I think of synonyms for
love
illustrating hate
...
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Categories:
romanticized, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Part Time Lover
...H e a r t ~
a museum of mosaic mysteries
of handwritten manuscripts
tattooed with crimson needles
from acrylic sunsets,
when dusk cradles
the obsidian chambers of celestial havens,
homing...
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Categories:
romanticized, crush,
Form: Free verse
Dance of Death
...Zenith ~
a fatal lie written in forged gold,
but to read the bruised ballads I’ve bled
upon the palette of pixelated peridots
in ominous silence,
must I speak the
romanticized rhymes of funeral...
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Categories:
romanticized, dance, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lachrymose Lament
...As the last petal falls
upon trembling twigs,
and the heart withers,
like nocturnal stars
weeping in a casket~
of ice-laced sepals,
soaked in searing silence,
cloaked in thistles of nothingnes...
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Categories:
romanticized, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Fourth Turning
...I wonder
How far we’ll go
So desperate for heroes who are first
Criminal enterprises
Romanticized as rebels
Lies wrapped in a maybe-he-could-make-it-all-better?
From what?
To what?
We do no...
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Categories:
romanticized, discrimination, evil, history, money,
Form: Free verse
The Death I Romanticize once I Think of You
..."With every fiber of my being, my eyes glimpse at my whole life gone avail and unjust; the sacrifice mother had made before birth was certainly not enough, wish I had gone through the flames of
Nor...
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Categories:
romanticized, absence, abuse, addiction, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Unorthodox nonestablismentarian epitome
...Unorthodox nonestablismentarian epitome
Describes celibate bent aegis.
Mein kampf illustrates gravitas.
Underdog muted lest intimidation
think bully brandishing fist in my face
threatening t...
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Categories:
romanticized, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Could My Love Be Silent
...More recently, l’ve romanticized the idea of falling in love through silence.
Maybe it's because my mother pushes love on me through her tongue.
Maybe it's because I prefer the inner monologue of ...
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Categories:
romanticized, body, desire, love, mom,
Form: Free verse
Old Lumberjack Sonnet
...You see him in photos of black and white,
standing atop logs drawn by big horses,
he wears a thick wool to stay winter’s bite,
almost as this as the draft team’s courses.
Then he’s in a shack bui...
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Categories:
romanticized, appreciation, history, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
To the girl that got away:
...To the girl that got away:
I want you to know that I never intended to create any distance between us or make you feel like our reality fell short of the romanticized version I portrayed in my wri...
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Categories:
romanticized, break up, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
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