If My Poems Were Eulogies
...If being pretty were a crime, you’d already be behind the bars
Because angels look at their reflection and wish they had your smile
And I’m not sentimental, but to you I must confess:
I’ve waited ...
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Categories:
romanticizing, 11th grade, boy, crush,
Form: Free verse
Fortuna
...I thought I left romanticizing the future in the past
I thought I left this life
I thought I left the life of worrying about what depths my present actions will result to
I thought I'd never b...
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Categories:
romanticizing, conflict, desire, hurt, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The boy from my 5 classes again
...Sometimes he’s next to me. Close enough that the air feels different, like something charged is sitting between us. My stomach does that thing, tightens, flutters, not because I like him, not like th...
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Categories:
romanticizing, 10th grade, age, anger,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Embers of an Abandoned Campsite
...I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling
But I still bring the clouds in my own way
You wanted a goddamn college essay
But there was nothing else to say
She's the tortured soul in all of us
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Categories:
romanticizing, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Under the cathedral of infinity, stretched above lost dreams
...Under the cathedral of infinity, stretched above lost dreams,
I do nothing with my life but romanticize and decay in indecision,
I weave dreams from the ethereal threads of the moon and drape them ...
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Categories:
romanticizing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Clouds
...Clouds, fluffy, white cotton gaseous
Floating in the sea air
cottony blue sea Full of snowy peaks.
Soft whiteness in heavenly sky
white to white in bluish azure...!
Plumes, pompoms to enchant!
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Categories:
romanticizing, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Free verse
Let Everybody Eat
...Meat galore going for cheap in the stores, meat galore piling up on your shore. I cannot believe that the world is starving when tons of chickens and assorted meats are scattered everywhere in the st...
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Categories:
romanticizing, adventure, business, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
The Unknown Garden
...Cinnamalls all in bloom
Their bright colors eliminate the gloom
Muffinflies buzzing around
Bumblesnake rattles a new sound
The razzle vines love to climb
They will reach the sky given tim...
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Categories:
romanticizing, animal, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
In the Rainbow of Reining Justice
...IN THE RAINBOW OF REINING JUSTICE
Red is the flowing blood of liberation;
Black is the blood that flows from arteries
of those systematically murdered and
denied justice by the systemic tools ...
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Categories:
romanticizing, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
This Land Is Your Land But With a Quarter Life Crisis
...This life is my life
Why is this my life
So I shout YOLO
Maybe I'll try van life
Cause escapism
And romanticizing
Are all that's really driving me
And maybe one day
I'll really do it
I'l...
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Categories:
romanticizing, america, angst, how i
Form: Lyric
Things We Should Start Romanticizing
...• rainfall - the blue summer sky making up her mind/you riding your bike from your university to your dorm/wind in your hair, you smile as it plants kisses on your cheek/there has been always somethi...
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Categories:
romanticizing, art, betrayal, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Distant Shores
...Tell me your secrets, tell me your lies.
Don't bore me by saying you have none.
It is time that we both realize,
that we should accept the things that we've done.
Times we have hidden within th...
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Categories:
romanticizing, desire, destiny, fate, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Sparkles of My Whims
...If rain water could sing, as it fell from the gaping skies
Would we not have sought to dance outside
Naked and barefoot
Letting its words teleport our soul
Into dimensions we have never dared ima...
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Categories:
romanticizing, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Separation
...Separation only looks so sweet,
And tantalizing, when I slice your meat.
Romanticizing crimson glistening,
You plead to god, but is he listening?
Crazed focus guides me down your curves,
I live...
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Categories:
romanticizing, appreciation, beauty, body, fear,
Form: Lyric
Fight Or Flight
...Romanticizing
We would all do the greatest
In the face of trials
But only a few embrace
Traits which conquer fears and pains...
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Categories:
romanticizing, courage, strength, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
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