a beautiful dream, slowly dying
...The earth wept for no reason
under a soft articulate noise
of auctioned lives,
a beautiful dream, slowly dying.
Rottenness seeks in the soul
righteous prey,
grown from pure moment...
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Categories:
rottenness, dream, earth, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
a Man a women a Thing
...A man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble He continues like a flower and is cut down He continues to flee also as a shadow and continues to not continue and does not you open ...
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Categories:
rottenness, america, appreciation, art, cheer
Form: Free verse
Consciousness Correction
...Envy is like a fire that burns
That melts the soul and fills the urns
Too much envy is perilous
It rots the bone, too cancerous
Too much envy from vague reason
Halts the flow of gorgeous ...
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Categories:
rottenness, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
A Salute To Our Pastor's Wife
...God be praised for our Pastor’s wife
Virtuous woman* exuded by her countenance
Paragon of spiritual lady’s blest fullness indeed
Fulfilling roles with feminine elegance
Graciously living ...
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Categories:
rottenness, appreciation, birthday, character, christian,
Form: Ode
Desire Death Doth the Weak
...Desire death do those with weakness,
For present circumstances.
To climb the face of life is meekness:
Behold all of God’s chances.
With calloused hands in deep gray nooks, it’s mee...
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Categories:
rottenness, christian, gospel, strength, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Despite Their Pocketful of Promises
...If you come to my occasion
Maybe birthday or dedication
You'll be to me like a red rag to a bull
Asking for rice knowing the price of a bagful
Our common and daily food
Is becoming an august f...
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Categories:
rottenness, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Show Maker
...With the rise of the sun , my eyes are kissed with the its rays and it's beauty, however , my heart is still heavy. I feel like I am living a lie ...
I really can’t explain the reason why, but I do ...
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Categories:
rottenness, allusion, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Viewpoint
...Your viewpoint can be comforting,
Or your viewpoint can be troubling:
Either comforting as a safeguard,
Or as troubling as a canard.
A safeguard tunnels Saints through sin.
A canard tunnels si...
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Categories:
rottenness, anxiety, bible, encouraging, god,
Form: Rhyme
Boundless Devotion
...From water to soil, we continued.
All that I've at any spot known has been rottenness.
I can hear myself awakening close to the water spewed.
Each component of this second was ess...
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Categories:
rottenness, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Spell of a Stranger
...The sprout of momentary illusion,
the voyage of a derelict dream in place of a lie,
the lure of April, the deceit of May concertized in December,
in wintry snow, mocked,
miscarriages of a well...
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Categories:
rottenness, allusion, analogy, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
The Day the World Fell Apart
...It was unseasonably
warm for Winter
sun shone bright
cool breeze blowing
but not even cold
and I was
just walking
along, not knowing
the world, as we knew it
was about to come apart
Then th...
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Categories:
rottenness, depression, grief, how i
Form: Free verse
She Was the Best We Had
...She was the best we had
the best of us.
The best of the clan,
and she was rotten.
We were all rotten
learned rottenness
learned from the best
from our mama
She could out-cuss us,
out run...
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Categories:
rottenness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Vanity World
...VANITY WORLD
Looking into my very me, I saw crying and dying children in me.
What is union without children in our nest.
Looking into my future; I saw my future swimming into ocean of sorrows....
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Categories:
rottenness, grief, imagination, pain, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stygian Doubts-The Catacombs of Saint Francis, Lima, Peru
...The rottenness of it all is no less foul for having been bleached white. This is the conclusion I come to. I walk with a scarf covering my mouth through the dimly lit catacombs of the faithful. The a...
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Categories:
rottenness, adventure, allusion, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Conscious
...I’ll sing you dream songs
that last as long as the hills
but know this my love
it’s fullness IS
the striving of our wills
Against the darkness
that has crept stealthily
into the hearts of ma...
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Categories:
rottenness, character, environment, god, heart,
Form: Free verse
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