Not Quite Written in Stone
...Black, blue, red, and green,
You can write whatever you please.
But when you use a tool with no eraser,
you run the risk of regretting it later.
Please be careful, Because your fate
co...
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Categories:
run a risk, 12th grade, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
I run the risk
...in order to have bliss i run the risk
on the high-flying disk there is no resistance
my dreams need no practical means to reason
now that i have been given into this musing
two magnets touche...
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Categories:
run a risk, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Allusion Over Realism
...No question is harder than this alarming dialogue
must I completely forget each joy given to me?
Fear is the adversary; it suggests I remain free:
no vision is equal to this imagination so vague!...
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Categories:
run a risk, allusion, conflict, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
A Life Worth Living
...A Life Worth Living
If life is to dwell on the past,
then you would have eyes on the back of your head.
This is why there's a crick in your neck instead.
The past is meant for learning.
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Categories:
run a risk, appreciation, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Shaken Or Stirred
...Easier to run the risk of death
than ridicule damned
Easier to face an army of men
than a single man
Easier to write a thousand lines
than only one
Easier to quote the wisest sage
—than ...
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Categories:
run a risk, self,
Form: Rhyme
Dime a Dozen
...6/27/22
Instead of what of them
Shout out to my cousins
Damn look what the cat drug in
People often buggin'
Another useless discussion
They say it all comes a dime a dozen
Endlessly fussin'
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Categories:
run a risk, dark, deep, life, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Politeness
...Remember the days not long ago
When people were actually polite
Men would open doors for the ladies
Strangers would bid you goodnight
Drivers would wave another car through
Even though...
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Categories:
run a risk, dream,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To Soldiers
...Lofty glory be to the soldiers
Who committedly protect the land -
It's people and the line of culture ,
Of the time-run ,running and future ,
Woods, rivers, fields and stretch of s...
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Categories:
run a risk, courage, soldier,
Form: Lyric
We Diss Then Cancel
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We Diss, Then Cancel
By: Miracle man
August 5, 2020
Do all run the risk of being canceled today,
Or is this an addition to millennial word play?
We take up a sign when thinking thing...
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Categories:
run a risk, friendship love, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
Gulzar Translations
...My Apologies, Sona
by Gulzar
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
My apologies, Sona,
if traversing my verse's terrain
in these torrential rains
inconvenienced you.
The monsoons are unsea...
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Categories:
run a risk, urdu,
Form: Verse
Breast Cancer
...It's my belief that enlarging a woman's breasts
Implantation run the risk of cancer, that's my guess
My wife is an example
Following the gamble
Got breast cancer and passed away, still ha...
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Categories:
run a risk, body,
Form: Limerick
Survival Suits Her
...Survival suits her
and for those
who pay attention,
who look closely,
it’s in the way she moves.
The way she talks.
The way she carries herself.
She has a flame
burning inside her
sparki...
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Categories:
run a risk, mental illness, recovery from,
Form: I do not know?
We Need Time To Digest Words Slowly
...Words are wonderful things,
That can encourage,
Our appetite for knowledge and understanding
They can help the flow of creative juices,
And rejuvenate brain cells thought to be dead,
The could...
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Categories:
run a risk, addiction, analogy, appreciation, bible,
Form: Didactic
Talk To Me Then - Just Don'T Tweet
...What is best to write a letter or send an SMS
I suppose it depends on the recipient that would be my guess
I used to once prefer a text but emails my default now
Plus, there’s many social networ...
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Categories:
run a risk, engagement, spoken word, voice,
Form: Free verse
Discovering the Realm of Poetry
...When we speak today we tend to look at words as a necessary constant with limitations of their own rather than a completely different cosmos in which we have the ability to traverse and discover.
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Categories:
run a risk, language, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Prose
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