I do believe
...Bounded by honourable hearts
Delicious dreams gravitating the mind
Gleam sunset patching life with brightness!
As autumn rain effectuates its pledge
While stars evince my inner desires,
I do bel...
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Categories:
sanctioning, confidence, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for Humanity
...The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the ...
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Categories:
sanctioning, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Reflections on the Year
...As another year its shadows cast,
prudence prods, pause, and ponder the past.
The perspectives and wisdom we gain,
will help us face life’s stress and strain.
Because of how this year did trend...
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Categories:
sanctioning, appreciation, god, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Greed to Grace: a Psychodynamic Diamante
...
Id
greedy, primal
starving, seeking, clamoring,
impulsive, wild, mild, deliberative,
prohibiting, sanctioning, tempering,
sangfroid, equanimity,
Superego...
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Categories:
sanctioning, culture, life, psychological,
Form: Diamante
Pirouetting Prussian Flakes
...Nestled with the glittering elements,
I ponder the immortality of the senses—
my lucidity twirls,
as pirouetting flakes through
sapphire mist amidst cyanic windstorms,
drifting like arctic emb...
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Categories:
sanctioning, feelings, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Self Elected Puppets
...Where are the medicine men and women we could always trust
Have they all disappeared turned into dust
Replaced by snake oil salesmen dishing out pills
Hear the ringing of their over filled tills...
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Categories:
sanctioning, political,
Form: Rhyme
Destroy Worry and Deploy Joy
...Spend your time with great joy
All available skill, you deploy
Reveal to the World your mind
Where solutions, let them find
Never worry, instead feel happy
Regard life as a lovely trophy
Foll...
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Categories:
sanctioning, care, confidence, courage, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Ostracised
...
Once such a threat leads to invasion
Steps must be taken to combat their actions
Time for the world to retaliate against
Reasoning was clearly never on the table
And for that, the sanct...
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Categories:
sanctioning, anger, angst, death, humanity,
Form: Acrostic
Do Not Just Whisper
...1.
WHAT?
Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?
Or
Are we go...
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Categories:
sanctioning, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Our Choices Define Us
...We all make choices in life:
sometimes, it's the small
seemingly insignificant,
little things that can corrupt the heart
and assault the soul:
or make a positive difference in someone’s ...
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Categories:
sanctioning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Just Whisper
...1.
WHAT?
Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?
Or
Are we go...
...
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Categories:
sanctioning, happiness, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Government Teetering Upon Precipice of Anarchy Abyss One
...Disposition tilts dogma of poetaster
elicits, nevertheless adopting role jester
trending toward vagueness exhibited
by Addams family uncle Fester.
Yours truly makes exception to his
preference...
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Categories:
sanctioning, 12th grade, america, jobs,
Form: Political Verse
Beautiful-
...When I thought of YOU beautiful
Eagerly I looked at YOU exquisite
I crave you silken, yon stunning sweet
While I pondered, enchanting and I seek
The incredible ideal invigorating ...
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Categories:
sanctioning, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Fight For What You Believe In
...1.
WHAT?
Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool
Of unintelligible madness,
And let calamitous folly anchor its obscure ships
...
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Categories:
sanctioning, humanity, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Sanctions
...Written By: D. Collins 6/20/19
By starving the people, we're hoping they will revolt.
But, that may not come to be the end result.
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Categories:
sanctioning, anti bullying, nonsense,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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