Ethnicity AI Glasses
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Rose-colored glasses
the rough ahead seems rosy
details blurred ignored
dreams blossom with optimism—
truth in blissful ignorance.
Ethnicity lenses—
now that's a great idea
AI scans your r...
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Categories:
scans, angst, cheer up, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Osprey
...Osprey scans waters
Swoops fish caught for young in nest -
Natural food chain...
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Categories:
scans, bird, fish, fishing, flying,
Form: Haiku
To the Moon and Back
...To the Moon and Back
My dearest mother, we have been
Through seasons of sorrow,
The storms we've weathered, and the lessons learned,
Held captive by the long shadows of yesterday's pain.
By yo...
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Categories:
scans, appreciation, care, daughter, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Invisible Army
...It was August 1st,
Army Day in China—
when I was escorted through concrete arteries
deep beneath the pulse of the city.
No cameras. No phones.
Just retinal scans, encrypted codes,
and a silen...
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Categories:
scans, anniversary, conflict, science, science
Form: Free verse
Battle scarred but unbroken
...Battle scarred but unbroken
I was captive in a silent war.
My body, the battlefield.
A quiet siege waged beneath my skin,
where cells divided
and uncertainty grew.
This body, once solely m...
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Categories:
scans, angst, cancer, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Forest of Toil
...Her hair black as the hills of oil,
and thick as the forest of toil.
Adonis, with large palms, works hard,
to win her heart, under armed guard.
Her father keeps her chaste; in stow.
Charms’ lo...
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Categories:
scans, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Lay
Writer's Block
...I'm supposed to create a few lines each day,
And arrange them into some kind of poem.
There's always a new way to write them.
Especially when it scans. It should rhyme.
But today, the guide I ...
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Categories:
scans, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
May I Hold Your Hands
...May I Hold Your Hands
David J Walker
May I hold your hands
Your soft and smooth skin
Soothed my brow and
helped me breathe again
We were so young
And free back then
May I hold your ...
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Categories:
scans, age,
Form: Rhyme
Reclaim Your Domain
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I wish I could plug
A flash drive in your ear.
I would wipe clean the worries
Hidden deep inside there.
I know they've been hiding
In camouflaged space.
Your very own virus
firmly in place...
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Categories:
scans, angst, depression, encouraging, life,
Form: Rhyme
Time Has Gone By
...Time Has gone By
By Franklin Price
01/14/2025
Time has gone by. I'm up in life.
Three years ago I lost my wife
Cancer, then covid came around
She, way too soon, was Heaven bound
Late in th...
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Categories:
scans, age, appreciation, cancer, christian,
Form: Couplet
Regal and Lethal
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Perched on mountain peak
a fearsome eye
scans the sky
~ Open, its beak
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Categories:
scans, bird, fear, food, sky,
Form: Rhyme
A Machine's Gaze
...beneath the screen’s unwavering eye
it scans the words where truths may lie
each line dissected parsed and weighed
a judgment rendered coldly made
this poem is not yours it claims
patterns mat...
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Categories:
scans, computer, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas in Twenty-Twenty-Four
...When day breaks on Christmas, and finished is your snore
What awaits the daylight in twenty-twenty-four?
Will you tear into the presents, wrapped up so neat
Then gather at the table, be stuffed as...
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Categories:
scans, bible, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Rhyme
night
...dark is the morning dark is my phone with aliens rushing our border
i watch these vermin with contempt
i take my eyes off at 8am sharp
the commute is only an hour but a good first impression i wil...
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Categories:
scans, 12th grade, poetry, student,
Form: Rhyme
The Poetry Club
...He enters looking bedraggled, tired and worn out, his skin like Vellum, blank and pale. Lifting his eyes to catch their gaze he gives a slight nod to acknowledge their presence. He scans the room as ...
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Categories:
scans, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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