utmost
...I have a confession to make. I’m a trust fund baby
and a member of the educated Elite.
In my defense, I'm a newcomer in both categories.
I got my trust fund at 18 and graduated Yale University t...
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Categories:
schemed, baby, boyfriend, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Dreamer
...I am but the dreamer, never the dream,
Yearning to shimmer like an endless blue ocean,
A cascade of stars dancing upon its gleam,
Not a mere stream, lost and forgotten.
I long to bloom as an et...
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Categories:
schemed, 9th grade, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Circumlocution
...In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
t...
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Categories:
schemed, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
PASSING YEARS
...
I feel that life has passed me by.
I cannot help but wonder why.
What happened to those dreams I dreamed,
And those ambitious schemes I schemed?
Back then, when I was in my prime,
I thought ...
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Categories:
schemed, age, love,
Form: Kyrielle
Havoc
...Tries to be ambitious
At Least once in a lifetime to be called precious
Society taught to be cautious
Uncertainty was seemed
Everyone thought that they were schemed
Couldn’t fit in the field
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Categories:
schemed, anxiety, career, child abuse,
Form: Sonnet
Justice Served in Blue and White
...Part I: "Shadow of Intent"
Beneath the blaze of summer skies—
A couple met by fate;
She lived where marble towers rise,
While he bore fortune's weight.
His la...
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Categories:
schemed, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Dorothy Toto The Gang and Dr Phil
...Dorothy and her lovely small dog Toto.
Were all taken up in a fierce tornado.
Ran into three helpless bobos.
A Tin man, Lion, and Scarecrow.
No Wizard needed, just the Dr Phil show.
The three ...
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Categories:
schemed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Win's Feathers
...An impotent soul wrapped with a police seal
Married a merchant and stopped bearing Jill
everyone must care, that’s how it feels
traps of superiority placed like banana pills
mutual respect losing...
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Categories:
schemed, pride,
Form: Rhyme
The Wife's Lament
..."The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife...
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Categories:
schemed, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
She of Oak Island
...Frequently she said of the other
who she compared
him to her
other
Asset based relationship
ought not include one or the other men
to know whats happening
Should one include
somethings that
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Categories:
schemed, AI Generated, beauty, culture,
Form: Bio
In a World Where I Do Not Exist
...There are visions roving inside my head
of a time and place where perhaps I once lived.
But how do I know of those worldly things
if I no longer exist? I must question if I ever did.
I am off k...
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Categories:
schemed, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
As I Look Down
...As I look down and see the ground
On which my feet don’t stand
The light I see is all around
Things haven’t gone as planned
It’s really kweer, I’m standing here
And somehow, you are not
You d...
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Categories:
schemed, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
The Boss Was Not
...…Dunder Mifflin
actions not mortifying
suddenly
the voice of a sportscaster
erupts
with the time of day
giving
the time of day
quarterly
…Mash
not a lover’s quarrel
but
like Burns and H...
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Categories:
schemed, work,
Form: Verse
You Took Advantage
...
You took advantage of me
My youth and gullibility
A medical professional held in such high esteem
Yet behind a closed door evil schemed
An older gentleman with charismatic charm
Intereste...
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Categories:
schemed, abuse, betrayal, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Moonlight Sonatas and Morning Kisses
...In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
...
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Categories:
schemed, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Prose Poetry
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