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Tears of the Dragon

...I can’t believe I once believed
that dragons could shed tears—
a time when my mind was robed
in the fragile cloth of childhood.

I wandered alleys where clouds bent low,
pressing their weight u...

Painting Pictures

...
What shades of colours do we paint
while walking on this earth?
Do we leave behind a masterpiece?
or a squiggle with no worth?

Will the colours that we choose
look vibrant, - do they shout?
...

The Hardest Thing To Accept Is Being Understood

...The jars were meant to confuse even me —
labels scrawled backward,
dates falsified,
contents misnamed to keep them harmless.

I stacked them like decoys —
rows of false feelings,
the real ones...

BLUE MOUSE GROUP

...BLUE MOUSE GROUP
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The blue mouse group wrote through the night,
with their tiny nibs and ink, what a sight!
     They scribbled and scrawled,
     'Ti...

Carnival Edge Epiphany

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Written: July 30, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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The carnival dazzles—  
mirific mosaics of midway magic  
woven with whimsical c...

Children of broken promises

...Title: Children of Broken Promises
(25 Lines)

They signed their names in ink made of blood,
A treaty scrawled on the bones of the poor.
They shook hands under marble skies,
While cities burned...

When You Leave, Don't Forget To Turn The Lights Off

...
When you leave, turn the lights off—
It matters not to me,
For I am the last subtraction
From the sum of humanity.

The stars have blinked their final light,
Planets turned to dust,
The gala...

Spaces Left Behind Left Bare

...
You left the chair, but not the room,
The silence clings, a flower in bloom.
The kettle waits muted, cold and dry,
Empty spaces haunt me as I go by.

No space is bare, if love stayed there,
Y...

We Danced at the Gas Station

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This poem is featured on YouTube (The Convergence point with Dr. Ivan Edwards), bringing its words to life through spoken expression.

A gas station on the edge of the city,  
Neon lights buzzin...

Snow of My Silence A Prisoner’s Lament in Siberia

...In the frostbitten belly of Russia’s spine,
Where the stars are mute and the sun won’t shine,
A man with chains and a shattered past,
Counts the heartbeats that may be his last.

He once wore la...

Burma-Shave

...They stood like rhymes
on fencepost spines
with wisdom scrawled
in shaving thymes—
a roadside gospel,
terse and sweet
that preached with
meter, grit, and heat.

Rosemary likes
a clean-shave...

unintended innuendo

...Season of violet grief
A day of navy oaths
The weather a dim pink hush— 
ghosts of past, my muse.

I accidentally wrote a letter
scrawled on pale paper—
Guess, my June, what spills forth
when...

KINETICISM

...
phenomena
  light
    vibrant
frozen 
      frills
of
layered
    energy

exhilerating
   diintegrating
dramas
     pervasive
          impulsive
spheres
scrawled
    quasars
consc...

His Palette Retorts

...Sebastian
couldn’t live
without saving
the walls
His paint
covering over
dire messages
 scrawled

All passersby  
witnessed 
each canvas
restored
Reframing
dark alleys
with hope
everm...

A Lantern Made of Suicide Notes: Suicide by Metaphors

...I. The Hour of Approach

The poem I was writing refused to end—  
it kept writing me.  
Blood didn't ink these lines—  
the ink bled me.  
Each stanza a hidden-hematoma  
across...

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