Lies Wrapped in Love
...She smiles, and you believe.
She whispers, and you disarm.
Her affection is not affection,
but a weapon—
a stratagem dressed in silk.
Napoleon bent kingdoms to his will,
but could not bend Jo...
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Categories:
seduces, 5th grade, abuse, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
seduces, color,
Form: Haiku
In a library where time has paused to rest its heavy wings
...In a library where time has paused to rest its heavy wings,
two shadows float among the rows like phantoms lost in ink,
where smoke rises like memories of a forgotten dream,
two souls meet and bur...
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Categories:
seduces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Shades of Blue
...Shades of blue are flying in the air
and people are gathering from far and near
the symbols of the world
are hurrying down the street
spreading whispers of hope
on threadbare knees
Shades ...
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Categories:
seduces, america, beach, beauty, business,
Form: Narrative
A Visionary's Vitality
...Verily do I separate myself from her celestial face; seems thorough that symbolically setting the tune
For a ceremony of God's grace
Acting only by reacting to what's enate
As if I've been lifted...
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Categories:
seduces, break up, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Dear heart, with all due respect, stop your skipped beats and get a grip, please
...Dear heart, with all due respect, stop your skipped beats and get a grip, please!
Pull yourself together, it’s just a girl, even if she is cute, smart, and kind.
Yes, her eyes are crystallized love...
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Categories:
seduces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
light that lights all lights
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illumination radiance gleaming spectrum
the lightness of being reflected in meditation
karmic invigoration when Newton’s apple rises
above the false gravity of seeming impermanence
cause an...
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Categories:
seduces, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A World Without Truth
...Channel six says its this
Channel seven says its that
The times says its left
The post says its right
Democrats claim they know
Republicans claim it aint so
The internet supports anyone's case
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Categories:
seduces, evil, mental illness, truth,
Form: Free verse
mantis
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monogamous not
awful courtmanship
nips off lover’s head
tally ho handsome
imponderable female
seduces new prospect...
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Categories:
seduces, animal,
Form: Acrostic
Starry Sorrow
...I summoned sorrow to swallow my soul whole and save it from its sinister solitude.
I stared at the stars sailing against a surf of sunless skies.
I spoke to the sleek sand in soft whispers, ent...
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Categories:
seduces, sea, sky, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Alliteration
Lilith
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The female named Lilith is not
a woman with whom to be caught.
Lust she induces.
Fools she seduces,
for she’s beautiful and she’s hot.
This Lilith’s a demon, they say -
a feminist icon toda...
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Categories:
seduces, myth,
Form: Limerick
Battlefield
...Throughout the ages of time
men have marched
men have fought
men have bled
men have died
For a field of land deemed strategic, an advantage, even holy
ghosts of wars past cling to the soil wait...
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Categories:
seduces, war,
Form: Free verse
A Lasting Light
...The withering is so very beautiful.
Eyes build translucent shells for themselves.
there is a falling inward,
mouths move beneath appearance,
Expressions of mortality
falter,
as the mind begin...
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Categories:
seduces, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Judas Rosetta Stone
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An anti-resolvent-fume-
of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield of humanity.
Thick as molasses, blackstrap morass of emnity.
Blight is apathy, and apathy is blight.
A Void, a claim farmi...
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Categories:
seduces, art,
Form: Rhyme
Woman, Woman, Muse Of Saint-Valentine
...You, gorgeous Muse, with velvety skin
The sugary sap of my poetic pen
And the sole labyrinth of my soul
You inspire me and I adore you.
You are my perennial spring smile
The garden ...
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Categories:
seduces, angel, beauty, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
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