Unadored
...I tremble before you, my vying emotion
I thought I could be loved with complying emotion
My mirror used to love my sight
there is no more of that undying emotion
Neglect tore at me, scatterin...
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Categories:
self denying, child abuse, hurt, mental
Form: Ghazal
In My Feelings - For Natasha
...The story became too heavy
I did went on to empty it
But I was timid
That the outcome could be negative
Which could undermine my dignity
A few days down the line
I did shake heaven and ear...
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Categories:
self denying, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Oh How I Wish I Had His Art
...Oh how I wish I had his Art!
I am two fools I know: one for loving you,
And one for not letting go;
When you draw away, and abandon me.
When all is said and Donne,
We are but simple fools; w...
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Categories:
self denying, allusion, appreciation, grief, lost
Form: Verse
Social and Antisocial Capital
...Hybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
reacclimating tastes toward richer anticipations.
We have all heard of social capital
and natural capital,...
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Categories:
self denying, culture, earth, health, language,
Form: Political Verse
Epic Pursuits
...Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung
Where minds in thrall by minstrels
Were held
With tales revealing
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and shame.
Who does not mar...
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Categories:
self denying,
Form: Free verse
The Fate of a Soldier
...It was a special day and he’d hardly said his vows
When some gory militants struck in the northern part,
The groom’s suit he replaced with the soldier’s uniform
And the merry radiance faded to ref...
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Categories:
self denying, pain, war, , fate,
Form: Verse
A Life of Great Fullness
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A Life of Great Fullness
Although His life was self-denying
Shadowed with pain and care
Christ’s Spirit was never crushed
By the load He did bear
His heart was a wellspring
Of peace...
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Categories:
self denying, faith, inspirational, life, joy,
Form: Rhyme