The Altar of Your Love
...I see your face,
a keen imprint in the fog of my longing.
The world dissolved into dissonance,
hard edges sharpened by the heat of you.
I reach for you,
not with hands,
but with the kind of i...
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Categories:
senselessness, beautiful, courage, feelings, i
Form: Free verse
Insanity
...Morning glory,
The mountains stand in brown nudity,
There's no shame in being mighty echoes the wind,
The air is taut with the brooding silence of a storm,
It will rain tears sooner or later,
An...
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Categories:
senselessness, addiction, anxiety, change, city,
Form: Free verse
knife crime
...Cut throat
Cut knife
Its double edged life
Blood drips
Life slips
Whispers gone away
Nothing to say
Young lives losts
Souls gone forever
All because people think there clever
Brainwashe...
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Categories:
senselessness, dark, deep, violence,
Form: Rhyme
NONSENSE
...
It is nonsense,
Because it does not make sense.
Not because there is no sense,
But because you are unversed
And cannot make sense of it.
Because it is esnesnon,
It is nonsense,
And above you...
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Categories:
senselessness, angst, education, feelings, fun,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HEARING OUR CRIES
...July 8 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 120-125
Key Verse – Psalms 120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HEARING ...
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Categories:
senselessness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win
...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...
for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of...
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Categories:
senselessness, america, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Rhyme
Love For Sail
...Love was in the wrong places
Out of luck, there'd none at all
Veered cross his eyes on faces
Ebbed men and numbers to call
Twilight drops an altered star
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Categories:
senselessness, analogy, appreciation, destiny, innocence,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Come post presidential election 2024
...Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dis...
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Categories:
senselessness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mister Money Bags No More
...Mister money bags no more
Ah..., how I idolize the days of yore
before June twentieth, and twenty first
two thousand twenty three
when utter senselessness wore,
a trail of woe brutally
ravagi...
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Categories:
senselessness, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
They
...They think of their next meal,
and the cut of their clothes.
They talk of events they have
no ability to change.
They spend their spare hours
watching others contend in
pointless physical con...
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Categories:
senselessness, angst,
Form: Free verse
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass kil...
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Categories:
senselessness, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Take Me As I Am
...I wear no hood, hold no gun
Never was a menace
Walking the street is no crime
If you can so can I
I bear no grudge with you
So why do you attack me so senselessly
My eyes are red from pai...
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Categories:
senselessness, black african american, color,
Form: Free verse
Right Turns Hard Times
...Right Turns Hard Times
David J Walker
Only a scooter as if
a Scooter
was just a toy
The memory disguised
as an errant thought
Brought tears of joy
To a man returning to a boy
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Categories:
senselessness, age, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Our House
...With so many people in war forced to flee…forced to run away…forced along the streets of their country to roam…in the peaceful calm of the morning I stopped to give thanks for our home.
It’s where...
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Categories:
senselessness, home, house,
Form: Rhyme
Selfish
...9/8/21
Behind the curve or way ahead of it
Impacting progression, causing friction
Due to depression and addiction
Couldn't help it
Being selfish
It's all been hellish
The cards I've dealt...
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Categories:
senselessness, addiction, dark, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme
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