Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
...They quickly pass, the waning days more brief,
like love once shied beneath a garish moon,
expose the truths betrayed by Autumn's thief.
Infatuation always ends too soon ~
still tethered to the o...
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Categories:
shied, seasons,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
A senior moment experienced by this drip
...A senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingest...
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Categories:
shied, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
I was the moon when I met Zizam, a silver star hidden in the night
...I was the moon when I met Zizam, a silver star hidden in the night,
And in her eyes, I became a dream, for if she called me her moon, I would be, unbeaten.
Hidden from the earth, I wore my scars, u...
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Categories:
shied, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In Stride
...5/6/24
I got to grind
All the time
In order to rise
As it coincides and goes with time
An ode that's signed
With an open mind
Looking at it from both sides
Otherwise
I'll just nosedive
...
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Categories:
shied, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Field of Forever
...the field is no longer there where
all of youth and ego collided and
her first glance was seen but shied from
all to be born in a thousand recollections
the field is no longer there whe...
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Categories:
shied, memory,
Form: Free verse
withthisrebellioninside
...#w/thisrebellioninside~
Seems you’re abiding by his side, side, side, my love
I tried to save you from giving in, but I had to save me
Appears I’ve been crucified, now I hide like a wingless do...
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Categories:
shied, angst, hope, how i
Form: Lyric
Glad We Came to Game Horn Haiku
...when being a wild editor
would constantly fight with a creditor
who was a pretty puny predator
with mouth open wide
lied about what was inside
their tongue had been tied
(in hell would abide)...
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Categories:
shied, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Evolution of Change
...Here and now I must go
Into my unknown
Where the life I need waits
47 years to the day
This heart is old
These feet are tired
This soul been in this dark
There is that light
That one I fear
...
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Categories:
shied, change, fate, growth, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Knight Was Unsure
...Knight did not know whether or not this was a good move.
He had made friends with a dragon that knew how to groove.
Christmas was coming, and he had brought him a surprise gift.
He might think thi...
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Categories:
shied, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
They Pretended Not To See
...hiding in plain sight, she wove her way down the avenue
no one flinched or shied away, these were professional commuters
They kept walking, ignoring her like New Yorkers can and do
She wanted to d...
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Categories:
shied, science fiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Oak Tree
...A gnarled lone oak tree
grew in the middle of voluminous nowhere,
amidst vast stretches of citron corm fields,
a by-product of an old man’s weird whim.
It proved quite a memorable playground,
Fo...
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Categories:
shied, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Too Bright To Shine
...Overlap of melancholy breezes,lips mumble
In maze of complex routes, body bumble
Dark souls shaking head in wonderment
behind hedge
Frivously pushing themselves over
the edge
Joy instants...
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Categories:
shied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hyperbolic Quasi Autobiographical Prevarication
...Hyperbolic quasi autobiographical prevarication...
caricature sketch of person best known to yours truly
What began as an honest
to goodness attempt
to craft personal truthful profile
evolve...
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Categories:
shied, adventure, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Croydon Part Seven
...In the memorizing firelight flicker
comes rebirth
as the valley of Crocus flowers
becomes a corporate castle of skyscrapers
the taller the better
The middle of Croydon
once of offices
has se...
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Categories:
shied, adventure, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Whispers
...The moon in her fullest florescence
Drifting through the thicket
Hooked in the branches
Whispered secrets to the tree
Shied leaves bent down their heads
And the naughty wind carried away the g...
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Categories:
shied, moon,
Form: Personification
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