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My breath shortened
for the first time I allowed the closed courtains. I closed it, without noticing it. By that the sun still shines in stripes, it will not leave burns or blindness, but like that I won't get rested easily. ...

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Categories: shortened, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shortened Hope
No worries they uttered as the times streams by The people don yari Yes, they are irate Everything don para Plenty things don spoil Yet they are still visionary envisioning the now to the coming years Even as we are laden with more burdens reversing our journey shortening our hopes as we now live life in bits and pieces ...

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Categories: shortened, betrayal, conflict, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative



Shortened Tranquility
No mercy to the poor was shown, only hard sentences given Chained souls to the grindstone Ghetto grief is accepted living, hope shot dead by cold concern Survival is a day-to-day thing Revised history leaves a paper burn ... razed trail of abandoned factories Modern plantation owners didn’t learn Urban smoke cresting on the breeze, smoldering oppression on the rise again No reparation, no restitution, no...

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Categories: shortened, conflict, perspective, society, truth,
Form: Terzanelle
Shortened Days
Creeping morn's damp coats fen and fair Shrouded pond exhales its steamy breath a solitary crow observes the creeping cold finished fields of golden rod wave and nod beckoning yellow tailed corn, farmer's friend ripe stalks stand, a season's offering air is still, undecided rain or shine languid warm memories of summer fun blown away by change crisp shortened days end before dark blossoms, trees...

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Categories: shortened, nature
Form: Light Verse
Shortened Bridges
There won't be any shortened bridges,Lord I'll keep on loving him in pain No more wave riding on endless seas More of a parched throat love,Lord That's what it will be...

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Categories: shortened, angst
Form: Free verse




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