Pillaged Poet
...I heard echoes of scurrilous snarls,
from my conscience as it spoke
contemptible remarks aimed at me.
What shame those words delivered.
"Fatuous one, why does your hand quiver,
mimicking the ...
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Categories:
shrivels, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ancestors claypot
...#Ancestors__clay_pot
Vibrations under my foot, the magnetics takes course in my upper body, my mind shrivels thoughts, my third eye activated, before me a Sotho voice electrocutes my attention
Fr...
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Categories:
shrivels, adventure, africa, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
field of forgiveness
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your field lies bare and vacant
a patch of wasteland never toiled
pardon not granted merciless and cold
a harvest of apology’s acceptance lost
in resentment anger fear and insecurity
seeds o...
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Categories:
shrivels, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Mind of a Child
..."A hand reaches for the unveiled and that’s the child’s mind.”
- Quote by Poet
The child’s mind is a camera,
It captures the day’s events down to the smallest details,
None s...
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Categories:
shrivels, child, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
We are dying
...pollution
shrivels lungs
a slow death
we’ve abused
Mother Earth
now we pay
from afar
an angel
softly weeps...
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Categories:
shrivels, pollution,
Form: Other
Future Love
...Hi there!
I am connecting with you in my mind.
Can you hear me when you are?
Every cell in your body is new, our Ship of Theseus!
How dark is your world?
Are you eating healthy foods?
Ar...
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Categories:
shrivels, self, time,
Form: Free verse
Fire and Flood
...This time of year
the lake is an island of cool
in a cauldron of heat.
A few months ago,
the surrounding grass
was fed by flood
and stood tall and green
in a bog.
Now it is bleached, bent ...
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Categories:
shrivels, fire, summer,
Form: Free verse
Mystic Yawn
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Xylometry zaffre zacaton swirl on hyaloid "penumbra phylum".
"Magniloquent melodic" apodictic vinculum survey.
"Wandering wispy whooshes" by wisp...
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Categories:
shrivels, analogy, beauty, creation, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Hearing Voices
...A heavy fog, misty gloom, sadness
Spreads all around me, sinking deeper
Into my spirit, my heart – my depths
Singling me out for the doubt
That feasts on my broken dreams
Devouring all my happin...
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Categories:
shrivels, depression, fear, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
I Die, I Live
...I die
to who I am not
to my anger and resentment
to my fear of ridicule and rejection
to my hurts and misgivings.
to my being vengeful and unforgiving
to my self-sufficiency and isolation
to m...
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Categories:
shrivels, anxiety, forgiveness, growth, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Living In a Dry Land
...The who choose to live in a dry land
must live a very dry life---
too parched to sing, too dried out
by what they call 'reason' to see,
to see they have made it hollow,
a partial thing, a blind...
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Categories:
shrivels, easter, heaven, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages
...I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to break my falle...
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Categories:
shrivels, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Apply the Brake
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Apply the brake on thoughts vicious
Fall not to thrust of lust
Heart shrivels by acts pernicious
Ego misdeeds unjust
Tender love God caress
Open hearts He does bless
Let’s not...
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Categories:
shrivels, angst, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme
I Abandon That Me
...The time-framed mirror made of me
reflects the pernicious perception of fear,
looking at it I’m mortally scared,
and sink immobile in the state of stasis.
An emotion engulfed by trepidation,
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Categories:
shrivels, fear, loneliness, me,
Form: Free verse
The Sea Beckons
...The sea beckons.
The air is heavy with heat,
the sun fries the streets
shrivels up trees
and I feel parched.
Tired I trudge towards the waterfront.
Still the sea beckons.
Sweat runs down my...
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Categories:
shrivels, how i feel, sea,
Form: Free verse
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