PINK FLOYD SAID
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[Verse 1]
Pink Floyd said,
“All you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.”
Do you believe it?
How can that be?
A world in which there
Are no dreams,
Where everything
Is only as it seems—
Was Pink kidding me?
If God is dead
And dreams don’t exist,
If love’s a farce
Then I’m set adrift…
It's hard to breathe,
I got to breathe.
[Chorus]
'Cause I
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Categories:
side(a), confusion, crazy, culture, dark,
Form: Lyric
The B Side Man
I was cut in the studio after the hit had dried its sleeve—
a shadow-track pressed in wax
buried under the melody that crowned them kings
I came with the needle's sigh,
not for applause,
but for the noise you never chose.
The A-side spun through summer air—
windows down, girls laughing loud
boys riding every chorus like a dare.
Me?
I cracked my voice
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Categories:
side(a), loneliness, loss, missing, music,
Form: Narrative
country-side
countryside's bird sounds
in morn's restful quiet peace
traffic starts flowing
sweet mood walks away until
hot sun drops in western sky
daybreak on the porch
swallows chirp, doves coo, crows caw....
those front loaders crank
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Categories:
side(a), appreciation, beauty, bird,
Form: Other
Impartial
I don't take one side or two
In disputes about who’s right
And who’s wrong – it could be you
Or it could be me tonight
But the next day it may turn
The other way round, the pendulum
Swings and all I had to learn
Will be lost in setting sun
Now the nightmares get too real
Heroes drop their marble masks
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Categories:
side(a), depression, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
At The Other Side Of Every Rainbow Is A Mine Field Of Unanswerable Rhetoric
Humanity is sick.
Humanity is fragile.
We come into the
world being taught
the opposite of
these fundamental
truths.
We are taught that everyone is equal,
that everyone deserves a chance.
But the world teaches us differently.
It doesn’t care who you are—
only what you’re worth,
only what you can
give before you
are broken.
But the truth is sharper—
there are no guarantees,
only chances taken
and chances lost.
What good were
our
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Categories:
side(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Lighter Side of Faith
The sun provides me light from without
My faith provides it from within
On days when no light shines on my skin
What’s within dispels any doubt
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Categories:
side(a), faith, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Sunny-Side Up
The Summer sun shimmered upon the lake.
Sunny-side up, the sky, the brightest soak.
Its reflection - a breathing space intake.
Stay on the path for its easy, light yolk.
The darker side, with two-sail boat, deep sighs.
In awe of ebb and flow, in Spirit’s glide.
In the shadow of God, in morning rise,
before your chores call you - a
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Categories:
side(a), light, summer,
Form: Sonnet
This Side Of My Skin
I blame it for the pain
As i try and understand its secrets
As it’s forms and folds wraps itself around me
Its supposed to protect the me from the world
But I cannot make sense of the curved markings painted across it
im supposed to take care of it
keep it smooth
perfect for the picture
but i am
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Categories:
side(a), 11th grade, anxiety, body,
Form: Free verse
Country side
**The Country Kind of Love**
In the beginning, there was a love that blossomed in the heart of the countryside. We would lie in an old hammock, sheltered by the sycamore trees, feeling the cool breeze brush against our skin. Those moments were a glimpse of the joys of country living: a large pitcher
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Categories:
side(a), abuse, city, color,
Form: Free verse
Side-By-Side
Shagged in the back of a shotgun shack
at night by moonlight
peeping past curtains of burlap sack
such a sore sight
surrounded by fields of green
willing as she'd been
tho' torn
she surely wasn't about to be seen
with a child out of wedlock born
so with a bun in the oven
she had her Dad invite he
who did the dirty deed
and plant
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Categories:
side(a), boy, father, girl, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts of Havana: A Letter from the Other Side
I speak now, not with breath,
But through the bones of history,
Through palms that never bore fruit
Because your embargo starved the soil.
You feared not our weapons—
We had none to match your bombs.
You feared our ideas,
Because they burned too brightly in the dark.
Sixty-two winters and summers,
My people have walked in chains—
Not of iron,
But of isolation, hunger, and
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Categories:
side(a), america, color, discrimination, hate,
Form: Free verse
The Other Side of the Pillow
In the dark of night, where dreams bear bloom,
and silence reigns in my shadowed room,
my pillow waits, serene, composed,
awaiting my sleepy head to doze.
Beneath my head it yields its form,
to cradle my crown from day’s storm,
and offer a sweet night’s repose,
yet pillow’s thoughts, who really knows?
She seems so sweet, pretends to care,
yet every night disturbs
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Categories:
side(a), dream, funny, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Sunny Side
Always walk on the sunny side of the street
where the grass is always greener
my advice... give a wide berth to the shady side
(unlike Little Red riding the 'hood)
as over there the streets are meaner
better yet focus on the good
where life is pleasantly serener
maintain a positive outlook
and keep a cheerful demeanour
please don't be annoyed vex or
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Categories:
side(a), emotions, fun, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Lighter side of things
The road is long,
unexpected happenings
I found the perfect place to live,
not knowing the crisis I would endure
The waves rolled in,
The world spun around me
As I literally fought for my life
While I recover, I have many thoughts
I don't focus on the disruption to my new peaceful place
I am grateful for the timing, the lighter side of
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Categories:
side(a), appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
At The Side
Dark days have come and gone and I am still lingering on the lawn, long painful nights have robbed me of my sleep and sometimes it makes my spirit weep. I have already ran a thousand mile and the shadows moving in the sky understands my innate cry but the moment quickly fades away and
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Categories:
side(a), america, blessing, business, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
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