The many funerals of a black girlHow many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol of when they would stop and stare
At her hair
When they would make her life a living nightmare
Until she became too aware
Until It became too much to bear
Until she silenced...
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Categories:
silence, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Whispering Shadows in TwilightThe light withdraws—
not abruptly, but with the grace
of someone tiptoeing from a room
...
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Categories:
night, silence,
Form: Concrete
GoodbyeIt lingers.
Not on the lips. Lower.
In the fiber of the tongue,
in the spasming depths of fear,
where words no longer light paths,
but only fester in ancestral silences,
like icons submerged in sacred rubble,
beneath the cracked beams of a church welded shut from within,
where even devils can no longer enter.
Parting is not spoken.
It is torn between teeth,
swallowed...
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Categories:
silence, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Silence in the Cemetery
Written: May 28, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "If you come to visit my grave, my tomb will appear to dance."By Rumi
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Standing rocks that mimic megaliths rise,
Indicating where the eroding skull lies.
She was once a mother suckling with grace,
Now...
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Categories:
silence, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Snow of My Silence A Prisoner’s Lament in SiberiaIn the frostbitten belly of Russia’s spine,
Where the stars are mute and the sun won’t shine,
A man with chains and a shattered past,
Counts the heartbeats that may be his last.
He once wore laughter like a second skin,
Now silence lives deep within his grin.
No mirrors here—only ice and stone,
To remind him daily: he is alone.
They took...
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Categories:
silence, allah,
Form: Free verse
Bones Beneath the TowerInspired by Bob Dylan's "Mississippi"
I was the backbone of your dream—
ribs shaped into beams,
my blood seeping slow,
cementing your tower’s base.
You promised a sky of stars,
a rise beyond all shadows—
but I was just a ghost
etched in your blueprint,
a whisper beneath your tower.
We built forever on lies,
stacking stones on my shoulders—
I was your ground,
your silent sacrifice,
the...
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Categories:
silence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
eclipsedA blot of ink
drifts right of center on the page.
It grows, devours—
Pale pages consumed by black.
I asked the low, bruised clouds
if my life still counts
when my pen scratches a scream—
but no words ever escaped.
My voice chases
cheap ink drips—blurred, bitter,
mourning silence
they failed to fill.
The droplets never reached
my paper, I think,
the darkened sky stole my...
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Categories:
absence, art, cry, silence,
Form: Free verse
The Edge of GoodbyeI saw him in the corridor —
my mind stopped for a moment,
all my emotions rushing back,
stunned, yet I kept walking.
Once I was away,
I crossed a wall —
and broke down,
tears flowing down my cheeks,
words unsaid I couldn’t hold.
I wanted to stay,
to hold on to him,
but I needed to go —
to let go for my peace.
I saw...
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Categories:
silence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Zen modeKiss of stillness releases bliss pheromones,
inking presence with scent of rainbow’s love hues,
sacred ash and sandalwood, teleporting …
soul to nirvana....
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Categories:
joy, love, silence, spiritual,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Colour of the Silent Sea
Colour of the Silent sea
Calm and serene as the silent sea
I wear feel of its cerulean waters
Swim in peace in its tranquility
Let go of negative sentiments
To uphold purity and live in harmony.
...
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Categories:
feelings, peace, sea, silence,
Form: Free verse
In the deep silence of the evening, I remember her needs hidden like a pearl in the shell of timeIn the deep silence of the evening, I remember her needs hidden like a pearl in the shell of time,
the same as yours and mine, never forgotten, never postponed by the wind of oblivion,
a dream that blooms like a flower of light at dawn, carrying promises of infinity and hope,
a desk where ideas take wing...
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Categories:
silence, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
To Karin: A Plain Beyond the CityCoal-brown smoke smudged lightly
with hesitant fingers
into the wet grey sky at the edges,
a yellowing of dried grass
scattered with copper berries
fallen from their vines,
a leaf spinning crazily on a breeze,
a tentative parting of fingertips
and a face turned slightly from mine –
a profile obscured by dark hair –
and eyes scan and count the pylons
for something to do.
The...
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Categories:
silence, farewell, goodbye, imagery, lost
Form: Free verse
whispers from the voidinvoking grace create a rhythm
the type that mirrors God’s heartbeat
that melding with the vibrant void
rapture rises in body prism
softly beeping in heart love’s tweet
whispers etched in head ovoid...
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Categories:
blessing, creation, heart, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Breathless in the void“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”
Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that we may defend,
attachments to which our heart clings,
though all that begins will soon end.
Time holds its breath when our heart sings
and it is...
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Categories:
god, light, self, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat
Breathless in God’s lightLove’s nectar sipped, soul’s thirst quenched,
breathless thus in bliss mists drenched,
happenstance when we’re in trance,
God making erect our stance.
In the zone beyond space-time,
in the void sounds heaven’s chime,
strobes of light that sing love’s song,
when soul’s presence strikes God’s gong.
Light that lights all lights whence seen,
streamed on earth as aura’s sheen,
caused when pheromones mingle,
makes then...
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Categories:
god, silence, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
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