The Nestle
...A branch, long and slender,
With thin thorny tips, free and tender.
A drop like bag of grass weave sag,
Tied beneath the shreds with a tight tag.
Alone in nestle, quietly sunk,
A fine cool bre...
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Categories:
smoothens, appreciation, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Ripley
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It’s quiet here
Now that you’re gone
The floors don’t speak softly
Missing your steps
The wind blows
without sound
But stings
All the same
I turn my head
To try and find you
Then ...
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Categories:
smoothens, death, dog,
Form: Free verse
You are the silence that envelops me in the bosom of the night
...You are the silence that envelops me in the bosom of the night,
When words retreat into their timid shadow,
The sacred interval between the tolling of bells,
Announcing the zenith of our misunders...
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Categories:
smoothens, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Life
...Life is like a rough, rutted road,
With rocks to trip, to catch and hold.
But love can smoothens the path ahead,
If we cast out hatred instead.
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Categories:
smoothens, 2nd grade, desire, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
A Bird In My Garden
...I spotted a robin among many birds in my garden mead
Tilting its head this side and that, looking for some feed
It wasn't to satisfy its hunger but for its young ones to be fed
It had lovely feath...
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Categories:
smoothens, beautiful, bird, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Somersault
...Somersault, flips and swings like an oar
Cup of salt, flings and stings on floor
Powder of talc, smoothens all
Slides and glides over all
Skip, stretch, turn or twist
Huff, puff like whist
Hear...
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Categories:
smoothens, art, sports,
Form: Nonet
Zen Mode
...habituated to joy currents
we encourage bliss magnetism
to dance within our body as it likes
but it's pain that we choose to resist
and therefore feral residue yet remains
within fee...
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Categories:
smoothens, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Not a Day Goes Past
...not a day goes past
without me being grateful
for your love kindness compassion
and willingness to share
your life with mine
you have saved me from myself
many times and I happen to know
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Categories:
smoothens, depression,
Form: Free verse
Rotate Consciousness Polarity
...Rotation of consciousness, like grease in axis,
Smoothens the meditation process in praxis;
Yoga Nidra, like the sleep, relaxes each part,
Meditation, like music, turns an art of heart...!
Is...
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Categories:
smoothens, life, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Awareness Self-Aware
...We cannot often enough
smoothens out our edges rough,
down to the subtlest layer,
in gentle, mindful prayer.
Continuous correction
steers consciousness direction,
aligned with the...
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Categories:
smoothens, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Joy
...Dawn sings with the birds
As we stamp the earth at our wake
No one feels amazed at never waking
Who fixes it's emptiness with food
Smoke it's sausages and enjoy it's delicacies
Joy Sparks in eve...
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Categories:
smoothens, blessing, cool, emotions, environment,
Form: Blank verse
A Woman
...As I beheld a flower of rare beauty
In the silence choked heart of wilderness
The facsimile of a pretty woman came alive
From the coagulated heap of images
A woman…….!
Isn’t she God’s supr...
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Categories:
smoothens, beauty, daughter, women,
Form: Blank verse
Light
...THE LIGHT
Let there be light and there was light
That light can dispel darkness
But that light come from the Light, the Creator.
This Light can dispel the darkness of despair
This Light penetr...
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Categories:
smoothens, angel, beauty, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
O My Bubu Princess
...
You are the royal bubbles
In our eyes as your dimples
melt our plight hope we both find
In our minds
Princess
you are the essence
of our love
As our fate dissolves
In your v...
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Categories:
smoothens, age, baby, beautiful, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree
...Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree
By Izunna Okafor
From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register its purpose to man...
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Categories:
smoothens, 8th grade, best friend,
Form: Epic
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