In the deep silence of the night, when the sky unfolds its mantle
...In the deep silence of the night, when the sky unfolds its mantle,
I drift, dreamlike, among constellations of thoughts that embrace the moon,
A solitary soul, like a forgotten temple beneath falli...
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Categories:
solitary soul, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
meteorologist : Sky to Sea
... meteorite radiates z o o o m m i n g
crashes onto
Three Anchor Bay turquoise
sky dust onto beach white grains
winds sweep cobbled paths profane
a fetus acquires soli...
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Categories:
solitary soul, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Ballad
Memory Motif
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In lonesome bouquet laced with lilt of love
lies embedded the frozen fragrance
of remote reminiscence,
enticing the defrosted solitary soul
to reflect someday the sunshine
in faded memo...
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Categories:
solitary soul, analogy, memory,
Form: Free verse
Hermit
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Hermit
self-assured
solitary soul
longing eyes
staring far
peering down his inner self
forgetting himself.
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Categories:
solitary soul, self, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Shadorma
APOLOGY OF TRAITORS
...I first learned to exhume the malice buried in their words,
Those grimoires of hatred, cruelty, savagery, and ignominy,
So I might understand upon which marble I carved the sanctity of my dignity.
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Categories:
solitary soul, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Cold Embrace of Death
...Though the sun had begun bleeding in the West
With an explorer’s gait, I walked jumping over gutters
My track, flanked with knee high grass and nettles
Also, wild bushes of all kinds that grew in ...
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Categories:
solitary soul, death, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Embrace Of Faded Memory
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In the frozen air and frost gripping the malachite meadow
within the mystique mask of the arctic dawn,
defoliated lone tree wrapped by dismal melancholy,
stands static as shadowless se...
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Categories:
solitary soul, dream, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Great Yearning
...Unquenching thirst in scorching sands
With doleful steps as if once banned,
From mother home, lost paradise
While wandering wayward days and nights.
As scorpions sting and vipers’ hiss
With b...
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Categories:
solitary soul, allegory,
Form: Kyrielle
The Other Half of Me
...Many years ago, I’d been seeing
My whole life in front of me.
Like a tale, I could tell how it’d end,
By simply looking at how it begins.
Thinking I’d been born this way,
Without any luck.
With...
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Categories:
solitary soul, growth, introspection, longing, loss,
Form: Narrative
The Confessions of a Tormented Soul
...I poison myself to endure the torments of my clairvoyant mind,
A journey littered with catastrophes and irreversible scars.
I chase nightmares I will find in hell,
My face drowned in the fleeting ...
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Categories:
solitary soul, black love,
Form: Free verse
In the deep silence of the night, every whisper about her was an act of betrayal
...In the deep silence of the night, every whisper about her was an act of betrayal,
A knife hidden beneath the tongue, and to know her was the ultimate sin,
A slip into the abysses of guilt, a dance ...
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Categories:
solitary soul, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch II
...The Fisher
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation by Michael R. Burch
The river swirled and rippled;
nearby an angler lay,
and watched his lure with a careless eye,
like any other day.
Bu...
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Categories:
solitary soul, dream, moon, river, song,
Form: Rhyme
A Silent Room
...The silence presses heavy, thick,
Like walls that close with every tick.
I walk through days, but none I own,
A shadow lost, a heart unknown.
My family’s gone, my friends are far,
The ...
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Categories:
solitary soul, anxiety, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light
...In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light,
A magical and melancholic poem unfolds, with equal verses, tightly woven.
Inspired by the nature of the poet, that soli...
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Categories:
solitary soul, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye to Romance
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Oh my beloved,
liberate me from my antagonist.
I feel like a seashell washed
upon an abandoned shore.
I try to leave footprints for you to find me,
but the tide keeps washing them away.
In...
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Categories:
solitary soul, loneliness, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
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