Keyboard Courage
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"Online, I'm so bold,"
Then speechlessness meets your eyes,
Real words, fear takes hold.
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Categories:
speechlessness, irony,
Form: Senryu
Freedom from Speech
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Speechlessness is a state of mind
~ Mindlessness is not a state of speech
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Categories:
speechlessness, confusion, irony, language, spoken
Form: Monoku
Chapter 79 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Birthday Party
...Dolly woke first kissed Damian
On his cheek. He was still asleep.
Today was July 27th Dolly
Thought, "Oh my Goodness."
"Today is me and Molly's
Birthday. Justin and
Jordan turned 10 in Apr...
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Categories:
speechlessness, birth, confidence, dance, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Shock and Awe
...shock
electric, astound
zapping, traumatizing, reacting
speechlessness, surprise, spellbound, thrill
bedazzling, gaping, impressing
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Categories:
speechlessness, creation, emotions, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
Goodbye: Upon the Death of Sibling
...Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought,
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not.
His sister recently had passed from Earthly life to next,
And left h...
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Categories:
speechlessness, angst, brother, cancer, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of Silence
...Crickets sit chirping
and echo our speechlessness
at the night’s beauty....
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Categories:
speechlessness, animal, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Death, Be Not Proud
...Death, be not so proud,
Today might roar thine dark clouds,
Be not still so proud,
Morrow, life will call aloud,
Thou shalt in a crowd wear shroud.
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Categories:
speechlessness, death, pride,
Form: Tanka
Year End Brag Letter
...Normalcy seemed to resound
like a year-end brag letter,
for out of reach are those possibilities
when locked up in a ward.
Voices itched inside her body
and creepies crawled along her skin.
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Categories:
speechlessness, loss, memory, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Eligibility
...The day my life went ape ‘chit’ in no more than three-hundred words
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch counts
And pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis works won...
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Categories:
speechlessness, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Spellbound
...Kurt had enough of being told to adhere to streamlined expectations
He took revenge on prescriptions’ illiterate figures of speechlessness
Inconsebustible he recosseted the unsetentionable av...
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Categories:
speechlessness, dedication,
Form: Blank verse
Threat of Extinction
...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed
Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts
A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning
Letters ...
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Categories:
speechlessness, poems,
Form: Free verse
Split In Half
...In the speechlessness
of your breathlessness,
I breathe vigorously
to arouse your former arising,
too afraid to touch
a corpse in the making.
Could another's spare years
restore your time?...
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Categories:
speechlessness, bereavement, death, giving, grief,
Form: Free verse
Speechlessness
...Sometimes I get trapped in speechlessness
Wondering if my words are less
Weighing no stress
An address to address quiet minds from distress
Holding my voice in hand
I thrive to speak my mind
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Categories:
speechlessness, abuse, caregiving, character, children,
Form: Verse
Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac...
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Categories:
speechlessness, evil,
Form: Free verse
Life On Mars
...A small group of survivors,
Heading towards the hostile planet mars,
One spaceship, one ride, no return,
Looking back to what was left of earth,
As it faded into the far distance,
Was there any...
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Categories:
speechlessness, poems,
Form: Free verse
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