Distance Between Us
...I clock in the time that I arrived but all my explanation was in vain, you did not listen to a word that I say and you kept giving me the blame, if I say A, you say B and if I say He, you say She,...
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Categories:
sprinting, america, career, community, england,
Form: Narrative
Uncommon Ancestor
...I am wearing heavy feathers
with the gaze of the day lit to my backside.
A rotisserie routine,
hot with punishment and prayer.
Prayer for punishment,
punishment for prayer.
Answers from a sky...
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Categories:
sprinting, analogy, death, depression, god,
Form: Free verse
Clocked
...hands steady, painting days wanning now wearing shades
of hours
clocks run blind tocs, with tics wildly lying
months lurk like monks or thugs,
deeply hooded
in a guise of weeks muttering ridicul...
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Categories:
sprinting, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Under the dark sky of 2025, where the Genetic Basin pulses
...Under the dark sky of 2025, where the Genetic Basin pulses
like an overloaded server beneath the shadows of a Sulimi,
my thoughts flow like a faulty algorithm through 6G networks,
whistling beneat...
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Categories:
sprinting, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When I saw Dilly dally
...When I saw Dilly dally
I thought, "Oh no, this kid's got to rally!
Cuz if he loses this race,
it'll be a total disgrace,
cuz this race was right up his alley.
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Categories:
sprinting, 12th grade, encouraging, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Songbird
...Lirena was a songbird born of yore
Who dearly loved her husband everyday;
She sings her songs of contentment no more.
An adversary’s troops ransacked the shore,
A ruthless marauding they did di...
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Categories:
sprinting, bereavement, bird, courage, death,
Form: Villanelle
The Leaves Are Hushed
...The Leaves are Hushed
Alone
she stares through a skylight
playing I spy with the sky,
creating fantastical creatures
out of skimming, brimming clouds.
Suddenly
a shadow swiftly smears a w...
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Categories:
sprinting, death, fear, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Morning Turns the Page
...Morning Turns the Page
Night lies softly across the beach,
as delicate as a black, silken scarf,
while, underneath its dark veil,
the sea is blue tissue paper
with whitened finger tips
wrapp...
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Categories:
sprinting, beach, imagery, travel,
Form: Free verse
A-May-Zing
...Old familiar tune of Happy Birthday,
Along its line I fell in love with May.
As long as I remember from the start,
It etched for good into my childhood heart.
On the same date as ...
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Categories:
sprinting, birthday,
Form: Couplet
With Intention of Death
...(This is different from the poems I write. It has a lot of blood and may be sensitive.)
Peaceful wind, scented blow; the crisp air, while fragrant, smelling of one of nutmeg. The cool breez...
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Categories:
sprinting, angst, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Moments of Stillness
...Some day, Some hours I sat still,
As thoughts wove their silence of will.
Gazing at the sky ,my mind began sprinting,
I,rooted like a stone,yet new thoughts keep getting.
The soul's window ke...
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Categories:
sprinting, 12th grade,
Form: Couplet
Age old war
...Heart and Brain are at war over a sinking ship,
"There's too much baggage!" cries Brain.
We must let it go or we'll sink and die!
The ship drowning in it's rusting pain.
"Only these anchors ar...
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Categories:
sprinting, age, conflict, confusion, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
In The Moment
...There is nothing to distinguish
this day from any other
down on the beach
children splash into the shallows
dogs sprinting after soggy balls
flung from loose limbed strollers
while swall...
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Categories:
sprinting, appreciation, beauty, celebration, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Running in Pace
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Running to escape
running from trouble
Pick up the pace
quick, on the double
Sweat pouring down
feet pounding the ground
Second wind comes along
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Categories:
sprinting, celebration, destiny, motivation, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Heart
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Written: February 19, 2024
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The dam, in which
the tissue residue is present
has a saline ecosystem
despite the dryness
It is st...
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Categories:
sprinting, analogy, appreciation, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse
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