Stepping Forward
...Step forward now in a brand-new way,
Encourage yourself as David did say.
The balancing acts, the burdens we bear,
With weights in our hands, will soon vanish in air.
As we worship Him, He stea...
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Categories:
steadies, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Zen mode
...stability in oscillations
by adaption and flexibility
relinquishing mental resistance
as a flowing orientation
steadies the flame
we are the sunset
dying without any regret
as also beauteou...
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Categories:
steadies, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
MY EVERYTHING
...My love for you is like a star that shines in the sky,
It guides my idle steps and lights my path.
You are the glow that brightens my life, the warmth that stirs my heart.
I love you for your beau...
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Categories:
steadies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
He Stepped Up
...
He Stepped Up
In the quiet after heartbreak,
When the echoes of the past still stung,
You arrived not demanding,
Not to conquer, but to heal.
You saw the tender places in me,
The parts I ...
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Categories:
steadies, beauty, blessing, confidence, for
Form: Free verse
YOU SURVIVED, and that's the perfect love story
...What a beautiful story this is
a garden blooming after drought
when fire scorched the thirsty earth
and silence sang the darkest song.
You cupped your heart like fragile glass
let quiet wrap a...
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Categories:
steadies, 12th grade, absence, allegory,
Form: Free verse
I'll Kiss Him Like Forever Is An Option, part two
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He knows almost everything. He knows how the migraines come in waves, how they paint lightning behind my eyes and leave me curled in corners, whispering nonsense through the static in my head....
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Categories:
steadies, 10th grade, death, farewell,
Form: Free verse
The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
...Sometimes, I think my soul remembers Him before my mind does, like there is something ancient stitched into my chest that pulses without needing proof. I have never seen Him with my eyes, yet I have ...
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Categories:
steadies, 10th grade, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
fat funny friend
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they always ask me to stay a little longer,
as if laughter came from my skin.
as if I could be unlonely
just by making sure no one else is.
I fill the room,
and yet I’m never
in it.
they...
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Categories:
steadies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely House in the Steppe - 5
...A Wonder in the House
In this house, there’s a wonder, truly rare,
Something strange that hangs heavy in the air.
In her repeated prayers, a name came to light,
“Qusayin, the Ishan,” gave him a...
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Categories:
steadies, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to say
You are the sea—each wave not an argume...
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Categories:
steadies, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Lyric
Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
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We sat in the fallout
of last year’s gift exchange—
smashed angel centerpiece
taped back together
as good as a rogue bomb
if someone mentioned it.
Our voices dragged
like anchors throu...
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Categories:
steadies, christmas,
Form: Free verse
The Narcissist Who Saved Himself - Cynthia Howard - collaboration with Dilly Dally
...nothing spoils this surface view ~ see me
crave attention, gift empty touch
tonal mask veils flaws and vices
face alter ego and kneel
to feed the shallow shadow that circles
~ around ...
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Categories:
steadies, angst, deep, mental health,
Form: Ekphrasis
Our path
...Staid
stillness
steadies our
soul’s intention
to befriend silence,
that thus doing nothing,
pristine heart’s innate vibrance,
sets up an intent wave searching
for God in any shape He...
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Categories:
steadies, silence, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Zen mode
...tingle in the chin node steadies resolve
overseen by the threefold light of Christ within
with the flaming forehead and toroidal heart
entwining with enlivened spine and head ovoid
conjoined with...
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Categories:
steadies, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories:
steadies, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
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