Thief of Joy Steals The Day
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comparison steals
the laughter from tomorrow -
shadow's reprimand
strangles joy of tender blooms
by coveting other fields
the spark of the self
wanes beside a brighter flame
lit in other h...
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Categories:
strangles, fun, nature,
Form: Lyric
Poison Pill Song
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[Verse 1]
Dance near the silver bridge
Drop a penny in
A penny for your thoughts
You smiled like the end of the world
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[Pre-Chorus – Extended]
You wrap your soul around me
Like s...
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Categories:
strangles, loss, love,
Form: Lyric
Howling Wilderness
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Gnarled trees yawn under a starless sky
As a swift coldness mixes with the "howling wilderness,”
Crescendos until pure silence strangles the macabre atmosphere.
Preparing for the imminent j...
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Categories:
strangles, beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Among Shadows
...In a world where whispers strike like stones,
Where unseen eyes cast chilling tones,
Where silent shadows weave their thread,
The Lord walks close beside my tread.
When hearts grow cold and han...
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Categories:
strangles, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Rooted
...Today, my hair is jazz—
wild coils improvising in the wind,
syncopated with no apology.
It scats when I walk,
riffs when I laugh,
and plays the truth off-key
because it knows perfection
never ...
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Categories:
strangles, hair,
Form: Other
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
strangles, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
Fatherly Haikus
...Courage is action
When terror strangles your heart
You act anyways
Violence subdued, men
Become peaceful, not harmless
Peace is self control.
Love exists only
When acted upon in pain
Lov...
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Categories:
strangles, father, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
90 Mile Beach
...90 Mile Beach
Watching the waves surrender
The beauty of this dance
Played out like a contract killing
The wind rips at the land like a starving rat
Angry at the moon for the tide
Screa...
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Categories:
strangles, anxiety, birth, boy, child,
Form: Bio
Gun shots in my neighborhood
...#The_gun_shots_in_my_neighborhood
My heart bleeds, as my mind wonders, I wonder if it be not a mother's child at the receiving end, wondering if while I'm busy wondering there be a life that's being...
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Categories:
strangles, anxiety, bereavement, community, night,
Form: Free verse
voyeur
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cold rain
to slow-streak the
glass I watch you through -
you and your
christ ...
the ginger bread man,
sugar daddy savior, all that
I was not, (and less) ...
choices of
compromise, to prov...
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Categories:
strangles, analogy, break up, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless
...Hands of time are pacing, I'm idled and numb. Dreams and wishes that never wanna materialize, stare in the far reach of my hopes, only dust traces are witnessed. Impatience, cripples my sanity, I wan...
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Categories:
strangles, character, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
reconnection
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like Icarus choking on his wing’s wax
Phoenix too laden with ashes to rise
Sisyphus stoned by rock bottom
an Angel suffocating on its halo
the witch seeks to be a Fairy Queen
assembles the m...
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Categories:
strangles, perspective,
Form: Free verse
I gave my love to the Light
...I gave my love to the Light
I loved a woman very, and for so long, she didn’t accept my feelings of love; I lost everything
Years have passed, and my life almost too, I lost my present life, but ...
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Categories:
strangles, fate, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Evil in me
...How much can i be vicious?
How much can i be worst ?
If i stop forgetting and start holding..
The devil whispers in my ear
Heart started to sink .
Lets just forgive
Then here comes villainous...
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Categories:
strangles, 4th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
free to feel the way I feel
...You don’t know how it feels
To be misunderstood and jaded
You won’t ever know till it kills you inside
To you, I speak words of wisdom
And it feels like I’m a million miles away
Just to feel iso...
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Categories:
strangles, angst, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
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