I Dream In Poetry
...I will not write this gorgeous
Poem tonight for she sleeps
Gently in my mind dreaming of
Beauty and Forever fragrant
Fields dreams of quiet and
Unique Picturesque. I, having a
Kind of mind ...
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Categories:
striken, cry, day, fantasy, flower,
Form: Prose
Sight
...I used to be torn
With what was and what will be
Now, I see the present as immortality
Death is an illusion
That preys on the perception of time
A friend that will release me
From the presenc...
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Categories:
striken, change, desire, emotions, growth,
Form: Free verse
Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
...Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
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Categories:
striken, animal, death, earth, life,
Form: Haiku
Unforgettable Sad Moment In My High School
...heart snapped off hearing the news of my friend's unforeseen scarring mishap
Disclaimer: This unpredicted incident happened in the year 2009 when I was in 9th grade.My friend...
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Categories:
striken, 9th grade, childhood, class,
Form: Monoku
In Love
...Sometimes I look at you and I get Lost
A feeling that blows off my mind like chaff
Lost like a bee drowning in the nectars
I feel warm and I watch you like a movie
Your charming face ignites warm...
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Categories:
striken, cute, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse
Mistress and Her True Love
...He was striken with sudden illness
Had been taken to the hospital
For immediate diagnose
And extract reason for the cause;
As he jumped down from the car ..
To embrace him she ran
May ...
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Categories:
striken, dark, destiny, heartbroken, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Covid19 Pandemic
...You swept the world out of its feet
Made it tumblin, chillin, crumblin
All of its parts seem to echo with crying
For you to stop, they all kept pleading
But with your sudden grand entrance
F...
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Categories:
striken, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Race Against Time
...A race against time ..
As her life is faced with challenges..
A tragic loss of a loved one ..
Grief strikes her like a hot iron..
The pain intensifies as it shoots through her heart..
Paralyzed ...
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Categories:
striken, encouraging, grief, inspirational, loss,
Form: Personification
True Empathy
...What would the world be like
If those on top of living
learn to look down and see the life of others ,
who's struggles and throes to survive for existing,
And learn to stand in one good stead
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Categories:
striken, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Broken Me
...Broken Me
One last tear
That fell like a song
I learnt from you
You walked away
Leaving those words behind
Let me breathe slower
In the melody hidden within
For my striken heart aches
Stuc...
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Categories:
striken, heartbreak, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
I Was Once a Poet
...I was once a poet weaving the lines of joy like a love-striken damsel,
Hoping the day would never come when the cock would crow three times,
I was once a boy dreaming dreams of a blissful life,
Sc...
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Categories:
striken, age,
Form: Free verse
This Poem Is a Cut
...Away, Melancholia
rhymless
life striken root
Away, Melancholia
you
dandelion sun
terrace shadow
want of want
Melancholia,
gateless fable
withheld of word
of that unwalked path
Mela...
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Categories:
striken, november,
Form: Free verse
Broken
...Whatever bind that bounds us has been broken
For all the time I knew I never thought I'd be forsaken.
Yet after all and everything you are forgiven
Even though all the love we had has been taken.
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Categories:
striken, betrayal, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Setting Sail For Italy
...Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon.
Then he'll depart carryin...
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Categories:
striken, character, city, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
No Full Stop
...The titanium in me explodes and burns
so much that even oceanic amounts
of the waters cannot stand its rage.
I adore you and reverence your body so madly
that the awareness of my breathe
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Categories:
striken, beauty, romance, romantic, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
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