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Premium Member Words We Cannot Escape
... “Words We Cannot Escape” Words we can no longer speak we tap dance over keys bruised blackly numb Winter palette in hand Autumn now gone across white-washed n......

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Categories: striven, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Nobody of Renown
...Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest Of money, power and fame, But live their lives in “quiet desperation,” As Thoreau once famously claimed. As for me I once believed I was headed ......

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Categories: striven, freedom, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



The all seeing eye
...The eye of truth The eye of perception The Eye of Horus Defrauds deception It pierces the soul It reads the heart It sits in the pyramids Upper part. The All Seeing Eye Never blinks It kn......

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Categories: striven, deep, god, meaningful, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Pie In the Sky
...You have heard of it many times I am sure. and probably of it abjure. I have been driven, striven, to obtain my little slice, please take my advice. I have achieved m......

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Categories: striven, america, work,
Form: Rhyme
Sorry -
...sorry for running when first I should master the art of walking sorry for loving when liking you should have been foremost sorry for wanting and showing little patience and understanding sorry......

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Categories: striven, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Anonymity
...Who can view me behind the fence ferrous! Those infiltrating eyes bear me desirous! Unveiling what was previously hidden. Keeping this same watcher has striven. I figure you ......

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Categories: striven, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ever-Cheerful - a Tribute
...Ever-cheerful and optimistic An island of sanity midst pandemic's panic A voice of reason in a sea of shouts Dr. Janice Jackson, public schools CEO Giving Chicago a leader to crow about ......

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Categories: striven, chicago, education, leadership, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Ode On Dust
...Had a plunderer I, nay thither I thus, how much life is wasted off as if fairly, pace upon pace once more pace upon pace never odds, this occasions a bliss is hither, a bliss is folly, how I hope......

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Categories: striven, adventure, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Emerged Rationalism
...They tell us once there was a crow. Wavering alone in the peril zone The feeble is not straight on a clue. It has been winging since the era of stone. The crow saw the cost of the snare, he sa......

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Categories: striven, adventure, angel, bird, character,
Form: Free verse
Photosynthesis
...Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Helps fund life A plant’s synthesis This is life’s wife Food that is given For others to live To which one is striven To take and give So they stay alive And......

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Categories: striven, angst, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Black Cats Duty
...My name’s Juno, I do my duty, us black cats are quite well suited, for adding scares this time of year, our sharp claws, people often fear. We have a reputation, human-given, and to......

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Categories: striven, cat, halloween, nature, poems,
Form: Rhyme
My Agony
...Simile and metaphor in my poem Substitute for an image of my agony That I feel hurt by a rift In fabric length of my soul, Widened to an unbearable chasm By the irreparable damage, Caused by th......

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Categories: striven, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternity Exists That We May Love
...Eternity Exists That We May Love I hide not our love, its fathomless deep, rising fevers from heart that never sleeps. I love you, as morn's dew kisses the rose a blessing and gem that forever ......

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Categories: striven, beauty, deep, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Within Hall of Heroes His Soul Must Surely Be
...Within Hall Of Heroes His Soul Must Surely Be Within Hall of Heroes his soul must surely be for courage and steadfastness surged in his veins this he truly lived for one and all to see he fough......

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Categories: striven, appreciation, courage, friend, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Life That the Lord Who Is God Created
...WE SEE THE PICTURE OF "THE CORONAVIRUS" IT REALLY IS A SIGHT TO SEE! THE SIGHT OF THE CORONA-VIRUS IS TERRIBLE AN IT IS A LIFE FORM,AND WE KNOW AND REALIZE WHO IS THE CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! IN "TH......

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Categories: striven, 1st grade, 7th grade,
Form: Ballad

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