Will-o’-the-wisp Reignites the Flame
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The Will-o’-the-Wisp never stays still.
It ignites a dare,
tempting the watchers to chase its glow.
Its tongues of flame don’t just flicker—
they sear deep into the minds of those,
who dare ...
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Categories:
subsided, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
An Evening Composition
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The noise of the day
has subsided and folded
into a quiet
under the soft covers
of a July evening.
The eyes seem to resist
the particular and instead
focus on nothing
but the sum - the g...
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Categories:
subsided, art, self, spiritual, world,
Form: Free verse
Closes all doors
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I knew, and you knew, that if I listened to "Unchained Melody,"
I would have given up yesterday. Without the praises and disappointments, those long, deep sighs experienced during moments of pass...
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Categories:
subsided, absence, anger,
Form: Alliteration
P H E W
...As the heat subsided
A cool grayness crept in
Exhausted shadows slept
Limp leaves exhaled hope
Open windows inhaled it
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Categories:
subsided, weather,
Form: Free verse
you will feel much better
...My cough was empty, my lungs struggling
There was no mucus, I was worn out from the hacking
My mother put Vicks vapor rub all over me
The soles of my feet, my back, my neck, my chest
It was two...
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Categories:
subsided, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Divided Sky
...Divided Sky
Relentless downpour.
Reflections through rain puddles.
Angry lightning.
Wind binding.
Over-cast darkly.
Thunder striking.
Dark tones through juxtaposition.
Divided sky, em...
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Categories:
subsided, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The Boat
...The Boat
Where do you stand in your life?
How do you face tomorrow in flight?
What about the 12 men who were worried in the storm?
Believe and be calm like before.
Knowing that you have los...
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Categories:
subsided, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
THE RED
...Thinking I was paralized,
understanding I was torn.
Feeling no love,
and my existence void of any form.
Hovering I felt I had traveled
beyond a dream.
I knew this was torment,
yet I was unab...
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Categories:
subsided, dream, fire, god, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Unintended Innuendo
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“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause
though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminishe...
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Categories:
subsided, emotions, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
If It Never Begins, It’s Poetry
...I tried to unlove you, I swear I tried,
But your eyes pull me, like waves to the shore,
How can I forget what never died?
I search for you where the lost hopes hide,
A glance from you—my heart ...
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Categories:
subsided, dream,
Form: Villanelle
Implants from Hell
...In a world where beauty's often measured and defined,
A girl at twenty, had dreams intertwined,
She sought about change, a shape to embrace,
But little did she know, it would alter her grace...
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Categories:
subsided, beautiful, beauty, body, change,
Form: Free verse
In the Court of The Fisher King,
...In the Court of The Fisher King,
He sits ceaseless, and unyielding.
So weep his wounds and sores to the e'er senescent march of mortal ages.
A King enshrined in stone,
no bait upon that sim...
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Categories:
subsided, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Locusts in the Alley
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In the old graveled alley, overgrown with weeds,
at footfall, locusts sprang and leaped,
triggering a riot.
But soon their swelling motion
subsided like fried popcorn on a skillet...
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Categories:
subsided, image, life, sound,
Form: Verse
Mothers-Yours-Mine
...An image of a bottle feeder attached to my brother’s cage,
his crib - a newfangled breast without arms; only the arm
of an anti-motherly technique sold by the public freak.
I laugh, loads. I kno...
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Categories:
subsided, america, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Elegy For Kasiita
...On a cold, dark night, I stand alone
In the graveyard, where shadows are thrown
Deeply mourning, I weep at the mention
Of your name, dear Kasiita, my heart's lament
In my darkest moments, dress...
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Categories:
subsided, death, family, heartbroken, loss,
Form: Elegy
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