Substitution Poems - Poems about Substitution

... The future won’t arrive with trumpets— no brass echo to herald salvation, no golden scroll unrolled beneath a bleeding sun. It will leak, like soft radiation through the seams of our sleep,......

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...(a university-life vignette) It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks......

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...Adoptee Victim of the Holidays by Corey Quinn (Chaotic rhyme scheme to match my emotional state) As I enter the home to over salted deviled eggs, loud dogs and poisonous side conversations, the a......

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...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now... despite entrenched familiar obsessive compulsive disorder behavior distracting me courtesy countless what if scenarios, particularly before und......

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...Like uncared unfulfilled wishes creeping to the fore Irresistible! Impossible, yet? Dilemmatic? Shy about removing the robe that might reveal the core Could the cut be covered with the costliest ......

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..."I don't call them New Year's Resolutions. I prefer the term: Casual Promises to myself that I am under no legal obligation to fulfill." ......

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...Oh Contention civil liberties that I so mention enduring the cooperating social groups non-functional non-binary confused disrupted abused circumstance non-existent analytical di......

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...I thought of you alot today While sitting near the bridge I wonder, did your ears ring? Even just a smidge? Well all I know is if they did They must have rang alot You were on my mind so much......

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...Eviscerate my being! Distort my face! Bring me closure to my ego; replace! Seizure in dark games through which we interlace, Beckoning the reaper's embrace. Subvert my empathy! Break me in......

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...While trickling thick amber honey in my black decoffied coffee I wonder why I never noticed until just ever now How refined white sugar has monopolized my wider full-hued view of more nurturi......

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...There was a time when I was at my best I can recall no question about my success, Now I have reached the stage called rest The time in life when I’ve earned a recess, I must admit I a......

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...Dihing, adjoining borderline with Arunachal, on the foothills of mighty Patkai, In the encircling mesas of terrestrial plains of high altitud......

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...Relished thoughts remain in cheerful hearts not ridden by storms; they protect them always be it pain, or be it joy: then, can spring signify life in some inconceivable aspect and promises ex......

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...Systemic racism is a social/cultural pattern of racial prejudice originating within individuals and their anecdotal experiences and lack of multiculturally enriching discernment Shedding ligh......

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...Congratulations, Alex love, your wedding day is here, The time has come to have and hold the one that you call dear, The love you share between you is both timeless and sincere, Your future will b......

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