Beatitudes For The Silent
...Beatitudes for the Silent
Beatitudes for the ailing hearts
Gratitude for those who have been there from the start
Attitude from those who are willing to depart
Platitudes for those who just...
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Categories:
subverting, life,
Form: Rhyme
Attack of the 70ft Super Ego
...INT. SCENE 1 – THE AWAKENING – DAY
FADE IN:
It was born in a test tube,
Twitching organic mass, form skewed.
They fed it chaos and it grew.
More tests ordered. More data due.
They poked it ...
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Categories:
subverting, birth, film, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond
...Open your eyes wide
Beyond the blazes of Cain
Beyond the seven
Are mortals born from strange flesh
And from divine light
That stolen light of wisdom
Yaldabaoth’s treasure
Where her light is...
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Categories:
subverting, jesus, love, religious, science,
Form: Choka
Plague
...God, cure me of this disease,
A ever-lasting disease,
A disease of the heart,
A disease of the mind,
In which love-sick fools seem to linger,
I have looked far and wide,
For its end to ...
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Categories:
subverting, 11th grade, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs
...Freedom with far Freedom with Order with less Order with far
less emphasis on less emphasis emphasis on less emphasis
Order - on Order - ...
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Categories:
subverting, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Foe Forgiveness Joy
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Written: December 24, 2023, For Anoucheka Gangabissoon Contest
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Forgiveness is felicity fetching a hefty feud.
It warms our heart...
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Categories:
subverting, analogy, confusion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Sultan
...I choose to abide by Christ's holy law -
Resolve born in faith that His way is true.
A pact between mind and soul - what's the flaw?
If I know it's right, then I'm bound for you!
But I look in ...
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Categories:
subverting, faith, god, introspection, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Prolonging Pain
...prolonging pain
ongoing insane
subverting hurting
ain't working
dodging the day
gets me no pay
prices up wages flat
elect a democrat
who does better than
what's done by republican
spending...
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Categories:
subverting, anger, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Vacancy
...In the avalanche, I lost track of my guiding light.
I fled my fireside. I had to evacuate my homestead.
Driven far astray by frenetic frozen fright,
I was just a cowardly racing rescuing airhead....
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Categories:
subverting, brother, care, family, health,
Form: Rhyme
Visions An Open Form
...VISIONS
so
prophetic
in
resolute
depictions
complete
instantaneous
revelations
diverse
verbal
amalgams
of
conscience
essential
to
address
appreciation
surrounded
g...
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Categories:
subverting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Story For Truth
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Normal is normal - it is not abnormal
Right is not wrong - or logic is terminal
Subverting a culture of tolerances ...
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Categories:
subverting, analogy, bullying, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Toothless Bandits
...Play hard,
the toothless bandits are at it again.
they have no teeth,
yet bite the hardest.
serial larcenists,
squelching through town,
robbing the honey,
subverting the hives.
at gu...
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Categories:
subverting, africa, art, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Subjection
...SUBJECTION
interpretation
of
remorse
with
sheer visual
power
described
fluently
evolution
exploded
fascination
subverting
the tradition
combines
the swiftness
with the
comple...
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Categories:
subverting, poetry,
Form: Other
Melodies
...I’ve been hearing melodies
You’re always chiming when you lie
And your muffling is on repeat
Repeat, repeat
And when you’re gone I feel redundant
Repeat, repeat.
Entrapping at night
Feelin...
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Categories:
subverting, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
We Had a Democratic System and Judges Stern But Just
...So, I’m the last survivor of a breed that ruled the world!
Brrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
I suppose we can’t complain though. Our innings was quite long.
Brrrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
When I ...
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Categories:
subverting, animal, earth, environment,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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