Tempestuous Self-Esteem
...Expectations brings
about self deprecations,
sometimes I wonder if
the thoughts running
through my head are
my own or somebody
else’s?
The world lives
in constant turmoil,
waves crashi...
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Categories:
suppressing, conflict, emotions, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Though an atheist
...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation
After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories:
suppressing, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
Lunas Improbable Utopia
...Sky shining like a golden medallion
Colorful as a vibrant rainbow
Not just red, white and blue
Love flowing from the rivers
Cascading down like waterfalls
Suppressing, drowning corruption
Und...
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Categories:
suppressing, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Nine Months Ago Part 1
...These next _ minutes are going to be hard...
I open my eyes
Not sure what time it is,
but I bet I can guess.
The drugs never work
for more than 2 hours,
and the distress from the
pressure i...
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Categories:
suppressing, anxiety, depression, health, mental
Form: Spoken Word
RightWing UnWoken
...It's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.
All sacred EarthTribes
could...
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Categories:
suppressing, america, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
If I Didn’t Believe
...
If I didn’t believe
Nothing on earth would remember
The heart of me… why I breath
Colors of laughter, golden pieces
Of a light, shadowed by time
A light, softly spelling out a smile
A ...
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Categories:
suppressing, blessing, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Broken generation caught within the web
...When looking at reflections
it draws and paints from a spirit
certain visions sit on the sidelines set aside
afraid to choose honestly
and grow a backbone straightened by facts
in those refu...
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Categories:
suppressing, betrayal, conflict, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Justice
...The wild wind plays its part.
Orchids on my Lord's yard
Blown and thrown apart.
They were meant to fall?
Before coming of age?
The suspects were to be summoned at once.
"No such intentions I...
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Categories:
suppressing, conflict, fate, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Interrogation
..."I would rather be on a leaky ship that is mine, than aboard a more seaworthy vessel going where I don't wish it to go"—Poet's alter ego
Yes, I know what I’m doing
I’m the master of my fate
The ...
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Categories:
suppressing, angst, character, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Overcast
...clouds cold
subduing, suppressing
entity, inhabitant
activity ambivalent
bone-chilling
inhale
brilliance of sun
stark shining dreams
embodiment of
exuberance
...
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Categories:
suppressing, weather,
Form: Tanka
Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
...Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
Qualifications of a criminal mind
Magnifications of virtue in all of mankind
Qauntifications of meaning you cannot seem to find
Fractal notations in dreaming t...
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Categories:
suppressing, life,
Form: Rhyme
a fading friendship
...I think friendship breakups are so weird—
From belly laughs and soul-deep chats, moonlit strolls and silly spats,
Yet another slip and the thread of camaraderie is severed,
casting shadows upon th...
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Categories:
suppressing, 11th grade, appreciation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Manifesto
...Deprivation of my rights and freedom
Bodily autonomy, tossed out of
a terrace window, seventy-third floor
of a building in New York that touches
the same ground I walk on, yet reaches much
h...
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Categories:
suppressing, political, women,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Counterintuitive
...It's late, lo. I knew that the water I saw was mirage.
This is a world where, often, facts and fancies camouflage
Depths that seem unfathomable are shallow when measured.
Within wombs of tombs tha...
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Categories:
suppressing, confusion, life,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty
...Beauty like the sweet grapes of a grapevine, like a goddess it rises to the call of mother nature, a creation in wonderful sight qualifying the eyes of men into light, a quality endowed by women, a q...
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Categories:
suppressing, 11th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Free verse
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