the failure
...The Failure
It is about vanity, a need to see one's name in print
The shortest of glory, five seconds, ten?
Switch off at that point of glory, and the fame can last
until someone else demands t...
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Categories:
switch off, 4th grade, age, anger,
Form: ABC
I can't pay my life
...
I can’t pay my life
No attention. How to pay attention?
A self-driven person. A narcissistic
What can I do? Can’t take care of
On my life. He is closed. A desire
I don’t know him. Maybe ...
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Categories:
switch off, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Ode To An Ocelot
...
Not a lot of ocelots
are seen in the day
they prefer the evening
or the night
if an ocelot you're hot to spot
altho' it's quite a long shot
an ocelot you want to sight
you may even h...
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Categories:
switch off, animal, fun, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Gaza
...Gaza
The baby
Wrapped in a blanket
Looks at the camera
Emaciated face
Large eyes
Incomprehensively
Looks at me
I lower my gaze
Who is going to
Switch off
The killing machine
This harveste...
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Categories:
switch off, absence, abuse, age, angst,
Form: ABC
IT IS TO BE
...IT IS TO BE
To be or not to be, that is the question
That was the famous playwright, I recall
But to some, it might offer a suggestion
That we have no choice about life at all
I can tell you...
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Categories:
switch off, care, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
AI soldiers
...AI as soldiers
We see them walking naked through the town’s square, and organs not needed for the time being, the onlookers are not offended but worried about the strident gates of the new being w...
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Categories:
switch off, abuse, age, break up,
Form: ABC
Let The Pills Kill You Instead Of The Humans’
...{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside,
Sent electrical shocks through her body,
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would...
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Categories:
switch off, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Community
...
Community, do you remember that
Our rapidly changing world, has stripped community from behind our backs
Technology connects us across the globe
But sometimes isolates us within our own mind...
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Categories:
switch off, community, loneliness, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Our Beach Vacation
...Wait
This can't be a mistake
The morning light
Is just too bright
We've overslept
Curled up in bed
Now we must rush
Gone that soothing hush
Toilet flushing
Teeth fast brushing
Cof...
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Categories:
switch off, beach, desire, dream, fun,
Form: Footle
Let it be
...Let it be.
Let me flow through you like a beautiful love song.
Let our days together be joyous and oh so long,
So I can enjoy your being along for the ride.
Let today be a good day, with only...
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Categories:
switch off, desire, love, marriage, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
On a Clear Day --
...
switch off the dark news
check out the sky’s brilliant hues ~
say 'bye to your blues
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Categories:
switch off, blue, goodbye, sky, stress,
Form: Senryu
Lover s Torn Up
...L ive your life level bes T.
O cean of tears - cease this fiasc O.
V iva la Vida, never to see he R
E ver again, except death comes soo N.
R omantic days and nights platea U.
S uppose you don’t...
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Categories:
switch off, encouraging, grief, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 5 of 6'
...V. "The Great Collective Awakening"
Aren't we the true definitive problem,
not just astray-
malignant corporations…
Or unresponsive governments ?
We are fault...
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Categories:
switch off, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Entirely Untitled
...Love is…too much, too little, and just right.
Love is…what keeps hope in sight.
Love is…the flickering in the dark of a long lost light.
Love is…my throat caught in a lightly bleeding bite.
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Categories:
switch off, love,
Form: Rhyme
Come Back And Finish What You Started
...
Looking back on when we were Young so long ago
It's so sad
When I think of all the things we had
And magical things we used to do
Fate and providence Brought us together
Fate and providence t...
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Categories:
switch off, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
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