Time Etched in Flesh
The rustling of leaves interplays with the ocean breeze,
as traces of moonlight escape through blackout curtains hanging from steel rods.
Bolts of illumination highlight stacks of books caked in dust,
while a man, decrepit with age, sits on a worn auburn-coloured leather chair.
His balding hair is grey from years of turmoil.
Wrinkles lay heavy, nestled deep within his...
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Categories:
symbolism, angst, gothic, imagery, old,
Form: Free verse
Right Art ItAll at once, the soul takes flight
Rendering raw both dark and bright
Truth in touch, in wrong and right
In silent storms, I wield the night
Shaping shadows into sight
Till the void erupts with light
Breaking borders built by thought
Reason rains in riddles caught
All ideas, like lightning, dash
Igniting images in a flash
Nighttime neurons softly chime
Synapse singing sparks through time
Holding...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, assonance, heart, hyperbole,
Form: Acrostic
My Dad: The Navigational Beacon
It stands where the map dissolves,
at the edge where certainty falters—
a hollow bell against the wind,
a watchman staring through the salt-thick dark.
The mariner knows its miasmic vow:
a pulse amid the blank expanse,
a promise bound in lantern flame
that fractures the silence of the tide.
History sleeps in its iron bones,
the breath of lost voyages pressed into its...
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Categories:
symbolism, endurance, father, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse
Interlaced
hope
flowing
abundance
unbreakable
embattled walls cease
perish with loves embrace
under unfathomable
beauty blanketed in moon's glow
I fall into blissful surrender
serenity serenades through your voice
heralding a scarred heart's resurrection
trails of bright cosmic dust scattering
streaking the night kissed horizon
wrapping around trembling arms
scents of vintage leather
rain soaked petrichor
two hearts in sync
interlaced
become
one
...
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Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, imagery, love, meaningful,
Form: Etheree
oasis
Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, happiness, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Before the DarkThe villain wasn't always a villain.
Once upon a time, they laughed like sunlight on pebbles in a river,
Heart soft and eyes wide with wonder.
But the world sharpened its teeth against them.
An act of Betrayal and a wound, and a silence for too long.
They reached out and called for aid,
No one...
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Categories:
symbolism, 12th grade, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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I OPENED A DOOR IN THE UNIVERSE,
ONLY TO FIND MYSELF FACE TO FACE
WITH A OCEANIC VIEW OF CURIOSITY.
ENDLESS WAVES OF QUESTIONS,
ANSWERS AND THEORIES LEADING TO ,
AND FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
EXPECTING NOTHING MORE THAN
INTERESTING AND PLEASANT
INFORMATION TO ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS STIMULATING MY OWN
CURIOSITY.
UNEXPECTEDLY , I FOUND MYSELF
IMMERSED...
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Categories:
symbolism, imagination, inspirational, journey, mental
Form: Free verse
Categories:
nature, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
AirWhoosh, the wind through olive trees,
tugs my dress with gentle ease.
It brushes neck like whispered breath,
soft and quiet, light as rest.
Flit-flit, white butterflies fly,
soft as ash, then say goodbye.
Chirp-trill, birds sing wild above,
messy songs full of love.
Buzz of heat on sun-warm skin,
wind curls slow around my shin.
Agolli spoke of roots and rain,
but I was born...
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Categories:
symbolism, animal, muse, mystery, onomatopoeia,
Form: Rhyme
Hiku tumbleweedwind-swept tumbleweed
rolling through baron plains
hope clings to dry roots...
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Categories:
symbolism, earth, imagery, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku
beginning sun bleached grains of sand
drift passively along waves ~
back to beginning
...
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Categories:
symbolism, beach, nature, ocean, poetry,
Form: Haiku
silence alone
the man in the moon
far removed from earth’s craters
silence—nothingness
...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, imagery, loneliness, nature,
Form: Haiku
haiku:hiku : manifestation processhaiku : manifestation process
heart whispers symbols
mindful make intentions, plans ~
action complete, sleep
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hiku
he ART
w h i s p e
R...
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Categories:
symbolism, change, character, creation, growth,
Form: Haiku
Born Of Fire and RainHe was reborn & rebuilt
brick by brick from
casted stones
meant to destroy
A heavenly construction approved
by the most high
employed angels from every
corner & angle
high to low
The convoy driven by unseen
forces came in droves
remorseless in their destruction
& unmoved by any attempt
to dismantle
No one holds a candle to his flame
for it burns like earth's core
& he's...
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Categories:
perspective, spiritual, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Free verse
We've got water to walk onA storm is brewing
It's coming to a head.
all of society is in danger
but by the Spirit we will be led
the blustering winds of bigotry are fierce
causing racial isolation
the hurricanes of hate are howling
causing economic desolation
the impact will be monumental
affecting everyone at hand
the tornadoes of Injustice are swirling
but on the promises...
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Categories:
courage, gospel, symbolism,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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