When Their Whispers Became Too Loud
...In the stillness of darkness
mockery, lies, gossips like air arise
dragging you down, for a penny sake
Abuse of power just for wealth.
Who would have thought of these silent moves?
Cheating on...
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Categories:
take root, betrayal, discrimination, emotions, faith,
Form: Lyric
Before my mom gave me birth
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I’ve known my mother
since before I had a shape,
when my soul — a seed of silent stars,
was still searching for its furrow.
I was an imperceptible vibration,
a faint flicker in the chasm
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Categories:
take root, absence, child, death, family,
Form: Free verse
Passion Flowers
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They bloomed together
within the same state of mind
though separated
by zones of time.
Sultry words sprouted
sprig-like inklings flourished
as they bound each other
to a burgeoning e...
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Categories:
take root, poetry,
Form: Free verse
HE THAT GOETH TO-FORE
...The high and the lows, strife and blows
Through high tides, and angry winds,
Hurricanes and tornadoes
Life stalls, uncertainity builds,
fear beckons and faith dissolves
But with the last ounce o...
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Categories:
take root, encouraging, faith, hope, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Roots Without Soil
...I.
I fold my mother's silver spoon—crescent bright,
worn soft as secrets whispered through the night.
Her thumb's warm press, a tender, sacred trace,
curves like a prayer held close in time and...
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Categories:
take root, political, prison,
Form: Masnavi
Earth
...Seconds pass
like our lives
through the sieve
Sifting lives
some continue
a few buried
Let's hope many
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Categories:
take root, age, death, life,
Form: Other
Reboot
...Reboot
Floppy disk
Magnetic storage medium
A new chapter
Be open minded
Impossible dreams
Move on from your old ways
Reboot
A new harvest
Quenching thirst
New horizons
Recharge ...
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Categories:
take root, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Silence Listens
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Silence Listens
In the quietude of a room at night
When all is hushed to stern and strict silence
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Categories:
take root, appreciation, self, silence, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Friends, sometimes you feel like there's no one to talk to
...Friends, sometimes you feel like there's no one to talk to,
that there isn't a place where you can shout into the void without being heard,
so I've created one for you, a space where silence become...
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Categories:
take root, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Cottonwood Poet
...Poems are much like cottonwood seeds,
Filling the air as they float in the breeze.
We hope our efforts find fertile soil
And our seeds take root, rewarding our toil.
Exposed and vulnerable, t...
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Categories:
take root, allegory, faith, poets,
Form: Couplet
My blanket of comfort
...My mother~
the reason my heart begins to beat,
my guardian angel,
my warm blanket of comfort.
In her care, my dreams take root and bloom.
She is my guiding light in every storm.
She is the so...
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Categories:
take root, appreciation, family, love, mom,
Form: Free verse
Black Propaganda
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Dark whispers take root,
Poisoning the public mind,
Truth becomes the ghost.
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Categories:
take root, political,
Form: Haiku
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im...
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Categories:
take root, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
One morning, you wake up and feel that it's gone
...One morning, you wake up and feel that it's gone,
A friend, a love, a dream you swore you would always keep.
At first, you reach out to grab it, believing that maybe, if you hold on tight enough,
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Categories:
take root, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Heart Set Ablaze
...I love You, Lord.
Let my heart burn for You, let my soul cling to You.
May I love You with all that I am, with nothing held back.
Let no logic, no argument, no worldly wisdom steal me away.
God, ...
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Categories:
take root, 12th grade, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Free verse
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