Life if lived fullest -1
...If only life dares us new heights to scale,
Joy and thrill of adventures, not of rest,
Conquest of crests that feels like Everest,
Life lived like cut off kites that freely sail.
There’s ...
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Categories:
tends, adventure, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Fate Tends Hang On a Knife-Edge
...All because of that single decision
To grasp that grate and breathe in the ethereal skies above
Rather than
To let go of that grate and suffocate in the foul sewage below
Because of what he...
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Categories:
tends, dark, fate, identity, light,
Form: Free verse
I can assure you
...I can assure you
Had a dream while sitting at the edge
of a hole where they had removed a stone
and the mold was soft to the touch
that I had died, but also said to myself that
Were I dead, I ...
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Categories:
tends, adventure, age, angst, art,
Form: ABC
Beyond the Blackbox
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Attention:
This one is the problem child.
Mom and dad deny autonomy
take authority over a diary
supervised at all times; no privacy
door hinge wide open
so why are the walls closing in?
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Categories:
tends, angst, anxiety, depression, mental
Form: Spoken Word
Memories At Her Funeral
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I have lost many loved people in my life
and I live with my forever grief
the love lost that hurts the most to me
was my sweet mother's sad death
my anchor and safe harbor
she al...
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Categories:
tends, grief, pride,
Form: Verse
A Neighbourhood At The Bottom Of The Sea
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There is a mixed shoal of marine life creatures
Who live in a neighbourhood at the bottom of the sea
A mixed and varied group
Living together cohesively and in harmony
Timmy Tuna and Sally ...
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Categories:
tends, fun, humor, humorous, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Bloody minded judges'
...Three cretinous judges, have commited to
The slaughter.' Of the B C Ostriches what?
Such a crime and dis-order.' Who knows these
Sleazball black robed ghouls? Who pours
Their water, man its so un...
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Categories:
tends, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Slavery wasn't slavery
...There's a man who I call DeSatan
From Florida to Sunshine State
who said that slavery for Black folks in America
was beneficial and great.
they were taught skills on how to be
better product...
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Categories:
tends, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Synchronicity
...Have you ever made a connection despite adversity, or at a time when emotional warmth is especially cherished?
A connection based on Jung's concept of synchronicity:
Occurrences that are linked...
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Categories:
tends, fate,
Form: Senryu
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 27, 28 and 29
...Part Twenty-Seven — Giti Speaks with Her Father and His Reply
Sweet Giti, like an idol fair,
A thousand hearts caught in her hair.
As soft and gentle as the breeze,
Her charm could bring stro...
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Categories:
tends, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
In the blink of an eye
...Holding on and not letting go is more of what my heart tends to show,
To bring myself clarity and loves reward,
To understand that there's so much more,
So many give up, too many walk away,
Belie...
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Categories:
tends, beautiful, courage,
Form: Light Verse
The child in man as grows
...A child as grows enjoys rainbow of joys,
Many a marvel in a wondrous world,
Joys mingling with toys getting bouncy buoys,
A world of birds and butterflies unfurled.
As comes his youth that cha...
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Categories:
tends, age, childhood, joy, life,
Form: Sonnet
Multiplicity of the Self
...“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
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Multiplicity of the Self
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Categories:
tends, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Black and White Lies
...A lie that is coloured white
A lie that make things seem all right.
A lie that leaves you asking why
Discovering those lies that made you cry.
Lies exposed, were meant as a joke
The lies that ...
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Categories:
tends, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Guy the Excitable Chick
...We are plain yellow chicks in my barnyard, my family and I
Well, we were, until the birth of my younger brother, Guy
He is the most excitable chick we had ever hoped to see
Getting enthusiastic to...
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Categories:
tends, animal,
Form: Rhyme
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