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Ashen-Cradle

...A haunting past that trails behind,
An unnerving shadow that fails to blend.
The harrowing voices that curve the bend,
Sending your sanity off to the other end.

The gleaming red eyes that tend ...
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Categories: thereupon, anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Chasing the Gray

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Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
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Categories: thereupon, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Edge of Time

...I’m sitting on the edge of time
For just a disembodied pause,
While pointed hands o’er rounded chime
Obey the pendulum’s swayed cause.

Where kinetics’ course is lastly laid,
Comes forth the po...
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Categories: thereupon, allegory, allusion, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

PainKillers and Immunity

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{"Corrupted abandonment issues
 swathe me as a probable hazard, and I remain far from sane, I coat over my sentiments and violate the evidence so nonentity would find the remnants of my body, 
I ...
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Categories: thereupon, absence, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Tree at Kidder Creek

...The tree that stands at Kidder Creek
Reminds us of our friend
Who was called away from us,
Her life on earth to end.
This tree so brightens all our sight
When thereupon we gaze,
It lets us know...
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Categories: thereupon, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Legend of the Rose

...Long 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbrea...
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Categories: thereupon, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberNearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me

...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h...
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Categories: thereupon, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo

So I Dance For You

...| So I dance for you |

Awaiting I'm fixating upon my breath, becoming translucent between the day,
If I could only reach those sea of stars that light.
But, why each twilight passes you promise ...
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Categories: thereupon, absence, desire, devotion, heart,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberShattered Illusions

...Written: July 08, 2023
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The legacy of the past is tainted to the core. 
A haunting memory, which I deplore.
But in your...
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Categories: thereupon, analogy, appreciation, change, first
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Cog In the Machine

...A mere civil clerk, in his fifties; tall and bent,
Leading a calm life, with none any argument; 
Albert Camus, in his well-known novel, the Plague, 
Makes Joseph Grand, hero; though, visibly, seem...
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Categories: thereupon, dedication, devotion, hero,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOhm Reverberation

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All that we see is but a divine dance,
bliss of union, pangs of separation, 
polarities orbiting Ohm cadence,
making earth life joyous celebration,
for souls dwelling in void of c...
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Categories: thereupon, spiritual,
Form: Dizain

Premium MemberA Toddler In the Well

...Just like his custom, he sparks to frolic in the encompassing.
But when he tumbled to get back home, the frenzy was beginning.

Ryan 5 fell under a 30 meter well, a ton like Joseph.
I...
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Categories: thereupon, analogy, anxiety, bereavement, child,
Form: Couplet

Fall

...Poem: Fall
Fall, you made me strong.
Made me realize, I was wrong.
Wrong were my ways, I went astray.
Went astray for fleeting pleasure,
Forgetting, my task is a treasure.
Glozing over my trans...
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Categories: thereupon, anxiety, autumn, spring, storm,
Form: Rhyme

Our Children

...Our Children


                                            Our children.
                                   Yes, they are our children.
                                 Not only mine, yours or t...
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Categories: thereupon, art, caregiving, childhood, children,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTranscending Fear

...His name was Lucifer,
and his home was heaven.
Long story short, he was
summarily dispatched from heaven
and assigned to dwell upon the earth.

Thereupon, Satan was in the serpent;
The serpent...
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Categories: thereupon, fear, god,
Form: Verse

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