Manifesto
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THE MAN WHO KILLED THE WORLD
It was there, then it was gone. A swirling mass of white and topaz rotating in an inky expanse gone. Vanished, right before my eyes.
My home
my family
my co...
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Categories:
thieved, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Cocoon
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"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of ...
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Categories:
thieved, muse,
Form: Narrative
What Is Torn
...** What’s Torn **
What’s been torn off or away may be
a recurring theme — of dreams or memory —
that nags, popping up unexpectedly
to recall or, for dear losses, again grieve…
The things thi...
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Categories:
thieved, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Archimedes
...O lover of fates
were the fates to love
would maiden hold
loft your bonzéd hair
or mother gaze at
roots and watered iris fair?
In longing passion
whence crone became,
that jealous fire
which...
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Categories:
thieved, deep, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Selenophile
...He's above the earth, far away from my touch
Hanging in her arms of the sky
-Staring at me
A dream of eternal shone in our eyes
My love, unheard as a whisper
The vast horizon lave in his shine...
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Categories:
thieved, fantasy, love, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Jewel's Passing
...So no more shall his traitors hate;
For death's veils have made it late
To slight any soul time has called
To dine and wine in the city of gold.
And his tombstone does eerily stand
Above the g...
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Categories:
thieved, appreciation, death, family,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Forget-Me-Not
...Between Fear and Mirth sat Falsehood and Truth,
Who made away in a kissing-booth.
They snagged each-other in prickl'd vine,
Lit the scene in wax and wine.
As evening faded clear to dawn,
In he...
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Categories:
thieved, betrayal, cute love, day,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Movie In My Mind
...For weeks, I've played on repeat
the future which have turned bleak
to realize from a dream
we've thieved from a Before scene....
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Categories:
thieved, assonance, dream, for him,
Form: Free verse
hanks
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once an old con bob hanks
greeted tellers with thanks
please call me dom
named for my mom
then thieved his way through banks.
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Categories:
thieved, cheer up, confusion, farm,
Form: Limerick
Seasons Remembered
...Spring arrived with life anew,
Fledglings hatched - then away they flew,
Bees gathered nectar from flowers of blue,
Morning grass glistened with sparkling dew!
Summer brought in the warmth of t...
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Categories:
thieved, autumn, memory, seasons, spring,
Form: Rhyme
State of the Mind
...Some are seated in the East
But their minds are in the south,
When you talk, they hardly hear
Because their minds have travelled wide
Beyond the surface of their present state of mind;
On their ...
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Categories:
thieved, art,
Form: Free verse
Strangers
...I once met a very old man, his name it does not matter.
He taught me many important things like, "Listen, do not chatter".
I once met a colorful clown, who made everyone always smile.
But insid...
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Categories:
thieved, age, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Take America Back
...One of many, a new world order, each day my minds eye sees another shade colder. The stars and the stripes mean a lot in my heart, the founding fathers message, why’d it have to depart? When tyranny ...
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Categories:
thieved, america, evil, god, history,
Form: Verse
Yesteryears
...Granting no reprieve for myself,
I continue this journey.
This madness began moons ago
I let you have what you so willingly took;
My power. My self-worth. My sanity
As of this very moment,...
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Categories:
thieved, betrayal, depression, encouraging, irony,
Form: Free verse
Story of Snowball Latham
...Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on the porch, was the beginning of being, and the pass of a torch. ...
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Categories:
thieved, character, community, desire, dream,
Form: Verse
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