Lemons and Life
...Of all the songs
You seem to be
The tuneless one,
Less subtlety.
God's orchestra
Has dealt a hand—
More toneless rasp
Than golden strand.
I wonder if
You long to be
A star
In morning's...
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Categories:
toneless, bird, blue, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers in the Wind
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Written: February 03, 2025, for contest, Sponsored by: Oliver Mckeithan
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In breeze
I smell your breath
that rustle gleaming t...
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Categories:
toneless, adventure, light,
Form: Cinquain
Black and White
...I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst,
free-falling into an abyss of an aching era,
where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets,
for time throws my canvas into splitting helpless...
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Categories:
toneless, angst,
Form: Free verse
When Doves Cry
...There is a sadness in the heart of peace
An emptiness of bloodless, toneless hearts
Left stagnant in the aftermath of hope
Yet still we wave our tattered silent flags.
A rustle in the garden bi...
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Categories:
toneless, eulogy,
Form: Blank verse
Mango Cider In the Rain
...It's on one of those cold Bengaluru evenings
When you've begun to contemplate
About how your life has led you to this point
of desolation.
Who are you and what have you done
To the energetic, ha...
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Categories:
toneless, dream, emotions, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Swelling Symphony
...Just pondering on overall life
How to paint apocalyptic pads
Darkening clay ashes
Toneless voices
Endless falsehood
Withered, weakened
Ditched in favor of
gloomy, silent hallways
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Categories:
toneless, analogy, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
On the Good Ship Bubble-Pop
...*Image of Childhood Memories by WordPress.
On the Good Ship Bubble-Pop
Bubbles, see-throughs, delicate floats,
of voyaged sailless boats,
her captain gauge the air around,
blue c...
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Categories:
toneless, childhood, fantasy, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing With the Ghosts
...undressed recent ghosts
dance silent monotony
from toneless music...
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Categories:
toneless, allegory, allusion, dance, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Can This Be Love
...I have walked and walked,
But I can’t find the love for my emotions.
For it has taken me too long,
To see what I’m searching for.
Your beauty is guilty,
Of striving to seek,
The perfections of ...
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Categories:
toneless, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Died At the Cathedral
...The songs of sorrow is toneless
The sorrows of the heart is song less
Gone and gone for good
The dept of death is Dept less
The cream of death is colourfully
Sorrowful because none see's death ...
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Categories:
toneless, absence, anger, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Elegy
Truly Numb
...Some think to utter you are numb is dumb.
Like a frayed twine, emotion becomes blind.
Can't cry, could only voice a toneless sigh.
Death feels like a release, all pain shall cease.
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Categories:
toneless, 9th grade, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
-life-
...Dutch Sonnet:
-life-
Driving down such a lonely road, where we will not connect,
I’m all alone in this lonely world, where’d I go wrong?
Without a destination, I just keep on going with...
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Categories:
toneless, age, life, lonely, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Forced By Tradition
...The veil covers her face hiding her tears..
her mind in turmoil, filled with fear..
Her life never really has been her own..
from the day she was born, even now full grown..
A culture to follow,...
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Categories:
toneless, betrayal, daughter, heartbroken, parents,
Form: I do not know?
Lost Echoes - For Contest
...Lost Echoes
lost echoes wander silent valleys
reverberations orphaned tones
disconnected from their source
long ceased – solemn call to prayer
wasted on the ears of the callous
dried on t...
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Categories:
toneless, environment, pollution, river,
Form: Free verse
Tiger In a Cage
...Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)
Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the way I pace back and forth repeatedly.
A headless collar is all you see.
The ...
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Categories:
toneless, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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