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A Wider Beam
Night after night, images flicker on the tube
Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths
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Categories:
truth, death, history, horror, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Teens Know It All
Teens Know It All
Miracle Man
4/26/2024
When I was a young lad hurrying to grow,
My intelligence hadn’t yet started to show.
But today I’m alive,
passed eighty-five,
and amazed at things that I didn’t know.
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Categories:
age, teenage, truth,
Form: Limerick
Thought of the daydiscard oh hermit, your to-do list ~
the seeker who seeks does not exist...
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Categories:
desire, spiritual, truth,
Form: Couplet
Are We Too Much?I’ve been breathing in the fumes of my existence and expectedness for some time now…
Far too long because this thing I cannot place has had unending hold over me.
I’ve been realizing things lately, and witnessing...
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Categories:
truth, community, deep, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
seek and ye shall findin our earth life role
that we feel blissful and whole
we search for our soul
feeble thoughts muddle
and holy books befuddle
with fear we huddle
silence sets us free
head and heart with love agree
soul frolics carefree
made in God’s image
we...
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Categories:
truth, i am, self, spiritual,
Form: Senryu
Haves and Have NotsIn the grand story of life, a tale unfolds,
Of the Haves and have-nots, their stories untold.
For in this world, where survival reigns supreme,
Life's true meaning obscured, like a forgotten dream.
Ideologies clash, religions divide,
Political affiliations in...
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Categories:
life, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Bamboo WisdomBamboos are awesome
It bend when the wind smites
Such clever wisdom....
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Categories:
meaningful, truth, wind, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
Lets Work It OutThe air in here is really dense
The room is completely tense
Feelings are out in the open
We are both wishin' and hopin'
This gets settled really fast
Before emotions stir and blast
Us both with hateful words
We shouldn't have...
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Categories:
anger, emotions, relationship, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Black SheepInside the house,
She's full of kindness.
But the true skin can't hide.
Because The Eye of Above
always watching.
And you must be careful to trust.
You'll never no your name will vanish.
Even your not an evil, but in the...
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Categories:
truth, care, deep, fire, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Kayaking Down the River of LiesI eased our kayak into the river of lies.
There was me, Dave and Jim, experienced guys.
The current grew stronger, Jim said he would quit,
He said it felt wrong, the scene didn't fit.
Dave urged I go...
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Categories:
adventure, allegory, truth,
Form: Lyric
Sulu KampilanSulu Kampilan
Can chop two or three heads clean
One power spleen....
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Categories:
creation, culture, scary, truth,
Form: Haiku
the ultimate truthThe ultimate truth pointed out by sages,
being taken as read, needs to be applied,
transforming our heart where a fierce fire rages,
fanned by wayward ego, which to soul has lied,
to which end, shifting to silence in...
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Categories:
silence, spiritual, truth,
Form: Ottava rima
Look Within2/4/23
No ifs ands or maybes
Daily
I'm seeing hatred
People still extremely racist
Meanwhile food and materials being wasted
I understand the messages these mummies meant
Continually money spent
Making matters worse, followed by a bloody event
Too often the crooked win
Always greedy...
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Categories:
truth, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Only Knew2/13/23
A fu**** up past
Always past fu**** up
It's just me and a cup damn
Still can't put down the damn cup
I am truly sad
How i've been living is sad truly
I can't smile away problems
It's been difficult to...
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Categories:
truth, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
ConfessionsA person's acknowledgment of wrongdoing such as mine when I write senryu, haiku and monoku and label them wrong...
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Categories:
truth, writing,
Form: Monoku
Specific Types of Truth Poems
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