A Story of Dichotomy
...The tumults of organized lives
Often brings happiness but sadly, much strife
As we crawl hastily to our eminent demise
We realize without birth there is no life
Without life, there is no death
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Categories:
tumults, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Do Something Different
...Throw off the old tired ways
Seek something new to try
Look to the brighter days
Let all your cares go bye
It's the hard thing that stays
Shifting can cause tumults
Often finding false praise...
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Categories:
tumults, change, character, courage, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
In tumults of time and forgetfulness, in the hidden frenzy of a heart beating faintly
...In tumults of time and forgetfulness, in the hidden frenzy of a heart beating faintly,
Invoke the unseen magic, unravel silk works in the deep night,
Tame as a magus who dares, let fall veils of si...
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Categories:
tumults, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Quiet Thunder- Dedicated Verse To Nazaire Djissenou
...Quiet thunder
Sovereign prince crowned head
First Father Righteousness lead
Nazareth a place in Israel
Blessed named NaZaire
Name NaZaire from Latin Nazareus derived from
Run NaZair...
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Categories:
tumults, analogy, appreciation, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Mascara Woes
...Mascara smudged – through the tears
I see the rumbling truth being preached
By silent prayers, gentling peace…
Doubting the whispers of yesterday’s dream,
I fall to my knees, murmuring – tender...
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Categories:
tumults, conflict, december, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Bountiful Land
..."Oh beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain."
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Tales from ancestral lore decree
How journeys prom...
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Categories:
tumults, courage, destiny, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Maelstrom
...Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl,
A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl;
Weather and season get amalgamated with currents,
Winds, storms, gales, squa...
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Categories:
tumults, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Rhyme
Napoleon's Nascent Love For Josephine
...Give me a smile, that I may build on your assurance,
Kiss me, that I may have to thy kind heart entrance,
Love me less, and see how tumultuous life could be,
Give thy command, and see my loyalty t...
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Categories:
tumults, history, love,
Form: Rhyme
Wandering the Road
...Wandering the roads. It has me under a spell even at this juncture in my life.
Even when spiked brambles
scrape my eyelids or those tender foot soles are being twisted by tooth-like stones. Qu...
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Categories:
tumults, beautiful, birth, blessing, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Daily Enhancing Mindfulness
...Discombobulation thunderously
torments, triumphs, tumults
courtesy deafening,
earsplitting, fracturing...
(think emotional bomb cyclone),
whereby unbearable mental anguish
rents psyche asunder ...
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Categories:
tumults, angst, conflict, faith, fate,
Form: Free verse
Tumultuous Troth
...You entered my home, as a new bride, snow-white embellished!
I was in my bride-groom-dress, looked royal and unblemished!
All so, due to crude cultures, where marriage is a system,
Where prestige ...
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Categories:
tumults, conflict, life, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Nigeria My Motherland
...Nigeria our great and beloved motherland,
where multitudes of tribes unitedly stand.
Our land of hope by two rivers divided,
with lush vegetation by nature provided.
Nigeria our home of people ...
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Categories:
tumults, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Rain
...Floods of memories
The tumults, the peace
The pitter-patter on rooftops
The passion, in dollops
The continuous beat
Driving away the heat
The smell of rain
The overflowing drain
Emotions unco...
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Categories:
tumults, romance, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Daily Enhancing Mindfulness
...Discombobulation thunderously
torments, triumphs, tumults
courtesy deafening,
earsplitting, fracturing...
whereby unbearable mental anguish
rents psyche asunder
into bajillion pieces
singul...
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Categories:
tumults, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
A Love Letter To Josephine De Beauharnais
...My emotions are explosive.
My pretenses are relegated
to the depths.
I cannot my feelings
anymore conceal.
Let me come in and
share your heavenlies
and tumults with you.
Tomorrow never comes....
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Categories:
tumults, love,
Form: Ode
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