If I Could Have Lived My Life
...If I could have lived my life
Then this life is not mine. Not mine. Then this present has gone too far
I didn’t wait this time. Never. I needed the love. But that didn’t work
Doesn’t work the ...
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Categories:
unacceptable, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
The Final Word
...We set upon a journey
That would make us great
We decided to love our neighbors
Instead of embracing hate
We opened our hearts to the poor
A roof over every head
We measured our speech
Con...
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Categories:
unacceptable, america, anger, black african
Form: Quatrain
The Bleeding
...No earthly mortal
Nor any intity can
stop the flow.
Like a river, it gushes
Through the toughest
Barrier and crosses
Boarders with no regards.
Its causes are mixed and multiple.
But every...
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Categories:
unacceptable, pain, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
internal voice
...
the voice spoke quietly from an inner sanctum
he had out-sourced for what seemed an eternity
muffled at first and barely audible it challenged
his deluded mischievous sense of corrupted reality
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Categories:
unacceptable, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Diner Might
...In nineteen sixty-three, May twenty-eight,
three youngsters in a Woolworths five-and-dime
sat down and asked for coffee. This was war.
In Jackson, Mississippi, way back when,
outrageous things l...
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Categories:
unacceptable, history,
Form: Rhyme
Unforgiving Grief
...My grief is not resolved
It blocks the heart
It torments my life
The more I recognized
Not only sadness
There's also anger
Envy, lack of confidence
Emptiness and fear
Living in grief is unfor...
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Categories:
unacceptable, anxiety, emotions, grief, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Loner vs Loser
...Today, 2025.3.09@08:46:00
Here I am again at Geelong.
Not only I am alone, but also unhappy.
My trip over the long weekends had been altered and changed,
Not by the weather nor a new plan,
Sim...
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Categories:
unacceptable, happy, nature, ocean, water,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Change
...Change is scary
Especially the first act
It's fearsome, agonizing
Provoking and unacceptable
But, it is necessary for change course
Of life, perspective and hope desired result.
Change is gro...
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Categories:
unacceptable, change, growth, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Do You Ever Stop and Look Around?
...We live in a beautiful world
So lucky we are, nature gives
but we take far too much
nature as I speak is crying.
Go for a walk away from every day life
look up into the sky, mountains a-high...
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Categories:
unacceptable, animal, beauty, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
To Those that Don't Understand
...To Those That Don't Understand
You won't, you simply can't and how could you,
It is bigger than your comprehension, your ego
- will allow..
For the sake of love of money, And for inane coar...
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Categories:
unacceptable, art,
Form: Political Verse
Lies
...Some People May Think
A Lie Is Not Truth
What Does It Mean
For Him, Me, or You?
A Lie Is Much More
Then Words from a Mouth
Deep Down to the Core
Filling You with Doubt
A Lie is Being B...
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Categories:
unacceptable, hurt, life, meaningful, mental
Form: Crown of Sonnets
I Will Meet You Here
...I will meet you here instead of there,
Because the world can be cruel with their unacceptable stares,
The motions and feelings we all tend to feel,
Until we can distinguish between what is fake an...
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Categories:
unacceptable, beautiful, blessing, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Light Verse
Searching
...Searching
Searching for a place
Where I belong
Where hope is alive
Where feelings of disappointment fade away to no longer reachable distances
The longing of belonging is in the mirror
Faith f...
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Categories:
unacceptable, dream, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
The Blue Light
...A first grader somewhere today
was left alone on a bus,
unacceptable I say!
Riding a bus with the kids is fun
but, at my last stop my job is not done.
I can't return without a thorough search,
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Categories:
unacceptable, 1st grade, career,
Form: Free verse
The Making of a Teenage Tragedy
...I live, letting life’s events blow along with the wind; inhaling the scented, crisp breeze. I seldom sit down and question my purpose, instead I flow from the water which I arose from. Though the wat...
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Categories:
unacceptable, abuse, age, depression, for
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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