Mask
...Mask by Adejola Joseph
Mask
Where does it come from?
What?
Delusive rationality!
Are we out of mind?
Senses drained and dried?
No!
What do you capitalized on?
Neutral ambition?
Stop writhin...
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Categories:
unaided, anger,
Form: Free verse
Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.
When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.
Such an inj...
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Categories:
unaided, dark,
Form: Rhyme
These Scars
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My scars lives inside and out seems undetectable to
the unaided eye. These scars
Damaging effects traumas, pangs layers of scars one
may not understand, Me, Myself and I. These scars
Cu...
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Categories:
unaided, anxiety, betrayal, blessing, character,
Form: Bio
THANKFUL FOR BLURRED VISION
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Today I’m thankful for having eyes
that left unaided cause my vision to be blurred…
No, this statement is not ridiculous, senseless or absurd
Because when things all blur together…
And I can...
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Categories:
unaided, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Prodigree 2
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O, elusive muse, mysterious and profound bruise,
you bewitch my soul, never to be found in the way of former use.
In your absence, I am left with bittersweet
caramello pai...
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Categories:
unaided, art,
Form: Rhyme
On This Land
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Written: January 04, 2024
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Magnificent orchids are being flourished on this land.
Love lyrics serenaded for odd lovers of thi...
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Categories:
unaided, analogy, appreciation, beauty, dream,
Form: Ghazal
Fireworks
...Fireworks around the globe
Each a brilliant display
Marking end of one calendar,
Another New Years Day
Will this be the year
the rich decide to give
A little of what they have
To help the poo...
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Categories:
unaided, new years day, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Elderly
...Please do not call me “elderly.”
My age may make me old
And if you met me, someone “senior”
Is what you’d behold.
Yet “elderly” implies, to me,
A person who is frail,
Who’s stuck in bed or co...
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Categories:
unaided, old,
Form: Rhyme
Gypsy Jasmyn
...Misplaced peg squirms to fit locales unfamiliar
Illformed tumbleweed pauses then departs
Traits assessed on somewhere else's charts
Easily establishes enemies, little gypsy pe...
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Categories:
unaided, 4th grade, angst, anti
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Sunflower
...The sunflower stretched
With its stalk and its neck
As far to the sky
As it could – reaching high,
Pushing its golden face
With clumsy, awkward grace
Trying, with all its might
To reach the ...
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Categories:
unaided, flower, inspiration, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Real Me
...I’m sitting at my keyboard
Just ranting and abusing
Which my long suffering wife
No longer finds amusing.
I’m both dyslexic and dyspraxic
Which is why I swear and curse
Because for a creative p...
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Categories:
unaided, computer, fun, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Girls In White Dresses
...I still have my own teeth,
My hearing's mostly unaided,
I still dream about girls
In white dresses with sashes,
But sometimes I feel
Out of sync and frustrated
When I wake up alone
And the fan...
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Categories:
unaided, age, introspection,
Form: Verse
Snowflake
...Scientists strive for knowledge
Just for knowledge’s sake:
Quietly, and unaided, Nature
Forms a perfect snowflake....
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Categories:
unaided, beauty, nature, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Education
...I lied to do a GCE History
saying it was okay to proceed
on the adage of my Year Head
only then to get a grade A
Its hard to be unaided dyslexic
when I ask myself now
would GCE English Language...
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Categories:
unaided, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Supernal Rings of Neptune
...The planet Neptune for god of the sea
was titled from Roman mythology.
His wife Salacia three sons Neptune bore
with Triton most celebrated in lore
both Greek and Roman as merman, then famed
as ...
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Categories:
unaided, earth, humanity, space, sun,
Form: Verse
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