The Toll of War
...I only hear your children weep,
I only have their dreams.
I do not pray my soul to keep,
For mine has split its seams.
I only see what your eyes see,
Your blood upon my hilt,
For though you wer...
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Categories:
unawake, death, grief, military, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Untouchable
...I’ve never longed for something more in life
My eyes are seas and my hands grab greed
My desire to be alive
Pulled like a weed
And my fingers soon unclasp
To reveal nothing but air
My glee sl...
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Categories:
unawake, 12th grade, how i
Form: Rhyme
A Winter Night
...When the shadow of the Earth echoes across the night sky,
Listen to the wind while it wipes its hum dry.
An owl yells to the crescent of the peek-a-boo moon,
In a tree by a creek where a frog cr...
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Categories:
unawake, depression, winter,
Form: Couplet
In White She Sleeps
...White
In innocence
Pale silken skin
Upon the pillowcase
Through
White
Shutters
Halo of moonlight
White
Incandescent
In
Dreams
White pegasus
Lifts her up
In iridescent
Sleep speeds
Wh...
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Categories:
unawake, courage, daughter, devotion, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Challenge of Our Awakening
...Cast into a blanket of darkness
and removed from our infinite existence,
we are born unawake!
Our challenge for enlightenment has now begun!
A fragility that is magnified by this shaking earth!
The o...
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Categories:
unawake, spiritual,
Form: I do not know?
Brother Don'T Abandon Brothers
...it was one of the darkest moments in His anointed life
when the Roman soldiers came to arrest Our Lord Jesus the Christ
divinity was unraveling the prophetic scripture to be fulfilled
Jesus betray...
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Categories:
unawake, brother, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form: Carpe Diem
Help
...The sun rose shining bright,
The birds chirp in the morning light.
Her eyes wide open, but she lay unawake.
The bloody knife lay beside her lifeless body.
She couldn't take the pain, she didn't ...
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Categories:
unawake, death
Form: I do not know?
Dancing Whisper
...Where is she that visits me in the unawake of night?
Whispers inaudible her secret self denied desire
With petaled touch peels my lids slight to the drawing dawn light
Wakening within my loins a l...
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Categories:
unawake, love
Form: Couplet
Vortex
...I
did not
expect this
washed grey, unawake,
emptied nothing, slanted
meandering thru ageless days
that melt slowly at the seams of
every tomorrow spent waiting for
something, the something th...
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Categories:
unawake, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
A Laundry Kitten Sleeps
...Lying in the oddest of places
A pile of clothes on tattered blankets
He finds solitude and peace -
On the boldly coloured fleece.
A twitched expression, almost fear
In dreams about what kitty’s pond...
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Categories:
unawake, caregiving, love, nostalgia, pets,
Form: Free verse