growing gills
...After "Being a Person" by William Stafford
“suddenly this dream you are having matches
everyone’s dream, and the result is the world”
the synchronicity, perfect
beating like a heart in a box
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Categories:
unbreathable, 12th grade, creation, writing,
Form: Free verse
Incarnation
...Having been so long untouched,
I’d become a child beyond touch
and unclean.
So, when suffocatingly
roused from a nightmare of death
to unbreathable silence
in an oxygen tent, I cried
afrai...
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Categories:
unbreathable, 2nd grade, childhood, cry,
Form: Free verse
By the Sea
...Cold air breeze flowing over the shore, as an lifesaver floats on the glistening water illuminated by the sun, most memorable during the day as many above have fun
Frightened of the ferocious sea-...
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Categories:
unbreathable, 10th grade, poetry, sea,
Form: Bio
I wish I had
...Once upon a silent summer eve,
as fine vermilion lines,
between bleeding moonlight,
swiftly sailed across
my darkness and I,
sakura springs sang
dulcet melodies of
a deathless d...
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Categories:
unbreathable, angst,
Form: Free verse
50 Shades 0f Blood
...1..A rusty door-nail leaks a drying crust.
2..The taint of copper pennies.
3.Salt licking the scars of the unhealed.
4..A sunset burning dry corn.
5.Eyes bruised by anger.
6.Lips cut by stinging...
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Categories:
unbreathable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poem of the Day
...You asked me for a poem today.
I raised the roof of my skull
like the hood of a jalopy,
I replaced the sparkplugs and
Revved my six cylinders, smoking
Choking an unbreathable cloud,
My tarn...
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Categories:
unbreathable, imagery, inspiration, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Convenient Slated To Receive Second Dose
...How convenient slated to receive second dose...
COVID-19 February 13th, 2021
Here at Highland Manor apartments
me and the missus occupy room B44
courtesy qualified medical personnel
Lansdale, ...
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Categories:
unbreathable, adventure, africa, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
Where Have Our Emotions Gone
...Parents beating their own children
Husbands beating their wives
Mother-in-law and sister-in-law torturing daughter-in-law
Where have our emotions gone?
Rich hoarding lot of money
Not rea...
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Categories:
unbreathable, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Modern Devil
...O! devastating devil,
you poured poison in the
garden of angels.
Because of you the water of the river darkened.
Angels surrendered to your witchcraft,
Say why every paths of men made you thron...
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Categories:
unbreathable, allegory, character, heartbroken, leadership,
Form: Light Verse
Drowning
...I'm drowning.
When I breath in, my lungs yell in complaint as the thick, unbreathable air floods them,
They try to reject it but no matter what happens, I'm still left breathless.
Depression is a ...
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Categories:
unbreathable, depression, emotions, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
All But a Dream
...How easily you return,
Within this mind's hindsight,
Never knowing how the swelling,
Gaping hole of your absence,
Weighs me down heavily,
With the confusion of your presence
In my dreams...
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Categories:
unbreathable, addiction, allusion, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Reality
...We've become so numb to
everything around us
We see four wall
Windows and doors.
We hear phones
And conversations
We watch the clock
Like it's the only thing in the
world
The sun ri...
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Categories:
unbreathable, life
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But Nowhere
...When ceilings were cast on dreams
air thickened, swelling lungs
with unbreathable mediocrity
pen is clutched
in reluctance of dim witted judgement,
small minded skewed views,
all pushing tow...
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Categories:
unbreathable, introspection
Form: Free verse
Spy Versus Spy Versus Spy
...If looks and money are what your about
your not getting very far with me
If you believe we use sattelites in space to watch television
you have to be kidding me
One happy victom
center of atte...
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Categories:
unbreathable, adventure, angst, confusion, education,
Form: Free verse
9/11 Catastrophe Untold By the Media
...still alarmed by tests
new york air unbreathable
dead dog's ev'rywhere...
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Categories:
unbreathable, art,
Form: Haiku
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