Headwinds
...Uphill battles are won and lost in the crosswinds
Gusts of defiance brazenly slap across the terrain
If a path is forged it must be carved with a machete
Steppingstones nothing but laughable after...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, perspective,
Form: Free verse
murder caused by alcohol yet again
...murder
alcohol
drug induced state
uncharacteristic
madness...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, murder,
Form: Cinqku
unadorned
...
falsified ashes
uncharacteristic dust
synthetic flashes
artificial wind blows rust
plainly felt when life goes bust
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, allusion, earth, perspective,
Form: Tanka
Apple Orchards Harvest In July, You Rot In October
...I pick your apples with a gentleness uncharacteristic of my kind.
I eat them with a fervor that may only come from me.
You are my garden of Eden and I ...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, 9th grade, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Enduring Part Two of Illness Journey Poems
...*** ENDURING ***
(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”
Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery,
Absorbing the basic radiant lig...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, character, faith, fear, health,
Form: Prose
Fifth Seasons
...There are places, things,
and times experienced by us.
Each of these experiences has
a character of its own. Yes,
there may be similarities,
but each is distinct.
The word for Winter is 'cold...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, angel, christian, conflict, confusion,
Form: Verse
And Then Stupor Takes Over
...You might perchance think: why this change of heart,
But things do change. Not so is from change free,
Give me one chance, one chance for a new start.
I thought, he cannot think of life sans me...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, marriage, women,
Form: Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 23
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Erlenkönig knelt to the ground, his urge to destroy Reginn was strong but he knew it was one or the other. Rid yourself of Reginn or stop this coup. He chose to stop the take over and reached ...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Mahatma Gandhiji
...My humble tribute to a great personality:
When India won freedom, he did not attend the celebration, rather he was on road helping all, trying to end communal violence. He said how can I celebrate...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, 10th grade,
Form: Double Dactyl
Two Lovers Vi - Paper Plates
...Out with his boys drinking, feeling rowdy
Special occasion
Rolling the way they do
His lover is not with them
She stayed in for the night
He misses her company
But enjoys his time with the guys...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, love, love hurts, men,
Form: Free verse
Scalar and Vector
...now we come to the taboo part of our presentation
in which the secret of all time will be revealed
to those who wish to understand understanding
characters arranged in uncharacteristic sequence
a...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Two-Faced River
...The long uncharacteristic meandering river its trail vanishe...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, poverty,
Form: Political Verse
Brave American Knight
...Driving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice to the figure; my lonely life was in a rut.
He was just...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, character, hero, strength, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Unconventional Mingling
...unconventional
mingling which
deviated from
the norm created
atypical interactions
in which the uncharacteristic
irregularity became normal
standard even within the
land of relationshi...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, psychological,
Form: Lyric
Confused
...
Confused
Written: by Tom Wright
7/22/2017
Recently, I experienced Sudden Cardiac Arrest,
Doctors said any hope of my living looked grim.
But to the power of prayer I can readily atte...
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Categories:
uncharacteristic of, celebration, god, health, heaven,
Form: Lyric
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