Unconquered Poems

HEAVEN IS VERB AND NOUN

...     Heaven, synonymous with 
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~ 
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an 
anechoic  reality________
all els...
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Categories: unconquered, allegory, allusion, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Walking the land

...# Walking the Land

I walk this land
    inspired not by what I want from life
        but by the constellation of possibilities
            unfurling before me

I walk this land
    driven b...
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Categories: unconquered, bullying, child, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning

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“The Road to Maximus and Winter’s de-Reckoning” 

Winter pulled me into Her
like I was Her new season
and cooly stroked my fevered skin 
like the contours of my body 
we...
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Categories: unconquered, muse,
Form: Narrative

Friendship

...I was speaking to a friend

She said nothing had changed

But her eyes revealed

That nothing was the same



I stood looking at my friend

I had known since just a child

She indicated...
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Categories: unconquered, best friend, confidence, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Tilted Laments

...Is it my grief?
That i behold?
That i knoweth ongoing sorrow
Waterless doves?
None other, a city?
Just? As a city dweller?
Dwelling, in mired filth?
Unconquered mime, play!
At once! Be tainti...
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Categories: unconquered, allegory, america, class, discrimination,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberReality of dreams

...stumbling, my way through the maze,
for what purpose and going where?
evening is thickening in to darkness,
a vague fleeting thought of where am I?
no one to call to, no one to share life with,
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Categories: unconquered, allusion, conflict, dream, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Teacher's Lament

...In the classroom, a battlefield unseen,
I stand, a warrior with chalk for a sword.
My armour, compassion; my shield, devotion,
Fighting for minds yet to be explored.

But the enemy advances, col...
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Categories: unconquered, education, endurance, teacher,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUpon the wings of time, we intertwined our spirits

...Upon the wings of time, we intertwined our spirits,
Seeking the harmony of eternity, a gentle ocean of song.
A kiss unfurled the creed of ancient silences,
And in a waltz, we joined, with sufferin...
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Categories: unconquered, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberViolins

...Violins plucking strings
of horsehair, satin ribbons
violet violate a dark
foresaken world
like a beautiful dream 
romance unravels 
the sweet pain 
comes undone
then those wild horses
dance...
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Categories: unconquered, muse, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe, the solitary woman, mistress of the shadows of silence

...She, the solitary woman, mistress of the shadows of silence,
Hides in the depths of your mind, like an evanescent moonbeam,
A specter that watches in the dark, like an unsaid secret,
In the labyri...
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Categories: unconquered, solitude, women,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMystery of May

...I was an unfathomable mystery writer, producing novels for ardent readers,
Much like a mystery of vanishing pearly moon, as sun comes up to greet her.

My days were spent devising fresh plots, lik...
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Categories: unconquered, fantasy, imagery, may, missing,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFate

...fearless I stand strong
In the midst of wrath and tears~
master of my fate

darkness all around,
yet I rise, unafraid, strong~
captain of my soul

In the clutch of fate,
my soul ...
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Categories: unconquered, analogy, character, fate, success,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberThe Tree

...The bark was almost the color
of charcoal and too rough 
for a boy to grip and hold on
to climb without bare skin 
being grazed and scraped
back to bloodied welts.
The trunk was scabbed in gum
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Categories: unconquered, childhood, seasons, tree,
Form: Free verse

Invictus

...In the darkest depths, without my sight,
A soul unyielding, endless is the night.
Through trials fierce, I stand, I stand alone,
With spirit unwavering, when free I roam.

No matter storms that ...
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Categories: unconquered, 12th grade,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberThe Showdown

...'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade 
Who had widows and orphans throughout the west made.

The ...
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Categories: unconquered, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain

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