A broken chain or A cursed covenant
...A court-ordered fist full of responsibility.
An anonymous man, unraveling beneath the weight of his own faulty circuitry.
Infidelity sparked a chain of conformity—one so unfortunate, it defied pr...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, 12th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
A Childhood Friend
...It was a normal day,
The day he had his first puff.
Children played beneath the sun,
And weary songs filled the air.
Time didn’t stop as he’d been told,
Not even the old man cast a glance
As ...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, addiction, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Hunger Unfed
...
Many a hunger goes unfed.
Some adjust and live with it,
finding satisfaction in suitable activities.
Others push that hunger down, deeper and deeper,
filling the empty hole inside themselves
w...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, people,
Form: Prose
The Last Memory
...I sit to ponder on my life and death,
knowing one day my memories will end.
As I approach my last days I don't want yesterday,
to be more important than tomorrow.
I don't want to relive the shade...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, life,
Form: Free verse
Life For the Aged
...Life for the Aged
Old age comes with an eighteen wheeler’s load of hurt.
Old age comes with the rest of life, permeated with pain.
Old age comes with loads of memories, experiences missed.
Ol...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, old,
Form: Free verse
Cognitive Dissonance
...Mind, the architect of life’s structure,
obeys what is learnt as the art of living.
Heart, the carrier of nonlinear abstract intellect,
breathes emotive truth in the framework of being.
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Categories:
unfulfilling, conflict, confusion, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Eagle Impression
...In days, when I was in twenties, I thought,
Looking at an eagle made my blood clot;
A crude-looking rude being that could kill,
A chick and feel this act as just chill-pill...!
Scavenger bir...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Conquered and Departed
...You came you conquered, tearing foundations from the ground up. Up went fictitious buildings with hollow fronts easily to be exploited again. The time it took to accept what was, what could have been...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Sonata By Moonlight
...Dancing in the moonlight
Fanciful figures appear in the mist
With flowing white gowns
And a crown of pink lilacs exist
Love conquers the coldest of hearts
Turns men into little boys
A...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, life,
Form: Rhyme
Family Mediations
...I have confronted family,
and acquaintances
at the edge of my familiars
to understand my hurt
when they economically
and politically
and socially
and monoculturally
StraightWhiteMale privileg...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, america, anti bullying, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Torturous Existence
...It hurts when it feels like everything is up in the air,
It hurts when life doesn't seem fair
It hurts when happiness disappears without warning,
It hurts when you have to endure unceasing mourn...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, cry, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Couplet
Complication
...Complication
I felt the suction as you pulled back
The room fell silent, stale
Breath hung in my throat
Clung like smoke
Each swallow a tightening rope
A little less hope
You were already...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, absence, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Love Or Lust
...Love
Passionate, romantic
Pining, enduring, pleasing
Sweetheart, fiancée, pick-up, convenience
Uncaring, unsatisfying, unfulfilling
Quick, disastrous
Lust
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Categories:
unfulfilling, crush, love, lust, meaningful,
Form: Diamante
Roses of Agony
...I am being told to let go
By almost everyone I know
Release, let it out, let it be
Plunge into passivity
While I cling to bitter beauty
My bruises bloom a thorny tree
Guarding roses of agony...
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Categories:
unfulfilling, anger, grief, pain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Gadflies and Honeybees
...Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?
Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
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Categories:
unfulfilling, culture, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
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