Roshidere
...Silver-haired princess
Masks her heart with icy glares
Russian secrets bloom
Whispered words like snowflakes fall
Melting on his unhearing ears
Classroom desk neighbors
She scolds his sleepy ...
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Categories:
unhearing, high school,
Form: Tanka
A Sob For Truth
...
The world is dying, yet the quietness develops,
As shadows shroud the cries underneath the stone.
Where when we discussed harmony, presently nobody knows,
The reverberations suffocated by voices...
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Categories:
unhearing, cry, future, world,
Form: Sonnet
Dancer
...Talented but lone like the last flower in the row
Loves music very much
But cannot hear the rhythm
Defected from an ankle but wants to dance
Love music very much
Likes to move on the unheari...
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Categories:
unhearing, 10th grade, angel, anger,
Form: Pantoum
Calling School Bus Drivers
...School bus drivers stay aware with eyes peeled
For cyclists who are out there peddling wheels
Watch out for those who travel on foot too
Students who saunter along as they do
The elderly, bli...
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Categories:
unhearing, journey, school,
Form: Rhyme
Faith
...Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is right, hold to your heart and fight ,
is at the same time doing ...
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Categories:
unhearing, april,
Form: Rhyme
Willow
...Ever wonder why a willow would want to weep
While dreams haunt you as you sleep
Somedays blur by
You try ,
But in doing what is right, hold to your heart and fight ,
is at the same time doing ...
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Categories:
unhearing, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
The Tumultuous Tracks of Nature
...As my legs grow into trunks and my arms into branches, the leaves of my leavings fall and sprout seeds among the grasses.
Spreading my roots through the mud, bringing myself a sort of immortality, ...
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Categories:
unhearing, anxiety, art, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Hatred Hatred
...The wings blemish on the laminate panel.
The zany suit shudders at dainty muscle.
Sparkling splashes on abhorring emerge.
Brainless spirits shine over despot spurge.
Ill-mannered...
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Categories:
unhearing, abuse, allegory, anxiety, character,
Form: Sonnet
Funner To Be Kind
...Easy to be cruel
against sublime unitarian longings
stewed in outdoor green/blue sunshine
reproducing universal solitude belonging
Within this multiculturally hued
resilient solidarity
I like...
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Categories:
unhearing, caregiving, education, environment, fun,
Form: Political Verse
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
...Athenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owne...
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Categories:
unhearing, animal, best friend, death
Form: Epitaph
Your Long Angular Feet
...Your Long Angular Feet
You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tr...
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Categories:
unhearing, travel,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Be
...Let me be a light
A beacon
A hope
For the sightless
Let me be a shelter
A home
A refuge
For the homeless
Let me be music
A song
A melody
For the unhearing
Let me be faith
A message...
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Categories:
unhearing, prayer,
Form: Imagism
Life's Greatest Regret
...
I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling, burst into flames
set a...
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Categories:
unhearing, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Once Again
...Let us fall, once again,
into the oblivion of unknowing,
unseeing, unhearing.
Let us fall, once again,
into touch and feel and skin on skin.
Let me feel, once again,
your heartbeat beneath y...
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Categories:
unhearing, emotions, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Felix Seely: a Spoon River Poem
...Now there are special classes for those like me--
"special-needs" people. That sounds so much
kinder than the harsh terms in use when I was
alive: "...
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Categories:
unhearing, community, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
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