Unintentional Self Harm
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I sought the balm of quiet streams,
The hush of leaves in twilight's seam.
A softer touch, a breathless sigh,
To soothe the ache, to still the cry.
Yet whispers grew, a haunting hum,
A melod...
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Categories:
unmeant, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Raised by Trauma
...My body is an ear.
Absorbing whispers meant for others' mouths that only close to wait to shove out more sound.
In other directions.
Towards another mouth.
Mouths who vomit sounds for the ...
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Categories:
unmeant, abuse, age, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Lovely
...Lovely
The way we string
Words to form
Ideas that were not unmeant
Yet meaning so much more, or may be less
To each our own devious end
Tower of Babel raised
Is it not just
Lovely?...
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Categories:
unmeant, introspection, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rictameter
Obfuscation
...Lovely
The way we string
Words together to form
Ideas that were not unmeant
Yet meaning so much more, or maybe less
To each our own devious end
Tower of Babble raised
Is it not just
L...
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Categories:
unmeant, conflict, humor, introspection, language,
Form: Rictameter
Sentimental Lines For Rose
...O, fair heavenly Rose! How I sigh,
and sigh all the more! to smell your scent
and fresh bouquet, before I soon die
from a bleak, although unrepentant,
death! To never unite is u...
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Categories:
unmeant, best friend, friendship, friendship
Form: Lyric
Time In the Sun
...It’s nine twenty-five, I’m still on the sand
the sun has been gone for an hour
the blow of the ocean has started its rush
as I say goodbye to the sea
The salty impressions ...
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Categories:
unmeant, life, metaphor, sun, time,
Form: Free verse
Tarnished Dreams
..."Midnight cast its cloudy beams
From the gloom the shadows went
Smudging all the tarnished dreams"
Lying deep inside my mind, it seems,
My thoughts become twisted and bent
“M...
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Categories:
unmeant, imagination, mental illness,
Form: Villanelle
No Further Spread of Needless Fear
...Sprout out the doubt
In your social, business, romantic or spiritual life aspects
Buttressed by the clout
Normally evident in several respects
With undaunted determination to improve prospects...
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Categories:
unmeant, poems,
Form: Free verse
Why Die So Young, Why Die So Innocent In Classrooms
...Narratives of students shot in cold blood
Not on a shooting range
Draw a mass media headline flood
Background check seems a request strange
To diehard hearts hooked to the dollar
From a gun lo...
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Categories:
unmeant, poems,
Form: Free verse
Hearts Confession
...hearts confession
soul set free from
bondage
flying free
shoring above
unmeant desires
of the spirit of love
that had been stifled
trapped underneath
the regrets of the past
that w...
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Categories:
unmeant, love,
Form: Lyric
Sos of the Heart
...SOS of unmeant needs
subliminal messages
overtly stated
meant to be
strictly adhered to
by all who saw the
emotional morse code
a continues distress single
set out for all to witness
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Categories:
unmeant, cry,
Form: Lyric
One Day To Reveal
...Reveling in the glow of tomorrow
silhouettes of all the yesterdays
my today in just 24 hours
unbeknownst shall be revealed
the heart of the gallant
the eye of the enchanted
reunited by fate ...
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Categories:
unmeant, beautiful, deep, desire, destiny,
Form: Romanticism
Unmeant Meanings
... Unmeant meanings
Words keep watch
their eyes in the empty spaces
fingers feel their unformed faces
Can words mean what they were not...
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Categories:
unmeant, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Was This the Apple
...Was this the apple,then,your mother's breast,
Which father thought was his to oft caress?
And when ,in deprived rage,you bit to test
In return he vowed to ever you harass.
At this you learned t...
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Categories:
unmeant, angst, growth, love,
Form: Sonnet
Forgiven
...A sense of lost was felt
A sense of being wasn’t until…
A hearten iciness did not melt
Encasing those of sins to feel
Drifting away becomes welcoming
Serving no one with something to lose
No ...
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Categories:
unmeant, loss, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
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