wounded earth
...Wounded Earth
we did a big deal to destroy your dear earth
coming from a broken heart for you
letting you to melt in our quest of unending race
making you more sick and week
asking for ...
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Categories:
unrepairable, 10th grade, corruption, earth
Form: Ballad
the competition
...(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)
I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.
The sun finally rises and its...
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Categories:
unrepairable, angst, anxiety, devotion, growing
Form: Free verse
Jane-By-The-Sea
...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t...
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Categories:
unrepairable, friendship, girl,
Form: Free verse
It's Okay
...It's okay
It's okay Not to be Okay
It's okay to feel frozen in the midst,
To feel trapped in the storm,
It's okay to feel struck by a thunder
To feel broken and unrepairable.
It's okay
It's...
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Categories:
unrepairable, courage, devotion, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Grimey
...It shreds me when released, then bursts into confetti.
Words are papier-mâché, articles of all of us, tabloids torn apart then glued
back together piece by piece.
Playing pretend made a masterpie...
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Categories:
unrepairable, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
...
And you didn’t make me
I formed myself
From the periodic table
with a little help
You added slurs and
blackened my milk
Turned me into a scapegoat
and my flesh to filth
And you nev...
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Categories:
unrepairable, creation, men, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Up and About, Feeling Empty
...I feel rather empty…
Flushed, confused, free me?
I’m feeling kinda dirty
To be honest, I’m fake happy
Wearing a smile like the rest of us
But, there’s a million rivers and fires between us
So...
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Categories:
unrepairable, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Twas the Night Before Cexmas
...This poem was submitted for a work competition at CEX
Twas the first day of CeXmas, and all through the land
The taverns were a buzz as grog was in hand,
Participants were giddy about the quests...
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Categories:
unrepairable, character, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Unrepairable
...Loss
Loss of hope
Loss of pride
Loss of dignity
Loss of willingness.
Willingness to work
Willingness to wake up in the morning
Willingness to play the part
Willingness to care
Willingness to...
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Categories:
unrepairable, deep, depression, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Hope and Resilience
...Quest the shove your fate, my mate.
With the advice of the dough of joy sate,
To coincidentally run into one's soulmate.
In the way of other options, we baste.
Though worries wer...
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Categories:
unrepairable, analogy, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
You Did It First
...The day you took your life,
You destroyed our family.
Unrepairable damage,
You couldn’t possibly foresee.
But you were caught up in your own pain,
And you needed it to cease.
So, you went for ...
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Categories:
unrepairable, angst, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
A Crack Heard Round the World
...It's just a small crack
much like the one in the Old Liberty Bell
but here it is again growing,
in the torch of Lady Liberty's hand;
like any crack first made
it tends to grow and stretch
re...
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Categories:
unrepairable, allusion,
Form: Epitaph
The Competition
...I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.
The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I dry my hair.
A meal, like a forced dose, we soak ou...
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Categories:
unrepairable, 11th grade, confidence, emotions,
Form: Free verse
If Only, I Wish, Maybe
...If Only…I Wish…Maybe…
If only…
Shards of shame
Lay splintered
In unresolved pieces –
Bits of crystal intentions
Unrepairable…
I wish…
Minutes of regret
Not revived –
Living unreachable...
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Categories:
unrepairable, angst, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
In a Split Second Ii
...A train door closes packed with passengers.
Destinations being most different than others.
Typical light touches, embarrassing rubbing,
Lastly, the ever so bothersome nudging.
Unfinished co...
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Categories:
unrepairable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
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