a shatter of silence
...
“A fight of voice exceeds one of fists.”
Bludgeoned, broken, cast away,
Time devours, your name decay,
Ascend beyond the gilded throne,
Unsung, unrested, still overthrown.
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Categories:
unrested, angst, appreciation, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Bookends
...Weekends are a little like
Bookends
They stop you falling
Or lolling too far over
So you don't appear untidy or
At least not so
Uncomfortable
They keep you straight
Give you
Purpose
Sh...
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Categories:
unrested, books, feelings, friendship,
Form: Free verse
The Bargaining Wench Wanting Payment
...
Shadows hiss_per, of secret,
buildup-congealed,
no longer trapped within curiosity's seals.
Oceans of thoughts crash, unrested,
on the rocks and hard-placed
reveal of fait...
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Categories:
unrested, art,
Form: Rhyme
Gogyohka Mornings
...Unrested mornings
Sometimes want to linger
Maybe spend the day
Under the covers
To read a novel about another life ...
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Categories:
unrested, introspection,
Form: Other
Ronnie Colyer My Hero
...Picture day a day that I from self consciousness detested
add to my gap toothed grin wild eyed and unrested
In first grade sitting next to a handsome young man in a suit
Bouncing along on the bu...
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Categories:
unrested, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Unlisted
...Invested, unrested, the minutes appear shorter everyday
Infected, unprotected not liking the games they play
Rated, unmotivated everyone seems to know their part
Hated, unrelated figured it...
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Categories:
unrested, addiction, america, anger, corruption,
Form: Couplet
Land Ho
...Land ho!
If I can just make it to that post….
Bird was exhausted, but distant dot gave him hope
Now if you can make it to the next landing spot
You have it made, an inner voice said
Bird asked...
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Categories:
unrested, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Personification
There Were Six of Us Now
...my murderer was long gone
I had felt his dissatisfaction upon his departure
Knew I had died too soon to please him
there would be other victims
the snowy months were the best,
soothing me a bi...
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Categories:
unrested, murder,
Form: Free verse
Underloved
...It's early morning,
And I'm in silence without noise;
Some thoughts wander, I can't reach them,
They were eager to see dawn.
My porch's sagging, rain is present,
You may be somewhere alone.
A...
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Categories:
unrested, deep, desire, feelings, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
The Knight Tempar
...In my home I laid asleep in my bed, resting from all my writing and works. When again a spirit called forth to me, seeker of souls he who writes for the father and our lord Yeshua come forth. Unreste...
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Categories:
unrested, age, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Had a Friend Called Foreign
...I’m offended you ended our friendship without an incident or chance, you’ve change your view of me but how when there’s been no me to see, wrong end of the stick and we unclip a drunken message opini...
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Categories:
unrested, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Existence
...between new nightmares
and day dreams
of a better life
lay reality resurfaced
tight with taut brutality
unspeakable thoughts drift
down through time's flash
triggered not there
not then
but ...
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Categories:
unrested, conflict, courage, dark, hope,
Form: Alliteration
Forsaken Voices
...I hear the utter in my mind with comfort and ease,
but will my insanity find that these voices could cease?
There’s the noise and confusion, unrested and weary,
I may never recover from this ...
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Categories:
unrested, mental illness, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Unrested Spirit Rest
...A feeling of unsettled turmoil
The deeper I query the more uproar
I gather my thoughts of uneasiness
The further I probe the greater restlessness
Stillness is what is required now
Silence the ...
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Categories:
unrested, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Antiecological Apartheid
...Patriotically empowered boundaries of apartheid
are also economic and ecological apartheid
of borders unrecognized by MatrioticEarth.
Economic and ecological apartheid
of Earth's nature ourselv...
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Categories:
unrested, caregiving, education, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
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