Bless the Beast
..."bless the beast"
bless the beast who is helpless
small alone and defenseless
waiting to be loved
bless the beast who is hurting
who believes life is unrewarding
wanting to be loved...
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Categories:
unrewarding, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
My Sweet Relief
...Living yet I’m not alive
Frivolously stupefied
Uncaring of myself and I
Nonchalantly undefined
I used to compete but there’s no glory
Victory always unrewarding
Someone would appeared b...
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Categories:
unrewarding, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Races Within
...Racism research
and therapy
often oversimplify
Elite patriarchal against NonElite ecofeminist
LeftBrain dominant complexities
Confusion between LeftBrain privileged and RightBrain fragile,
El...
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Categories:
unrewarding, appreciation, games, peace, prejudice,
Form: Political Verse
Undaunted Mission
...This is not my place
But anyways.
A strangely unrewarding
Chain on my door.
What is it that I'm guarding,
What's the trouble all for?
Smoke
fills
rooms
Like ivory in tombs
We wouldn't b...
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Categories:
unrewarding, fantasy, journey,
Form: I do not know?
An Alliterative Abecedarian Composition
...Abecedarian poems are also known as alphabetical sequential writings.
Being deviously different and difficult to
Compile, compose and complete. Consequentially combining
Determination and deviant...
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Categories:
unrewarding, fun, words,
Form: Alliteration
Mother Day
...Many a tears for your children you've shed
Only you fully understand that love is yours
Tears are not only for sadness but for joy
Healing the pains and wiping their tears
Everything that you do ...
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Categories:
unrewarding, celebration, mothers day,
Form: Acrostic
Nirvana
...Like a wandering nomad
I roam this earth in a quandary,
Oblivious of the passing time,
Knowing not what I seek;
Obliterating each passing moment
as inconsequential,
Each passing year—
Unrewa...
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Categories:
unrewarding, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Holiday's Roadside Wreckage
...Holiday’s Roadside Wreckage
by Odin Roark
To live as you’re not
To be who society massages you into being
To succumb to counterfeit identity
Is to skid into mere roadside wre...
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Categories:
unrewarding, introspection,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Tormented Soul
...What’s this heavy weight? If I could see it,
I would launch it from my chest.
Do I not deserve a reason for cradling such a thing?
Do my shallow breaths not catch your attention?
When my arms begin ...
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Categories:
unrewarding, depression, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Who's In Control As You Fuss and Fight
...As their anger built and they lost control,
It was like something evil had possessed their soul.
The words they said burned like fire,
Seeking to hurt the other was their main desire.
It ...
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Categories:
unrewarding, family, happiness, husband, wife,
Form: Narrative
Debt Trap Vol.1
...DEBT MADE ME BITTER
CREEPING BENEATH MY NOSTRIL LIKE LITTLE CRITTERS
DEBT HAVE ROB MY JOY AND DREAMS
DROWNING ME THROUGH AN UNREWARDING STREAMS
I HAD MADE A PLEDGE
TO PAY OF THESE DEBT,
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Categories:
unrewarding, happiness, health, hope, me,
Form: Personification