Half-and-Half Between
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half light on the page
words spill yet swallow their truth
a moon veiled in clouds —
I read between the shadows
for the part you did not write
half a tear is mine
half I give to other hands...
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Categories:
unsettles, loss, remember, sorrow,
Form: Tanka
Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
unsettles, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
If we humans were to create the vast nature in a dream life
...If we humans were to create the vast nature in a dream life,
A sky like a sponge would absorb the pollution spreading around,
Each day heavy with clouds that hide the divine brilliance,
The vastne...
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Categories:
unsettles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Unsettled Vitality
...The betrayal offences rendered on us daily unsettles swiftly progress.
They simmer and stir and spread.
Resentment, unforgiveness lead us to revenge.
Bitterness spreads so contagiously like ...
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Categories:
unsettles, bible, christian, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
In the undulations of thought, a whisper of freedom is born
...In the undulations of thought, a whisper of freedom is born,
Like a silver river carving its path through cliffs of prejudice,
Whispering truths that ache, yet heal in their profound silence.
Word...
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Categories:
unsettles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Spreading Happiness
...Seldom pleasure I receive in my mind.
Probably due to severe bad weather?
Rather! My serotonin’s left behind.
Enough of the freezing stone cold weather!
Admit that life’s not always beautiful.
D...
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Categories:
unsettles, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
Not Knowing
...Not knowing..
I need to know
About the world
About myself and
I am dedicated to
Expanding my
Knowing..and I
Know that I will
Be happier as my
Knowledge enlarges..
I hop...
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Categories:
unsettles, anxiety, confusion, encouraging, joy,
Form: Blank verse
The Helix of Eden
...I am walking in the garden
of an ancient city
The walls are covered
with climbing ivy of a delicate hue
The dews are thick after the warm rains
There in the middle, the stately statue
withst...
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Categories:
unsettles, allegory, allusion, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme
Something About David
...Something about David, unsettles me
Something about David, is different
I saw . . . the warning sign
It came, with my compulsion, to be near him
To console and comfort him
To share the nerve, t...
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Categories:
unsettles, death,
Form: Verse
Goodnight
...Nights spent, drenched in fear
Knives available, pills in abundance
Weight of the world, shoulders bear too much
Journey's end is close, any further, too far
Will buckles again, giving up once mo...
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Categories:
unsettles, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Lips
...A Red Rose her mouth
An upturned curve a pout
Two waves that rise
The shape of her lips
She holds loves confluence
At the very tips
Beautiful thoughts
That burn below
Releasing a kiss
Nice a...
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Categories:
unsettles, kiss, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water Ii
...Gradually the crystalizing dawn -- more hardened
Than folded steel --- more sharper than
The blade that cuts!
Wisps of thin vapour, once loitering insidiously
At the steps of each ...
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Categories:
unsettles, appreciation, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Wishful Wink
...Self-seeking combined with appetite
unsettles our global foundations.
Arrogant malice yields agony
as volatile as dynamite.
Diplomats dream up celebrations
portraying worldwide euphony.
Dazzli...
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Categories:
unsettles, 11th grade, rose,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Worthy of Praise
...What makes a poem poetry finds life between its lines,
A gift some readers strain to see, like secret Valentines
The poet hides in sacred text, a Bible I might use,
(Not something that a class ass...
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Categories:
unsettles, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Twilight Lyre
...The sunset whispers get together in the bowl
The electricity hands them over the momentum
The oranges in the soul a bit out of control
The golden darkness stirs the dormant venom
My hor...
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Categories:
unsettles, beauty, desire, love, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
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