The Wild Mirror
...A hundred years passed through these halls.
If you walk inside, you see ivy on the walls.
But that one mirror remains unshattered.
Even as the piles of clothes lay tattered.
The door is open ...
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Categories:
unshattered, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Behind the Facade: The Real Borga Borga Story
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The infamous Borga Borga! Kings of self-deception, lords of make-believe, and emperors of "I've got it all together"!
They travel to far-off lands, where the streets are paved with gold (or so...
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Categories:
unshattered, africa, anti bullying, art,
Form: Spoken Word
Behind the Facade: The Real Borga Borga Story
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The infamous Borga Borga! Kings of self-deception, lords of make-believe, and emperors of "I've got it all together"!
They travel to far-off lands, where the streets are paved with gold (or so...
...
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Categories:
unshattered, africa, anti bullying, art,
Form: Spoken Word
A Quiet Knowing
...There’s no need to look further than this moment,
no need to reach or strive.
The spirit is here, as steady as your heartbeat—
gentle, like the warmth of hands intertwined,
as familiar as the g...
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Categories:
unshattered, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Past That I Remembered
...Sometimes back, I used to be...
A role without a model, a student without success,
Where “sounds great” was a phrase I struggled to express.
But sometimes back, I used to be...
A star in ...
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Categories:
unshattered, anxiety, betrayal, childhood, evil,
Form: Bio
The Language of the Undone
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“The Language of the Undone”
I prefer
them
over humans
those velvet souls
loving
the lesser
parts of me
always
more than anyone
else cares to admit
...
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Categories:
unshattered, love,
Form: Free verse
Good times don't come for everybody
...She waited
In silence and dismay
Yet with hope
of seeing better days ahead...
She saw them coming
But couldn't make them stay
They flew away
and vanished in haze...
With a broken heart
sti...
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Categories:
unshattered, heartbroken, life,
Form: Free verse
Twisted Heartstrings
...We broke up But never dated.
Cause I fell so deeply in love,
With a girl who never related.
How could my heart be so dumb,
Maybe its what it means to be young.
Then why is my soul left in ta...
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Categories:
unshattered, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Two Sides of a Coin: Summer and Rain
...The sunny days have arrived
The lost warmth has been revived
yes! the one lost in the winters behind
amidst the cold and windy weather on every side.
The increasing heat of this warm hug
wi...
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Categories:
unshattered, nature,
Form: Free verse
Teardrops
...Let cheer drop in your hands…
Your quivering, hefty hands held on to liberty lands…
Let teardrops fall upon the sands…
You tear at my once unshattered, ungrieving soul
Tattered and torn in the ...
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Categories:
unshattered, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Sleeping Volcano
...Snow falls in quiet drifts,
covering the ground like cooled ash
where mountains rise to pierce the sky
and plunge into the mirror-lake,
unshattered.
Shores curve around smooth water
like a cre...
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Categories:
unshattered, nature,
Form: Free verse
Living As Fog
...Hovering vapor poised above a melting evanesce of vision,
Floats with ambivalent attention towards the North and East’s collision.
Watch the fog as it walks with nonchalance aloft the lake benea...
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Categories:
unshattered, imagery, life, repetition, water,
Form: Couplet
A Friend of Yours
...A friend of yours
Be what it may
Can I hear your words and believe they are truth
Dare I think any different
Erratic thoughts do cause turmoil
Frantically I search your eyes
Give me reason to ...
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Categories:
unshattered, break up, emotions, feelings,
Form: Abecedarian
The Unshattered
...they think they are true
they think it is right
what they do
what they have done
they are UNSHATTERED
the ones that don't know truth
the ones who don't see freedom
they are UNSHATTERED...
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Categories:
unshattered, political,
Form: Free verse
Lleda's Thoughts
...LLeda's bronzed fingertips
gently brushed the onyx wisps
of hair from her furrowed brow
times of yesteryear now
flirting with her thoughts;
mingled like grapevines, caught
between fantasy, and...
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Categories:
unshattered, life, on writing and
Form: Free verse
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