Bamboo
...Grant me rest under your lissome stems
Let me hide from the raindrops — shiny globules
That drip with tropical hauteur,
Rain that harms the ribs with cold rebukes.
Welcome me within your greenish...
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Categories:
upheave, africa, environment, life,
Form: Ode
Again
...It comes in waves
Before you know it
Was it always there
It comes in waves
You didn’t think about it today
Did I make it up
Is pain a feeling I’ve ever known
It comes in waves
This time was...
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Categories:
upheave, abuse, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Misty Morn
...In the morning, when flowers bloom,
Lilacs fragrance weave sweet perfume.
A weary heart, it longs to rest,
Tranquil slumber, it does cajole.
My guitar
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Categories:
upheave, morning,
Form: Quatern
Whispered Morning Glow Secrets
...Written: September 16, 2023
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Arcane sunlight in early morning stillness,
Dancing by a veil of mist with rare brilliance....
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Categories:
upheave, analogy, appreciation, beauty, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Speech Gets Silenced
...Speech Gets Silenced
8/23/2023
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If you follow all laws and pay all your taxes.
Prepare for FEDS to come after you.!
If you dare worry about your r...
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Categories:
upheave, innocence, judgement,
Form: Quatrain
Soothe Strong
...I’ve hated myself and gated my true self/
Tired I waited for health basics to shelve/
Take care of yourself during young ages to delve
Shake bare sore urges yearning numb phases to evolve/
Intake...
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Categories:
upheave, anxiety, art, courage, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Rain Soothed Agony
...Lone souls dance with my spirit in the realm of love.
Sad fragrances wafted through a full-moon glow.
Melt in a hazy cherry glow and fit you alike a glove.
Fateful frozen fractions ...
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Categories:
upheave, analogy, appreciation, rain, stars,
Form: Pantoum
Sonnet 12
...Not long I need to let mine heart to shrink
From thine earnest appeal wherein did sink
And firm beneath its heav’nly charm it live
With glorious joyance thence loth to upheave.
So gently thou t...
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Categories:
upheave, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The White Tiger
...A pure-hearted soul, a floating shining spirit,
The honest power to make someone clearest,
A natured life, where all suffer and feel,
But yet, the strongest must have no fear,
The passion...
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Categories:
upheave, abuse, angst, bullying, care,
Form: Free verse
Hypothesis of Grief
...All day out of sorts with self I fluttered like a leaf
Upon a monstrous limb of grief
There was nothing in psychology or even belief
I found to bring my soul relief
All day with smoke filled eyes...
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Categories:
upheave, philosophywords, tree, day, life,
Form: Verse