Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
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We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, n...
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Categories:
vials, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
2:55
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Five vials of hope before 2:55,
An epinephrine Saturday feast
After midday, preventing time to arrive
Again, to stall the curse at least.
The single drop of tear tells it all,
I guess I've...
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Categories:
vials, dark, death, emotions, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Bedroom Wall
...Bedroom Wall
Hidden in
the small space in
my bedroom wall are a
bit flared skirts (witches skirts only), fairy shoes, bottles of
elf arm hairs, alien dried poop, urine vials too, and
lut...
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Categories:
vials, humor,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Whimsy Inspired By Catch the Rainbow
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Written: December 11, 2024, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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When dusk strikes, the magic swirls,
In the gra...
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Categories:
vials, analogy, appreciation, rainbow,
Form: Monorhyme
Jingle Bells and Family Ties
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Written: December 11, 2024 For contest Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "Cheers to a fresh new year and a fabulous opportunity for us to flourish!"
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Categories:
vials, analogy, appreciation, new year,
Form: Monorhyme
How was it possible?
...How was it possible? Ah, the mystery floats in the air, like a blue mist, dense and cold,
Enveloping the entire planet in a mantle of silence, of unspoken, unresolved questions,
In the eleventh hou...
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Categories:
vials, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Music Is The Drug
...MUSIC IS THE DRUG
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In the symphony of life, a rhapsody so grand,
Music as the drug, a magic at our command.²
Notes like whispers, touching deep within,
A symphony of soul, where new w...
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Categories:
vials, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
The One at The Right Hand
...??Isaiah 63:11-12 KJVAAE??
[11] Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that pu...
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Categories:
vials, faith,
Form: Free verse
Hands Of All That IS AT Hand
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Angel, so gentle a messenger a rescuer,
comfort to Men and Woman and our children,
you have their eye, you have always had our
attention, intentions in the back of our minds...
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Categories:
vials, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Spoon of Pain
...The spoon bubbles
Darkness sits
Vials of risk
Do not care
For pain
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Categories:
vials, addiction, dark, depression, drug,
Form: Other
Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
...Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux
Jan, of cou...
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Categories:
vials, halloween, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Book of Revelation's Seventh Seal and the Golden Censor Part Five
...Revelation's chapter 8 the seventh seal and the golden censor
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for
about a half of hour. And I saw the seven angels standing before
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Categories:
vials, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Journey
...They tell me to put one foot in front of the other
But why should I do that when I don’t know where I’m going?
Maybe they want me to wander forever
Alone, starving, a hollow-eyed husk of a girl
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Categories:
vials, angst, corruption, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Hope Upholder
...June 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 78-82
Key Verse – Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
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Categories:
vials, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Joy, Aging Is Thy Name
...The news
controls my views
Vials of pills
mountains of bills
Lack of sleep
counting sheep
Overeating
bowels bleeding
Tooth decay
more every day
Hair's tur...
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Categories:
vials, farewell, giggle, health, old,
Form: Couplet
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