Mountain of lies
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By: Khomotso Makitla
Dear loved one, It’s me your UNREQUITED LOVER.
In hope I hoped that this day never unveil.
As your WHISPERS still roam free in brain, whispers
and hisses of broken prom...
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Categories:
vital organ, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Soul Speak
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"Come, said my Soul. Such verses for my Body
let us write, for we are one." ~ Walt Whitman
Human hearts and souls are often linked together
But is it fair to them to say they're birds...
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Categories:
vital organ, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Under the mystical veil of night, where stars whisper ancient secrets
...Under the mystical veil of night, where stars whisper ancient secrets,
I feel my failure intensely, as if it were a vital organ,
Birthed by merciless gods, growing from the side of my head.
You ca...
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Categories:
vital organ, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Tip
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At the end
of the river's exhausted reach
where swamp firmed
into solid ground, there was a place
the locals used as a tip.
Broken, worn out stuff
from clean outs, hoarded
household effects...
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Categories:
vital organ, childhood, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
vital organ, word play,
Form: Footle
Broken Heart
...That vital organ
That pumps blood throughout
We’d die without it, there’s no doubt.
And yet
When it breaks and is betrayed
The person is already slayed.
The heart is a fickle, foolish beast...
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Categories:
vital organ, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Power of Prayer
...At a time when a vital organ of mine began to fail,
I thought that was the beginning of the end.
The miserable mind plunged in the abyss of despair,
for modern medicines seemed not to work.
A...
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Categories:
vital organ, blessing, god, miracle, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Divine Rejuvenation
...I faced the miserable plight of a failing vital organ
Thought that was the beginning of the ordained end
As modern medicines didn’t work the way they should
My mind plunged into the abyss of star...
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Categories:
vital organ, blessing, devotion, god, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Divine Intervention
...A time came when a vital organ of mine began to fail
And I thought that was the beginning of the end
The miserable mind plunged in the abyss of hopelessness
As the course of modern medicine didn...
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Categories:
vital organ, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Inside the Matters of Its Namesake
...It could never contain these things inside,
they amass so high –mountains of them
Whispers from the many who have ventured in,
now silent echoes heard till its rhythm stops
Weakness pays a v...
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Categories:
vital organ, heart, heartbreak, heartbroken, love,
Form: Free verse
Churriana
...something stirred in this place, long, long ago
presence lingering
half-hidden haven on the crowding hillside
enchanted enclave
Iberian portal still open to a time confused
dreams drif...
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Categories:
vital organ, allegory, imagery, ireland, places,
Form: Prose Poetry
Disease
...There’s a parasite
It’s sweeping across the world
Corrupting thousands
Killing thousands more
And yet-
Once this murderous disease is brought to light,
The world shuns it
Ridicules those that ...
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Categories:
vital organ, angst, corruption, grief, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Realm of Depression
...5/28/2018
What am I doing in a place like this?
So distant yet right at my fingertips…only a few know it exists.
A coat of Pacific blue chipping off into an opaque faded shade of grey—stony t...
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Categories:
vital organ, deep, depression, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
A Cold Winter Sigh
...A frost cloud hovers above me
Numbing my senses
Trying to freeze a vital organ inside you see
Sometimes it gets so cold nothing seems to matter
As im put in a deep freeze
I spit it up
And cough...
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Categories:
vital organ, depression, environment,
Form: Rhyme
A Morsel
...A MORSEL
This is a sweet bitter morsel
It is very bitter and sweet
It is sweet as honey
And bitter as bile
A morsel of boneless
But harder than skull
A morsel of honour
Likewise a morse...
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Categories:
vital organ, art,
Form: Pastoral
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