Alien Visitors
...At midnight, beneath the silent crown of Mount Kailash,
I wandered alone, my eyes fixed on the vast tapestry of stars.
Then, without warning, a river of light fell from the heavens—
a radiant stre...
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Categories:
warning(a), angel, creation, dark, farm,
Form: Free verse
Misuses of Charismatic Privilege: The Violent Pressure of Personality
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after Privilege of Being by Robert Haas
A tipping point of too many
are talking harshly. Down below,
demon-dead in the unstirred inferno
and perdition of animal thirsting
are coil...
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Categories:
warning(a), character, community, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Woman by the Sea
...The first time I met the ocean,
it roared in welcome,
a vast and restless beast—
powerful, endless, untamed.
Yet the sand held it still,
defiant, unbowed, unbroken.
Life and death, locked in a ...
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Categories:
warning(a), addiction, beach, beautiful, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
The Woman by the Sea
...The first time I met the ocean,
it roared in welcome,
a vast and restless beast—
powerful, endless, untamed.
Yet the sand held it still,
defiant, unbowed, unbroken.
Life and death, locked in a ...
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Categories:
warning(a), addiction, beach, beautiful, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Thinking about Fair Warning
...Is there a word for when you love something because it is horrible
and it's horrible because it's true,
and specifically, because it's you?
That's why my chosen album cover
adorns, probably, a ...
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Categories:
warning(a), abuse, art, bullying, loneliness,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Black Widow
...she moves in whispers,
a shadow draped in midnight silk,
trailing poison kisses in the dark--
a promise, a warning, a lullaby of death.
her fingers weave unseen threads,
spun from sugared lies...
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Categories:
warning(a), dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Collapse
...It was 2039, a nation laid low,
A once-proud land, now shrouded in woe.
We stood on the brink, victorious near,
But the invaders' shadow cast our darkest year.
It began in '21, a fateful day...
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Categories:
warning(a), 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Insufficient Funds
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Insufficient Funds
By: Miracle Man
11/1/2024
At birth God opens, a new life, bank account,
and we don’t know what is placed in reserve.
Each day then becomes a check that we write,
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Categories:
warning(a), age, birth, death, life,
Form: Quatrain
WHY RUSH AT THE STOP SIGN?
...In a bright yellow, the big bus stands still,
Its lights flash a warning, a sign of care.
Giggles and waves from tiny hands inside,
A moment to pause, where safety’s embraced.
Red lights flash,...
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Categories:
warning(a), car, change, color, community,
Form: Didactic
We Go 2 War by Glenn Hughes: Revised
...My Interpretation: Glenn Hughes Lyric:
In the space of a short span Mother can you see
the exactitudes that human I've been tryin' to see ...
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Categories:
warning(a), war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Take a Look Onto the Sky
...Take A Look Onto The Sky,
It's Your Birthday's Reason Why!
God Set The Sky Ablaze,
A Rainbow He Had Made, ... Today!
And The Time Was Early ...
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Categories:
warning(a), appreciation,
Form: Ballad
The Dead Weight of a Tomb
...Kicked away, the dead weight of a tomb.
Agape, bug-eyes; and gullet, of guards.
Dawn, with its playful bouquet, first in.
Nature resounds as power walks out.
Women and men, still mourning th...
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Categories:
warning(a), christian,
Form: Couplet
Another Deadly Sin
...Jealousy in senior citizens
Is an ugly thing
It’s childish, it’s petty,
It has a negative ring
For elderly women, make no mistake
In certain surroundings
There’s quite an outbreak
And don’t th...
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Categories:
warning(a), age, character, image, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Tinderbox
...Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world ...
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Categories:
warning(a), anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Verse
A Warning
...The warning
The sparrows are flying frantically about something
is going on in their world
should I take it as a warning a tsunami is on its way
to the coast or an earthquake.
Animals sense ...
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Categories:
warning(a), absence, abuse, bird, earth
Form: Blank verse
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