Echoes of Silent Waves
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Written May 30th for Contest by Craig Cornish
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Silence slowly dims into space,
heaves gently over words and lines
words and whispers whirl with awe
despite hi...
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Categories:
wavelength, analogy, silence,
Form: Free verse
WHERE DOES THE COUNTRY GO FROM HERE
...Where does the country go from here?
There’s still remnants of anger, dejection and sadness
Continuing to ponder this mental madness
Our identity of blackness is about to come to the brink
As we ...
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Categories:
wavelength, america, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Colors of Love
...Love comes in all colors of the spectrum,
life's reflection of the universal light.
A wavelength of emotional emergence,
in a range from dark blue to red bright.
Love travels all colors of our ...
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Categories:
wavelength, color, love,
Form: Sonnet
beach bones
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not a bone to pick on beach walks
with my lover just pleasure and leisure
strolls in the sand of time and togetherness
joined at the hips of mind body and soul
sizzling fingertips and footste...
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Categories:
wavelength, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
gangster and moll
...they were the club’s power couple
Fred was the owner of the Gaslight Lounge
where men showed they were men
and guns settled things in disturbing ways
Shelly had walked in on a Tuesday six month...
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Categories:
wavelength, in memoriam,
Form: Narrative
cheer for yourself first
...She had cheered on her friends
Helped them reach goals hither and yon
When it came to her own ideals,
she forgot what wavelength she was on.
you need to cheer for yourself too,
said her best f...
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Categories:
wavelength, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Ode: For My Mother
...Dearest mother, I wish to write to thee
On this motherly day of love and glee
To tell you how much I appreciate
The role that you’ve played in shaping my fate.
For, without your patient, loving w...
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Categories:
wavelength, appreciation, family, love, mother,
Form: Ode
astral plain
...astronomers often describe
the path of their heavenly ride
far off in the distant night sky
defining what's higher than high
luminous wavelength emitters
heavenly hosts all aglitter
lost in gra...
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Categories:
wavelength, creation, culture, encouraging, light,
Form: Rhyme
Lay my body down
...Poem inspired by the song “Lay my body down” by Glenn Hughes
I don’t think of death when I think of you,
We’ve been told many lies, none of them true.
I’ve been drawn to the shadows, it was li...
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Categories:
wavelength, deep, love, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Survival Is Not Frivolity
...Mere faith in oneself
is not enough to build strength,
confidence makes one thrive;
leave all failures on the shelf!
Fear makes a liar shrive,
he's afraid of a wavelength!
Survival is not fri...
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Categories:
wavelength, anxiety, conflict, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Omitted Rumble
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Written: March 2nd, 2024
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Wingbeats on warm whisper wavelength
wasteland, waves of wasabi writhe
with wilting, whimpering, witless wri...
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Categories:
wavelength, appreciation, beauty, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Wanting What You Cannot Have
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You are the dusk that masquerades as first light.
In the stillness of descending twilight,
your spellbinder's expectorant
opens the passageways of the feeble,
weevles like a ...
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Categories:
wavelength, art,
Form: Rhyme
Ask me an estranged one
...Ask me an estranged one
* From a Bangla song
Ask me an estranged one,
A Few of them felt along, as if,
There is nothing more, left to say.
And, unspoken verses are a long pause, as if, there...
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Categories:
wavelength, bangla,
Form: Ballad
Iphones and Insights
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At the dextrous flick of a pliant switch,
or some hue laden buoyant platform,
building sturdy grey grain bridges,
thin veil barren vacuum putative,
in a distant introverted wingspan,
yearnin...
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Categories:
wavelength, august, care, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Do You Have Answer-Shades
...The shades of “blues” might have an intense wavelength.
It literally overshadows her “colorful seasons”.
This school champion might already realize this.
Games are not that easy in this "normal ...
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Categories:
wavelength, anxiety, desire, emotions, heart,
Form: I do not know?
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