Windows
...I sit in stillness
framed by glass
the world outside dances
sunlight spills like golden honey.
yet within these walls I stay.
regret coils.....
around me tight as a noose
lurking in...
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Categories:
waveless, angst, fear, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But Here
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Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical whispers of wind
are my wondrous wicket
restive ...
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Categories:
waveless, analogy, character, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Blackbird of Iran
...The blackbird wants to sing a song.
What song?
A song of freedom
But its fragile beak is tied.
The blackbird lives on the Island.
Where the Aubrey's tongue
Is tonged with coal.
And black v...
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Categories:
waveless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
The Span
...a tempest rages
in a ringing shell
sleep slopes down
into waveless depths
The mind has miles
leagues foreshadowing
the whole span of a moment
in full
A gulls gullet opens -
it speaks o...
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Categories:
waveless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ocean of Yesterday's Dreams
...I stand with you upon the shore
of dreams that echo,
but are no more.
A yesterday where dreams once
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Categories:
waveless, adventure, age, allegory, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The View From Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Up
...The pilot formally announced
the desired cruising height was reached.
At three hundred and forty knots
the plane flew like a cruise missile.
As I peered out of my window
above cotton cumulus ...
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Categories:
waveless, allusion, discrimination, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
An Individual of Incredible Talent
...An individual of incredible talent
played his violin with a joy so opulent;
he achieved greatness on his own
and his gladness was proudly shown!
The maple violin was given to him as a gift from...
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Categories:
waveless, age, appreciation, beauty, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Mislaid Indented Help
...Helplessness seeks help in despondency
When resources slip out of porous hands
A tacit realization of innate inadequacy
Devours the dregs of impaired self-esteem.
The feeling sinks in the pool ...
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Categories:
waveless, change, word play,
Form: Free verse
A Day That Ends In Night
...We Look For Holy Moments,
And In Looking, Overlook
Moments Blessed And
Filled With Things
From Mountains We Once Shook.
Small Events Unfolding,
Each One Smaller, Briefer Still.
As Cav...
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Categories:
waveless, father, father son, for
Form: Rhyme
An Array of Vast Universes
...Everybody says that forgetting
the one we loved is unfair, cruel, and silly;
don't attempt to bury recollections under rocks,
and instead of burning them completely,
express bitterness for a sad...
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Categories:
waveless, absence, appreciation, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Fields of Vision
...Amid sand dunes look around for faces
on roads and streets, through spectacles
eyes dwell on the sky, trees, and birds
albino clouds set sail as if to merge
the fecundity of green leaves, blink e...
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Categories:
waveless, absence, beach, birth, boat,
Form: Sonnet
I Wonder What the Roses Dream
...The garden, it is fast asleep,
Or so it would appear—
I wonder what the Roses dream,
Of dewdrops cool, and clear?
So peacefully they are folded
For their midnight reverie—
Still as a day with...
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Categories:
waveless, daffodils, garden, imagination, rose,
Form: Quatrain
Timelapse
...A thousand sighs whisper
Across the starry night.
An echo unreachable
Like a snowflake lost from sight.
Awakens a longing, that internal beat,
an ancient music tuned, to the
shimmering of the ...
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Categories:
waveless, deep, destiny, emotions, love,
Form: Blank verse
Sweat
...Summer sand soft and sultry,
Salty sweat, sweet and wet.
Wistless wind, waveless water,
Bathers baking, basking burning
Seagull scavenger of shiny sea
Searching, scurrying squabling over scraps....
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Categories:
waveless, beach, beauty,
Form: Alliteration
Single Rose For Juniper May
..."Call me June."
Her voice is like fragile glass
Hand outstretched, fiery smile
Ivory skin smoother than a waveless sea
Her infinite charm is all I could see.
"June May,"
I laughed, she shift...
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Categories:
waveless, betrayal, desire, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Free verse
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