Movement without motion
...Inspired by Bob Dylan's song
"Abandoned Love"
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Your fire burns deep in my ocean,
But where is the ash of its burn?
It's a movement without motion—
A facemask fixe...
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Categories:
wean, anger, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
When comfort comes at cost
...Time was money was when a mindful mate
That gave me time enough to feel its feel--
The touch of grain and texture of its state,
How one hesitates ere part with the bill--
Crisper the notes harder...
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Categories:
wean, change, money,
Form: Sonnet
WOOLLY MAMMOTH SAGED
...[ For Contest : Ghost of Frankenstein
Sponsor : Tom Woody
submitted: 9/5/25 ]
Many starry nights I lay
in my wooden cabin next to your
sanctuary waiting for whisperings
fr...
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Categories:
wean, africa, age, betrayal, change,
Form: Narrative
23-4-2025
...I take heed of what I’m too scared to admit,
Keep stepping on,
Sometimes you just take the lead and head on into the darkest abyss.
Focus hard on what it is that you miss,
Make time for yours...
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Categories:
wean, analogy, anxiety, christian,
Form: Free verse
The Other Guy
...Tears form in my eyes,
It's no surprise.
I can't understand why,
I don't really want to die.
I know its unhealthy,
But I Loved getting high.
It's hard to stop this guy,
The harde...
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Categories:
wean, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
AFRICA'S SACRED ARK
...Soon,
The sacred black ashes and dark disfigured, but resilient bones of our enslaved, enraged and estranged ancestors,
Will awake from their centuries of dazed, polluted and denigrated slumber, t...
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Categories:
wean, africa, corruption, humanity, independence
Form: Free verse
No way out
...There once was a dame in New York
Who plugged her hole with a cork
Some thought her insane
For not wanting a wean
But she still got one from a stork...
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Categories:
wean, humor,
Form: Limerick
Evil Has a Childhood
...toss anger, he said
into the bin of waste
waste not mankind’s love
with abuse and bite
the bullet skies
high the eagle flies
why not the steeple
less with feathers flocked
why not the pews on...
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Categories:
wean, anger, hate,
Form: Free verse
The inconvenient truth
...“The rabbit hole of lust, is subtle and deep ~
Be watchful if we’d take a consciousness leap”
~ quote by poet
As we pick up our pen and begin to write,
conceding this too is ...
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Categories:
wean, introspection, muse, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
It isn't though it is
...Nothing to see so little to hear
speak and be silenced.
Smells peculiar...
Are my thoughts even mine?
Everything is glorious in the shadows of night
Bright lights that dim truth all sparkle and ...
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Categories:
wean, political, social, world,
Form: Free verse
The Age Of Man
...The Age of Man
We carried on
The age of man
Till moon of tin bore
An electric sun
And all machines
Shone bright and clean
Keeping silent
But wanting more
Till the purpose mind
Did lo...
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Categories:
wean, earth, future, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
is our muse a fetter
...addicted to a scent
we once granted consent
enmeshed us in confines of time
deadening sentience to our inner chime
self-blocking the influx of God’s grace
owing to mundane goals we chase...
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Categories:
wean, introspection, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Undone
...Mistakenly believing we’re body-mind,
bewildered by fear and enslaved by desire,
we fail to see head and heart are not aligned
with love, so the objects we seek to acquire,
fixates attention, gri...
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Categories:
wean, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Habit
...if there arises an urge
to follow a preset routine
it signals a stuporous stance
of habit patterns we need to wean...
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Categories:
wean, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Flowing Souls Waters Views-
...flows so the waters
wean vast the moving currents
bathe motions waters
under the clouds of
pearls puffy solidified
waters solid white;
bathe motions waters
currents wean moving...
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Categories:
wean, analogy, appreciation, sea, water,
Form: Haiku
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