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Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High
...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S) Be always on the spotligh......

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Categories: weighed down(p), appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The trap of stuff
...it's baggage on our mind when we'd prefer to be free we at once realize we've become caretakers weighed down with the burden of responsiblity look and resist the craving to own enjoy things in ......

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Categories: weighed down(p), freedom, life,
Form: Free verse



The Man at the Bar
...He sits a shadow at the bar's dim light; a refuge from the storm that rages through his night. His eyes, like two wells—deep and dark with pain, reflect the turmoil that his heart can not contain.......

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Categories: weighed down(p), men, mental health,
Form: Other
Fate
...How am I supposed to deal with this feeling I was dealt with? Weighed down by the stone tied around my ankles, My feet drag with every step that I take. Every inch forward is heavy, ......

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Categories: weighed down(p), anxiety, deep, fate, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Scars Of My Soul
... You wrote me in scars. You’ve made me like this. You tell me I’m not the same as my old self— That I am something you pay for. Am I something to be paid for? I am torn apart by the way you......

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Categories: weighed down(p), betrayal, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Picking At Scabs
... Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi 2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt......

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Categories: weighed down(p), appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
What your love means
...My days are vibrant, for your love I own, Like twinkling stars, your touch makes my heart shine. In my heart, your love continues to grow. Rather than whine, my lips to wine incline, My heart n......

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Categories: weighed down(p), cute love, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadows
...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ By Lauren Eden Sadness moodiness and melancholy gobbled me up like termites when rude fate snatched away my ......

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Categories: weighed down(p), death, grief, life, love,
Form: Suzette Prime
Treehouse
... In the great Old Grove forests Perry, Sayva, Diamond, and Jack Went out and built this tree house A fine little tree house It had a ladder, it had a few windows It had a little garde......

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Categories: weighed down(p), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New year declaration
...We were on our own Minding our business Weighed down by crushing unemployment Thoroughly disillusioned by the art of promise and fail We were disoriented by the perennial lie Of being lea......

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Categories: weighed down(p), anger, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Vigil for the Light
...My life depends on utter defeat to this implacable foe. Yet, my anguish contends to strike him a fatal blow. He was born from my dream, to stand vigil for the light. Now in confrontation, I am in ......

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Categories: weighed down(p), atheist, conflict, creation, husband,
Form: Rhyme
A Star adrift
...A Star Adrift In the quiet of a shadowed room, A man sat still, wrapped in gloom. His hands were clenched, his shoulders low, A heart weighed down by life’s cruel blows. Fear lived in him, a......

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Categories: weighed down(p), abuse, adventure, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
...What can we do with hearts weighed down by grief? Let’s not spread our anger, seeking no relief. After all, we leave this world in the end, We leave, turning to dust, where all paths bend. I po......

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Categories: weighed down(p), anger, life, poems, song,
Form: Classicism
Our Civilization Collapsed
...A new day Without the sonorous Songs of songbirds And the bustle Of busy humans and animals. The sun struggled to rise, Struggled to shine, Weighed down By the dark couds of July. The......

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Categories: weighed down(p), computer, creation,
Form: Free verse
Grief, Loss, Who Do I Trust
... My grief is a tide that rises and falls without warning, sweeping away the familiar shores of my being. I write to you not as a poet but as a fellow bearer of sorrow, for the shining sun has dim......

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Categories: weighed down(p), 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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