More I try, more I cry
...In just a day,
I lost my father, my mum,
and my only two siblings,
I became the only member of my family:
my own father,
my own mother,
my own siblings.
I was left to s~w~i~m the oc...
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Categories:
widest, depression, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Fair in My Heart-Ode to My Grandparents
...
I was just a girl of six or seven,
Stubborn, wild, yet touched by heaven.
Mornings woke with fairs in bloom,
Joy would dance in every room.
Only from Nani’s hands I’d eat,
Her ...
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Categories:
widest, blessing, candy, caregiving, childhood,
Form: Lyric
Consultation
...I have asked before, though you may not know,
About how to deal with the difficulties you strain me with.
My own adventure for my true soul has begun,
And so I must make all a witness,
Or the p...
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Categories:
widest, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
A Writer's Malaise
...A writer's challenge
Is like any artist's…
A many sided coin flipped.
Feel, see, hear, dream
Sweats tasted, presenting pasts
Saw, felt, heard, and dreamt
Bringing future in to bear.
N...
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Categories:
widest, adventure, career, cat, life,
Form: Free verse
Tint Of Orange
...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories:
widest, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism
Gamba Gamba
...Lucious , the sources ae not clear:
yet with all understanding
of those things
loved, I must mention a
togetherness bound for marriage
might only honey be sweeter!
The "Tale of Love and Being...
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Categories:
widest, culture, dance, food, music,
Form: Bio
On the day of daughters
...If in love to wife desire’s rife,
And to son there seems ambition,
To daughters, tranquil run waters.
If she may outgrow father’s lap,
She always stays within heart’s map,
Distance may grow, ...
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Categories:
widest, daughter,
Form: Other
Life's Wheel Stops Spinning
...
Verse I
I have longed for someone
to be my trusted friend,
being honest and so devoted
is my only priority indeed;
a true promise won't be gone!
Chorus
Life's wheel stops spinning
...
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Categories:
widest, anxiety, conflict, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Ceaseless Constellation
...sometimes I sing
antique anthems,
of the nights
I was confined
within a bottle
of diamond tears,
wept woefully
from the widest sky
that held kaleidoscopic stars~
amidst festooned f...
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Categories:
widest, deep,
Form: Free verse
While I Journey
...Across the daily bridge I stoop,
to gaze upon the world,
always with the option overhead,
two faces of the same mint,
or just as likely liquid mirror,
in the very widest sense,
but such ad hoc...
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Categories:
widest, beautiful, celebration, city, deep,
Form: Free verse
Tranmutation
...Written 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
Transmutation
Whether transmutation of energy
Is a...
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Categories:
widest, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Swoosh
...stealth
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H
death
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H
graves
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H
living
makes a sound
goes like t...
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Categories:
widest, confusion, death, emotions, fear,
Form: Verse
Not Speaking of Not Sex
...Said flowing River
to glowing Mountain
What warms deepest
Thou cannot see
from sacred heights
of eternity
Robustly responds
growing Mountain Here
to deeply embedded River Now
What spil...
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Categories:
widest, earth, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Greater Is He That Is In Me Collections
...Greater is He that is in me than he that is the world
My Lord Jesus Christ is greater in me than he that
Is our world. O Greater is the Holy Spirit residing
Inside of me than the evil spirits tha...
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Categories:
widest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Great Is Thy Faithfulness Lord Unto Me Collections
...O Great is Thy Faithfulness O LORD GOD my heavenly Father,
There is none other in the heavens likened unto to Thee, all I
Have ever needed Thy Holy hands have truly provided for
Great is Thy Faith...
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Categories:
widest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
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