The Start of a New Poem
...It is a night creamed by melting darkness.
Fireflies are obsessed with secrecy tonight
And dim their lights cautiously, frugally.
Crickets and cicadas crepitate with muted
Feelings, sallying wret...
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Categories:
wilful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The fear of nothing changing
...The rush of emotion stilled
The air once consumed by an undiluted energy
Now eerily quiet
Something lingers in the air
Justice?
No something louder but hidden
A violence so silent
It could...
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Categories:
wilful, change, discrimination, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Look Back Look Back At Me
...He said ' look back at me'
but she didn't want to see
so the conflict carried on
and events, spiraled uncontrolled, from day one
she had to move from home she loved
for the sake of parents, ...
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Categories:
wilful, film, husband, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
She Opened a Gate
... Sponsor : Constance Le France
submitted : 6/7/25
Placed : Third
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lovingly she opened a tungsten gate to his Heart quantum lasers sharp, her ordained healing art
pene...
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Categories:
wilful, age, change, dark, extended
Form: Couplet
At the Graves Gate
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"A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Categories:
wilful, fate, grave, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
The World is Bleeding
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The World is Bleeding
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Categories:
wilful, death, feelings, judgement, violence,
Form: Rhyme
If Fantasy Were Reality
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If Fantasy Were Reality
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Categories:
wilful, dream, fantasy, imagination, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Tossed on the Wide Seas
...“Life is like a ship tossed on the high sea
To journey amidst sunshine and wild waves.” - By author.
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Categories:
wilful, boat, inspirational, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Ironies Within Ironies
...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research...
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Categories:
wilful, education, irony,
Form: Haibun
Patience Allied with Perseverance
...“With patience and perseverance
We can win the hardiest race.”- By author
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Patience and Perseve...
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Categories:
wilful, endurance, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Deprived of Your Love
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Deprived of Your Love
Deprived of Your love since the dawn of time
O Lord, I wander in wild w...
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Categories:
wilful, god, life, son, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Safe Shores
...A languorous morning
Nestled in between warm duvets, a goose feathered pillow or two…a luxury
A striped kitten, a beautiful shade of grey, on a windowsill grey too; purring, gentle breaths, aut...
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Categories:
wilful, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
A Baby Daffodil
...A little baby dear Daffodil
Teasing me with her fiddle
Robbing my heart, in my mind
Dancing free, an angel find!
Beneath the way, I belittled shackles
Closing near her, fingers crackles
Alas!...
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Categories:
wilful, flower, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Touch My Life
...Glenn Hughes Poetry Contest - Robert James Liguori
TOUCH MY LIFE: Glenn Hughes: TRAPEZE - MEDUSA (1970)
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I've been waiting
For so long
Fo...
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Categories:
wilful, music, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Patience and Perseverance
...In the voyage of life when we set sail
Let patience allied with perseverance
Be the bacon light for us to avail
In the warm summer of exuberance
As in the wild, wobbling winter of gloom
When wil...
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Categories:
wilful, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
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