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Dactyls and ElephantsDactyls are metrical
Feet that are named after
Fingers with three little
Parts like the knuckles that
Lie in a pattern of
Stress like these sentences.
'Jealously murmuring
Elephants quietly
Sob in their handkerchiefs.'
Feet that are fingers
How odd!
...
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Categories:
words,
Form: Double Dactyl
The Weight We Leave BehindWhen you find me gone, the light dulled in my eyes,
a shell emptied by time and tireless want,
sit by my side and tell me—
“It’s a weight I couldn’t bear to lose.”
For in silence, we’ve parted...
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Categories:
words, 9th grade,
Form: Elegy
Beyond WordsThe language of love requires no translation,
The language of trust needs no explanation,
The language of honesty needs no interpretation,
The language of wisdom requires no noise,
The language of kindness requires no words....
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Categories:
language, love, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse
Words are CRAZYWords are CRAZY
They can mean
ANYTHING!
But mostly:
Not
Quite
Right.
***
Horrifying.
-Gray Squirrel
10-28-2024...
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Categories:
words, life,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of last words
Last things you whispered, a promise under stars,
“You're the only one I’ll love, no one else from afar.”
Silly me, I believed, wrapped in dreams made of gold,
Yet soon you found another, leaving my heart cold.
Was...
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Categories:
words, betrayal, emotions, farewell,
Form: Free verse
A Few Blind Words
If I could,
I would borrow the eye of God,
I would then spin it between my fingers
until the light at the center of all things
would twinkle so bright
that I would have to turn off
my own light...
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Categories:
words, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Weight of Words SpokenSome words root deep, silent and enduring,
like water rounding edges over time.
Others touch lightly, brief as breath,
gone before they settle into memory.
To speak is to feel something real in your hand,
to weigh its edges, its...
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Categories:
words, 9th grade,
Form: Lyric
Reported convergence of science and spiritThere is a reported
Convergence of
Science and spirit
Seen as evidence
Of a coming
Realization of what
For the millennia
Has evaded so much
Searching..a goal
On the horizon with
A promise finally
Of felt success..
Such may seem a story
Of futility writ...
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Categories:
appreciation, science, time, words,
Form: Light Verse
Institutions and IdolatryInstitutions
Attempt to define
What is not definable
So that adherents
Might own a set
Of concepts..
Which when believed
May be idolatrous to
That which can't be
Defined......
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Categories:
community, inspiration, words,
Form: Light Verse
A Summary of A FallI suppose I did stretch it out fine - gossamer lines
running from my mouth out of me in dribs n drabs
in that sort of slow motion
...
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Categories:
words, anxiety, emotions, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Non-duality in a nutshellNot a zebra
Yet,
Appears as a zebra..
That's it!
Non-duality in a
Nutshell......
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Categories:
animal, humorous, words,
Form: Light Verse
This one never mineMade alot of mistakes in a life,
felt days of regret asking heaven why
But that day you came in
like a gulfstream hurricane
thankfully wasn't one I let by.
Found myself out of the...
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Categories:
words, 12th grade, life, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Ink of the HeartIn the hollow of quiet, I cradle my voice,
words not yet spoken, only savored,
like salt clinging from a distant sea.
What can be shared, if not marrow deep,
roots that split and entwine—
truths no heartbeat dares reveal.
So...
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Categories:
words, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
When Words Take FlightThey say a thought, once loosed,
flares like a wild ember—small but defiant,
escaping the quiet cage of the mind,
drifting past reason’s steady pull.
Words rush forward, spilling from a hidden well,
lending courage to voices
and daring tongues to...
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Categories:
words, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
SPACE BETWEEN STARSSPACE BETWEEN STARS
The space between stars is not empty
It is just like the space between words
Full, yet seemingly hidden from view
Although sometimes never recognised
For the depth of meaning lurking here
Offering more questions than answers
But silently,...
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Categories:
space, stars, words,
Form: Free verse
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