Eyes of the Rain
...In the face of an early morning drizzle,
On a fireside earth-throne,
I sit and summon thoughts.
The firewood, red with the suppressed anger of
Smouldering fire,
Crackles constantly
Amid the pay...
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Categories:
wrestles, introspection, philosophy, rain,
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken By Young Love --POTD
...I feel your unrehearsed pauses--
the rustle of a blue shirt in leaving
a tangy ache your firm lips make,
holding back cold, collected words.
This rendezvous ... a slow-fire quiver
an ...
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Categories:
wrestles, heartbroken, youth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Prisoner of the mind
...In shadows deep where chaos grips my heart, A whispered cry is heard from the darkened cells
A child once laughing beneath a sunlit sky, Now lost in the darkness of despair.
Fear crawls like a...
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Categories:
wrestles, anger, childhood, depression, lost,
Form: Free verse
Volcanic Eruption of a Soul
...At times the soul gets clenched,
in an unspeakable grief.
In a demoniac grip,
it chokes and w r i g g l e s~
The pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe.
...
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Categories:
wrestles, angst, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Long and Winding Road
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Too much pain wrestles in my dark,
forcing limps that stifle my spark.
Trekking "the long and winding road,"
I seek You for a faith reload.
Praising Your road paved with faith's seed,
I ...
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Categories:
wrestles, angst, change, emotions, freedom,
Form: Lay
The outside world sickens you, suffocates you to dissolution under your skin
...The outside world sickens you, suffocates you to dissolution under your skin,
Home seems too far, the universe too thin, reality - a heavy burden,
You implore other shells to cover your body, loose...
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Categories:
wrestles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Hair Fight
...She gathers her arms for her nightly fight
to do battle with her hair, to “get it right”
she’s been cursed with unruly, super fine hair
that won’t cooperate and flies everywhere.
Oh, to have t...
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Categories:
wrestles, funny, hair,
Form: Other
LADY X
...LADY X
The Golden Amazon Warrior
Whether spoken of in Latin
Or heard in Greek
She is Strongly Built
And tall in Height
She knows how to Speak
She knows how to Write
Wrestles with Men
Who...
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Categories:
wrestles, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
The woman with three names
...There is a quick-witted woman I know with three names; her silhouette is a mystery; she's had multiple fragile frames.
Many have tried and failed to tame her rather long mane, but honestly, they w...
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Categories:
wrestles, age, change, character, confidence,
Form: Bio
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories:
wrestles, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
In a realm where shadows dance, the world will be but a howl of pain and ecstasy
...In a realm where shadows dance, the world will be but a howl of pain and ecstasy,
Where the purest among men, in their quest for sanctuary,
Shall find themselves teetering on the brink of weariness...
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Categories:
wrestles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I BOW NOT TO THE GOD OF MONEY
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Seeking for help to God above
Here I am pleading for my soul
not for money but for real love...
oh, so longing to be made whole.
In praying to the Almighty
my heart wrestles midst e...
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Categories:
wrestles, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
PLEA FOR RESTORATION
...
Seeking now for recovery
I beseech God to heal my soul
from wasted years of misery...
oh, so longing to be made whole.
Seeking help with sincerity
my heart wrestles for earnest plig...
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Categories:
wrestles, christian, god, health, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Through a world of wax and shadows they ever wander
...Through a world of wax and shadows they ever wander,
Secret auditors of inner voices, clear as crystal,
Following them like music throbbing through the veins of a slumbering city,
Whispering hidde...
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Categories:
wrestles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Savage Garden
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sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit july morn-
captain kirk on planet ces...
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Categories:
wrestles, allusion, society,
Form: Rhyme
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