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Premium MemberAurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back

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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...
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Categories: writhed, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse

August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories: writhed, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWays Of Providence

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A tumultuous time came unushered in my beleaguered life
that writhed in the crushing clutch of destructive agony. 
My heart broke, bled with desperation in pining pain, 
found no arms stretche...
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Categories: writhed, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPetals Of Peace

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Tumultuous time came unheralded
in my life that wandered in the wasteland.
When in the crushing clasp of suffering
my heart broke and writhed in pain,
I searched for the comfort of calm arms,...
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Categories: writhed, peace, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Toxic Beauty

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 ART!

He painted my death,
With such dedication I've never seen before.
Every stroke of his brush, on that paper, marking out each curve, twist, and turn my body made
As I writhed in pain.

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Categories: writhed, art, betrayal, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse



Scoff Syrup

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I scoffed at hearts that writhed with pain,
that fell from broken promises,
for I had naught to do with Love,
it's folly or its gain,

but now I find that not to love
is ...
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Categories: writhed, age, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Choose to Dwell in the Clouds

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I don’t think I have ever written another poem of such emotional intensity! I was bedridden for almost four months. It was at such a desperate moment that I thought of scribbling down my feelings o...
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Categories: writhed, angst, depression, health, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Mother River

...My mother is a river. 
Not a calm, deep river, lush with fish and plants, flowing by gently and powerfully...but 
a thick, white rapids, furiously polishing the jagged rocks into marbles. 
There i...
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Categories: writhed, mother, river,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAllah's Love

...Allah's Love

In realms where stars ignite with fire,
Where silence throbs with hidden desire,
There dwelt Allah, unbound and free,
A god of flame, of lust’s decree.

The dusk caressed his mol...
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Categories: writhed, allah,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membera tempest for the almanac

...The evening stars were gone, replaced
by a spreading, ominous purple bruise of cloud.
When the wind rose, in sudden violent
crisscrossing gusts, everything went into motion.

White cabanas shook...
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Categories: writhed, holiday, humor, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse

Bright Light, Dim Light? DARK!

...In the midst of the raging waves,
they watched her gulp the callous cunning darts.
Her crumbly heart cruelly impaled; the fate that enslaves.
So fondly she’d mask the marks.
Her soul would ache a...
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Categories: writhed, betrayal, death, death of
Form: Elegy

Michael Joseph Jackson

...Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of t...
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Categories: writhed, abuse, addiction, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWounded Sigh

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The sun has long receded from the sky,
Pallid gloom invades the wintry air,
Morbid silence hangs over him,
Memory sleeps like hibernating toads. 

Trees stand bare with no leaves t...
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Categories: writhed, angst, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Connection

...connection 
A longing, my dear stranger

expression 

Put it all back together 
I know it fits
We fit

Spiral dynamics
The mountain and
Its wet reflection
Reflected back to heaven
Upward...
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Categories: writhed, love, myth, mythology, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn The Grass

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The night hung still 
     beneath the clouded moon,
          and from our deck, 
   we watched the hazy glow.
The crickets softly chirped 
     their mating croon
          as shadows sprea...
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Categories: writhed, adventure, memory, mystery, night,
Form: Rhyme

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