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Like Fire!Many doors to flow our Energy left to the feelings in life to the core it is to enter another door that opens to some doors shut to some doors forever the clash with the...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, body, character,
Form: Free verse
Meat is pleasingMy head was in a daze, I'd been down here for days.
All in the name of love, you'd scream, so I let it happen to me.
My skin is like fondant, you'd peel it...
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Categories:
anxiety, art, body, dark,
Form: Rhyme
NonViolent MusiciansWhen he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen
Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment
when he aims
to restore cultures
and climates of peace
through win/win reassessment
Which may be why
music feels easier to sing
resonantly
when compassionate audiences
dance...
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Categories:
anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
SILENT AMIDSTTITLE: SILENT AMIDST
Can anyone really be SILENT?
Amidst the CHAOS of life...
That's a disparity;
Answered by a voice at a corner in my head
While I ponder and wonder
Over all life's Experiences,
Yes whispered Softly...
By another in a...
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Categories:
allegory, body, corruption, deep,
Form: Ballad
Clean slate
Categories:
body,
Form: Senryu
I live in a world of brutal ice and coldI live in a world of brutal ice and cold
Despite the temperature being five below...
these fingered handy limbs
awash with profuse sweat
dripping palms analogous
to a bloody busted gushing water main.
Mein kampf analogous
to a self made prisoner
who...
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Categories:
body, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Whats Your LessonWe leave our country in search of a new life but we end up paying a painful sacrifice, I can live with it, if it has future benefit, but I don’t intend to go through...
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Categories:
boat, body, care, child,
Form: Narrative
On Seeing a Reflection of Myself in the Mirror:
Am I still blue?
Or gray or warm belly red?
On the day when the sun set the hottest
And loving fish were soaring from riversides
To set sail over the violent sky again -
Am I still sore of...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, blue, body,
Form: Free verse
Earthly beliefsFollowing of earthly believes leads to the corruption of the mind, body and spirit...
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Categories:
body,
Form: Monoku
The touch of anotherThey said it was me
She obviously asked for it
Admit you lied they said
Dread filled me from the inside
Tried as I might
Despite my efforts
Fluorescent Light fades to black
Sank right back to that moment...
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Categories:
body, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
VenusYour darted arrow of Venus impales
Our demise persists through our veins
The echo in my heart is hopeless
What is love when death skims the surface?...
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Categories:
allusion, body, cry, dark,
Form: Quatrain
One out of fiveHe was 6 foot 3.
I was 5 foot 5.
My only thoughts at that moment were staying alive..
Caught in the tenacles of his grip, helpless as I witnessed
my top rip..
My bra lifted up as mammoth...
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Categories:
body, self,
Form: Rhyme
LIFTING PASTORPastor with spiritual might
Doesn’t take God’s word light
Hardcore weights support from a gym
Wants to keep in shape
Not looking like an Ape
Preaching conditional to fulfill
Holy Spirit power at will
Spiritual Temple
That simple
Determined and encouraged
Feeding his nourishment Soul
The...
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Categories:
bible, blessing, body, care,
Form: Rhyme
Shape Shifting SoulYou might say that I'm just an atom,
But the universe, I extoll.
I view everything in creation
As one big shape shifting soul.
Even individual beings' bodies
Are really something more.
Microbial cells in flesh and bones
Outnumber human cells galore.
A body's...
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Categories:
body, death, history, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Solitude In The SeaMy heart yearns for something that is bigger than me and my spirit keeps searching for it, it is not buried in the sand by the sea but it is somewhere beyond hills waiting...
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Categories:
body, absence, animal, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Body Poems
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