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In Love's EmbraceIn love's embrace, I find my soul deep,
Where shadows dance, and secrets softly keep.
To rescue us, my heart shall not rest.
Even if I had to go through test
For in your eyes, I see the spark...
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Categories:
11th grade, break up,
Form: Rhyme
SaboteurIf you're not a well-paid saboteur
You should look into the job
List me as a reference on your resume
And on the day I get the call
I'll tell them all about your
Inability to accept responsibility
And anti-social personality...
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Categories:
break up, anger, betrayal, boyfriend, break
Form: Rhyme
Something to SurviveI couldn't see it
Blame the way the viscid blackness
Of your soul
Exterminates the sunlight
Couldn't feel it
Sinking in your tar like sand
And blowing bubbles
Like a boiling child
Not loved enough to understand
That living
Isn't the same as having...
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Categories:
betrayal, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse
NIGHT WINDDistressful notes of pain
Strained with tears of plight
Echo through the silent night
Filling the empty spaces in my heart.
Like a tribute song at a funeral
The notes constantly rise and fall.
Like spaces in...
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Categories:
break up, 12th grade, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
I Can Lie TooYou're so incredible, the most amazing man
I'm taken to the heights of pleasure with the touch of your hand
There will never be another man who compares
Your eyes, your smile... no one as perfect anywhere
I will...
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Categories:
black love, break up,
Form: Burlesque
The Cycle of Miserykilled it
it is dead
its over
just stop it now
it is the very end
its enough
over
i said...over!
"please...."
and it is back.
all that, undoing gone down the drain
bye...
"I'm sorry..."
hi, lets start again?
" it's okay "
what's next?...
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Categories:
break up, anxiety, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Artireal InsomicycleArterial Insomnicycle
Losing sleep over losing someone is sleep never re-found,
For the years we spend when Nature’s sweet restorer refuses,
Fault found not in Medicine, for hospitals only treat broken hearts,
Cures are found with different compounds of...
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Categories:
appreciation, break up, courage,
Form: Free verse
WingsAs I laid there looking up at the stars,
I felt sad and all alone.
The sting of old scars
made me realize that you were already gone.
No matter what I said, I was to blame,
yelling at me...
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Categories:
break up, change, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Trying to forget uMy life, empty
My heart, pained
Popping pills down my throat
heart racing, blood boiling
as I indulge myself in carnal desires
Drown another glass
seeking thrills on the
fine line that separates life and death,
hoping to forget u
Another whiff(overdose)
only to stay...
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Categories:
break up, first love,
Form: Free verse
they shoot horses tooThey shoot horses too
The US president tells Israel not to enter Gaza
Israel enters anyway, which tells us the might
of the Jewish lobby trumps everything, leaving
the US, looking weak
The students, who are not, yet, corrupted
protest against Israel, arrested and...
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Categories:
anti bullying, break up,
Form: Blank verse
You Wanted A GalaxyYou wanted me to give you a galaxy
But I could only reach for the stars
You wanted my everything
But I only wanted your arms...
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Categories:
break up, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKENNOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN
With your head, roll out drums,
Mighty trumpets in their stead,
And like Eagles soar higher in the sky,
The skies of your mind,
Do not crumble on vain things,
And do not hijack your...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
Heart of StealHeart of Steal
With a heart as strong as steel, heart always searching the cosmos for love? The man of steel stands tall and proud, his eyes locked on the horizon, forever reaching for the stars...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
odic fail
hope …
dismay
heaven, hell
gods, mortality … love
all live within us
we create our own realities
and we dwell there …
oh, we are taught the tools for life -
the skills we use to SHAPE that actuality,
but we construct it...
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Categories:
analogy, break up, creation,
Form: Free verse
our curse - a love poemi see the way you look at him,
holding his hand,
kissing him,
and i see you’ve been cursed.
cursed to love a man you never truly loved,
cursed to lose the girl who gave you butterflies.
if you were...
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Categories:
break up, gender, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
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