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When Words BurnYour lies are strong like coffee grounds, but I can't grind them up small enough to make them go down smooth
Your presence is becoming more like unexpected coffee stains
Unsightly, unwanted, unbearable, unstable
The heat burns...
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Categories:
words, conflict, feelings, hurt, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The sands of timeThe sands of time
Sand castles
Sand is the word
Inexplicable
To seemingly mold
Itself into time
We are Sand......
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Categories:
art, words,
Form: Light Verse
Tongue TiedIt must be terrible…
to be tied up in knots,
what if it clots...
how could one complain?
Such a terrible shame,
I can't help you loosen it...
not even a little bit,
maybe, just cut the cord?
and let that...
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Categories:
words, extended metaphor, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
S u Rr E a l i T y no B
Categories:
word play, words, writing,
Form: Imagism
S u Rr E a l i T y no A
Categories:
word play, words,
Form: Imagism
WordsWords are shoelaces
string them right
and they allow you to move
else they can trip you up.
Credit to: Rajendra Phdhi.
I rewrite it in Serynu:
Words are shoelaces
stringing them right so to move
else can trip you...
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Categories:
words,
Form: Senryu
We All Make Poetry Soup
Poetry Soup is fun to make,
just follow this easy recipe.
First take a huge pot,
the internet.
Next add a cup of creativity,
with a cup of imagination.
Add four quarts of red ink,
liquid will be needed.
Stir well,
then start to...
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Categories:
words, giggle, poems, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
PlaceholdersWords
Seem made to
Describe..
A word to
Describe indescribable
Cannot be found
So any word
Might provide a
Placeholder
For no place......
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Categories:
beauty, sleep, words,
Form: Light Verse
Puppy Love
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge
There lived no better heart to know.
His love was like a light,
Coloring lives in visions of gold,
Softest visions, alive, so bold,
Beautiful...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, dog, words,
Form: Ballad
Filling Up Spaces With WordsDoes anyone have the conception
that I'm disconnected from reality,
so fearful to face more hardships?
All I do is filling up spaces with words,
they fit perfectly to make me feel easy:
it's awful to be judged with...
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Categories:
words, allusion, bullying, change, culture,
Form: Lyric
Two Poets Meet Collaboration
What do you see when you see trees?
My eyes travel each trunk and branch.
With feathered leaves in blowing breeze
till the chipper comes with a cranch!
Your details shine with luminescence -
I eschew detail for the...
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Categories:
words, feelings, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The IndescribableThe indescribable
Appears as
Describable
Rendering the
Describable
As indescribable......
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Categories:
i am, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
BLANKETY-BLANK VERSEAlas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse
To stab the darkness with an ill-used...
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Categories:
humor, irony, muse, words,
Form: Verse
A Poet's Crush Collaboration
But by grace do I shadow your form
from each darkened night to bright-lit morn.
You're silvery-white in my life's storm
hosting shivery thoughts yet unborn.
Would that my pen divine such meaning,
enflame fiery feelings unbidden
that stun me dumb...
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Categories:
words, crush, dedication, desire, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of WordsOur words carry enormous weight,
more than we ever think,
when spoken out will leave a mark not just a trace of ink.
Words empower people,
to some maybe a muse,
but a mighty power...
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Categories:
words, beauty, change, depression, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Words Poems
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