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name callingName-calling
We who live in the west
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation will end
and when the dust settles, a new
the state will...
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Categories:
age, birthday, butterfly, creation,
Form: Blank 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
In Your World
In a world of shadows,
You gleam, a diamond divine,
With eyes that twinkle,
your essence, so fine.
Your radiance outshines
The darkest of nights,
In your presence, love ignites.
Your smile is like a beacon,
lighting up the gloomy skies,
In your arms,...
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Categories:
beautiful, best friend, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
looking for wordsLooking for words.
Pink and blue billows on the poetic sky drip of eager words
Alas, towards dawn, a westerly wind blew cleared the sky
In the morning blank screen lit up when the sun shone.
But the sun...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Writer BlockThe Tortured Poets Department has a writer's division that has to approve every poem before it goes out
And my mind is tired of being held hostage
A loose-leaf definition of writer's block was once defined by...
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Categories:
beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Blank verse
Testing individuallyMaybe we are not sure of god,
but what I believe in,
is that life is a test.
Which we all need to overcome and face in situations, what we do not expected.
It leaves us sometimes...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Blank verse
who stole the rainbowWho stole the rainbow?
After the drizzle, a small rainbow appeared
that's right
Let it be clear, the professor said, not a hegemonic
rainbow strutting about the sky, demanding to be
admired for its bright colors
The modest rainbow was telling...
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Categories:
art, blessing, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
rainbow allianceRainbow alliance
On a barbed wire fence between Chile and Argentine
hangs thousands of plastic bags, some of the bags from top shops
London, New York, Paris, and Bonn.
Here are Japanese, Swedish bags, Arabic bags, and...
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Categories:
7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Blank verse
an actor i knewAn actor I knew
I saw him sitting alone in the dining room
of a small hotel, drinking brandy with coke
his handsome face was bloated, and he was
deep in his cups
I told him of the Humblebee story...
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Categories:
anxiety, color, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Make my vision disappear,,Just don't look, focus on something else", my therapist said.
I stopped: ,,What should I do?"
,,Do the hobbies you like, what do you like to do?"
,,Boxing"
,,Then go boxing, your thoughts disappear"
,,Nothing just disappears"
,,What?"
,,No, thanks I...
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Categories:
city,
Form: Blank verse
A Pirate in RetirementHe’s late-stage Charles Bukowski,
Hunching gnome-like over the bar,
With weary eyes, and scruffy stubble.
It’s sure he must have seen some trouble.
But he’s got plenty of cash in his pockets,
Along with the keys to a stolen...
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Categories:
adventure, allegory, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
dependenceDependence
Looking out of the window
at the doctor's waiting room
his receptionist had gone outside for a smoke
she wore black underwear
under a white nylon dress
Faux pas?
What do I care, who dresses in a black T-shirt
jeans and a...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
the tribeThe lost tribe
Holocaust, the ongoing tragedy
this time, it is the Palestinians who are victims
from a tribe that has learned that if one has
to survive, they must be ty, able to tell
lies and cynically plays on...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
race riotRace riot
I went to a dancing competition, little did I know
it was naked dancing by grotesque old people
the young in the audience laughed till their faces
became a mask of horror, looking
at their future
someone pointed at...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, write,
Form: Blank verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
Specific Types of Blank Verse Poems
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Definition | What is Blank Verse in Poetry?