Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, blessing, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Today my heart races for youYour flesh was never warmer than my passion, a flame more intense than you could ever bear. My love for writing poetry is my secret weapon.
While I may not claim to be gifted
My identity is Black, and words have always motivated me. I can string them together easily, but making them meaningful? That’s...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Cousin MI often reflect on the character of certain individuals. The character I'm referring to, in a dictionary sense, is not the same as the characters in my book. Writing reveals a person's character like nothing else.
The characters in my poems are never about me; they reflect my willingness to come to terms with them. For...
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Categories:
beautiful, character, encouraging, friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
looking back five years agoTwo formidable contenders are battling for the crown, each making grand promises. Where do we go wrong? What wisdom does our Bible impart about speaking in tongues? It's a reality that for one to win, another must lose; that’s the essence of this game change. We know that nothing will ever be the same again.
...
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Categories:
abuse, allusion, career, fate,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Bell Tower That Leaned InI. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
Liberty’s fracture
braided through its fibers
a wound
that never quite...
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Categories:
allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Collision On The Gate
In ghostly white of midnight as
sky- shadows trace gossamer streaks ,
I become a recluse,
losing tracks of stars' grave hues
and the flavor of meadows
in snow grows bitter...the bronze gate
reeking of metal cold, again --frozen
like my rusty, numb thoughts.
Must I remember
how they were slain? The wails come
to haunt those Godforsaken eves
when the lane...
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Categories:
pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Poetry is my passionPoetry is my passion,
Empathy is part of my job; it is a deliberate choice.
We just must tell the stories of others
Who can’t defend themselves?
He is an unpopular character, this old man,
Who sits and draws cartoon characters
Of all his childhood abusers,
While blasting their names....
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Categories:
10th grade, allegory, anger,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When Hell is FullWhen Hell Is Full**
Sweet memories fade like old Navy clothing,
leaving an unpleasant taste in my mouth—
like a can of Grace corned beef with stale onions,
drizzled with oil; it was tolerable at the time.
Years have passed, yet those thoughts still
send chills down my spine. I utterly...
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Categories:
absence, angst, cheer up,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Its time to make a DecisionA list of tasks to accomplish before I embrace love again:
I envision my mind wandering through expansive fields where patches of grass lie brown. A single wildflower stands out among the scattered pebbles beneath my feet. Memories linger, taunting me alongside the bare trees with their bent trunks. A cool breeze brushes against my face;...
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Categories:
allusion, anger, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ginger Shots**Ginger Shots**
Today, of all days, I find myself dividing my tears into sections. With each moment, each tear, and each snuffle I make, the paper tissues crumble, showing signs of the mishaps in life that surely cannot be mended. Yesterday was your birthday, and today is my revelation about life—my life.
Lately, it seems I’ve...
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Categories:
allusion, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Some of us Remembered**Cover-Ups**
The Cardinals will sing, but let’s confront the truth behind it all. We deceive ourselves, but a higher power knows the reality of these situations: makeup and the cover-ups. The Cardinals' song may be beautiful, yet the raven never returned, while the dove came back, never forgetting what it had seen. It whistles a tune...
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Categories:
allusion, depression, desire, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Soul Hemorrhaged
I feel life breaking a glass, any glass
Or screaming at anyone with or without cause
For now, my breath and tears find no rest,
Seething on a bomb of fury, time claims a place
For rage piercing through my gut too deep...
I never knew he has gone beyond the stars
My soul hemorrhaged, my innocence vandalized--
Please tell me this...
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Categories:
bereavement, father daughter,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Heart Erupts
Leather bound thoughts, tied on pages,
whispering to me of each day's beginnings
This sheet peels heart's despair
Creeping on bondage of words not spoken
that in the light, a yearning arises
Spilling yarns knitted but unraveled-
Time's remembrances awaken and heave
Soaking memories on the earmarks of carbon
To learn that passages with bleeding lines
Never open to rage...
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Categories:
angst, memory, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Success at Last
A lady at a coffee shop was sobbing.
Another lady, a Good Samaritan,
said gently: May I be of help, madam?”
“Not really,” she said, “it’s really nothing.
My husband...an accident...this morning,
fatal, and finally.” “Oh, I am so sorry,”
said the lady offering her sympathy
hoping she might lessen the lady’s grief.
“Oh please, don’t be. My tears...
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Categories:
dark, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Categories:
8th grade, anger, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Specific Types of Dramatic Verse Poems
Read wonderful dramatic verse poetry on the following sub-topics:
animals, christmas, death, friendship, food, funny, kids, life, love, modern, music, nature, rhyme, school, sports
and more.
Definition | What is Dramatic Verse in Poetry?