Unique Starry Shine In Your Eyes
The opaque grains of darkness drizzle silently
from the curved cauldron of the seamless onyx sky.
The silver embroidered satin tapestry rolls out
from the copious cornucopia of the nascent night,
as the twilight tinsels dissolve in azure...
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Categories:
love, star, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Sins of the fleshEros,
his temple, night,
fire burns higher/minds meld.
Windows like eyes glow, flare and ebb
set free....
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Categories:
humanity, symbolism,
Form: Cinquain
A land promisedThe Promised land. For a while, I thought that was an actual place where you could go if you had his grace. As the wilderness was this dry, hot, deserted place, where people walked with...
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Categories:
faith, god, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
InfamyVandals,
graphity,
is it an eye sore
or art on the wall
We all leave our mark
Monumental or small
Chiseled in stone
Or in memories
Don't be forgotten
Like the wind on a breeze
Whether it's grand or merrily a speck
In infamy
LIVE
Without a...
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Categories:
courage, perspective, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
NavieSpiteful words spoken
Cast shadows over the truth.
Innocent in chains.
Guilty tread the broken land
Leaving stories unfinished.
...
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Categories:
symbolism, 12th grade, character, corruption,
Form: Tanka
TimeTime ticks by, an endless fading of lives awry.
Time kicks and spins, but we never know where it begins.
Time breeds pain and heartbreak, but not just that.
Time breeds love and faith, and...
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Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, death, fate, myth,
Form: Free verse
Sparkle in Her EyesIf I were a dewdrop, I'd wish I were a blossom.
If I were a blossom, I'd wish I were a butterfly.
If I were a butterfly, I'd wish I were a dewdrop.
Where does all the wishing...
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Categories:
symbolism, baby, deep, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Generational Curse
It will be there in the morning
It will be there at night
Don your boxing gloves
And swing with all your might
You hit hard
Though it’s never enough
Be on your guard
Things are about to get rough
A never...
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Categories:
symbolism, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A Deeper ReflectionI look into a mirror,
Do I like what I see?
Staring at my conscience,
Reflecting back at me.
Inside of this mirror, there’s always more.
So don’t just look, at what’s lying on the shore.
...
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Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, character, deep, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Hire a KeyThe queen has all the power
while foot soldiers goad the king
though he maybe important
the church ahead of hymn
as too crusading bishops
diagonally move to sing
the knights gallant in battle
before a fall within
the castle's rabble- rousers
encircled...
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Categories:
symbolism, conflict, courage, games, power,
Form: Rhyme
Surviving the Storm
Thrust within,
I could not focus.
Lights sizzled,
blistering
and slashing the jagged sky
with vile lightening.
Your visage
materialized
from nowhere,
beckoning,
guiding my path with sure wake
safely to the shore.
You became
my anchored buoy.
Just for you
I inhale.
My heart will always seek berth
in your...
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Categories:
faith, love, storm, symbolism,
Form: Shadorma
TetherIs there any point
to please thine eye
if not reciprocated
with a resonance more
...
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Categories:
symbolism, devotion, love, metaphor, romance,
Form: Free verse
if the sea ran dryif the sea ran dry
every soul would know it
die; then be noticed...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, betrayal, death, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
SkullsSkulls and roses, skulls and crossbones, most of people who died alone.
Skulls in corpses, skulls in the living, ‘til they decompose, protection is what they’re giving.
Protect the mind, that tissue so soft, but...
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Categories:
religion, remember, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
DisconnectedDisconnected
In a world woven with wires,
I stand still,
a stranger in the hum of voices,
the glow of screens reflecting
a pale loneliness against my skin.
Friendships flicker like dying flames,
texts sent into the void,
echoes of laughter lost
in the...
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Categories:
symbolism, inspirational, poetry, poets, spoken
Form: Free verse
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