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An ode to Constantinople
Branches of warped ivy cling, to the solemn azure steeple. Long since forgotten. Terrible neglect lets tiles, Shiver off the once beautiful dome. Twilight now broken, iridescent. They came from ...
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Lamentations of a heavy heart
I found you in fondest fields. Dancing transcendence, divine. With worries of ages bound to your spirit. Spun like silk of deepest black. Oh! supreme lover. Love this lonely and ...
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My problem with poetry
Sorry if it is terrible - but it explains it'self. I sit and wonder how such things, As prose, and sonnets or musings, Can be styled from simple thought, Without ...
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An Angel's decent
I drifted here from a foreign shore, my head a wash with forgotten lore. Rested in the ether among the stars, took a stumble, but fell too far. On and ...
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I am not my Country.
Arguably, not my best poem ever- but i really needed to express this thought. Blue skies and green beneath, but what belies is beyond belief. I have no borders or ...
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Being Bullied
We have all, I'm sure felt bullied at some point. This is just a little poem, which tries to communicate some of the thoughts of feelings that one might have ...
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Rain dance.
The foreboding clouds rumble. Mana from heaven. Blessings long awaited.
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"I am a person too"
I often help out at special needs schools. Giving drama lessons, to help the children build up their confidence. This poem, is inspired from what i have learnt while working ...
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What is love?
What is love, but a chemical reaction? Some illusive product of primal attraction. Bring about the greatest feats. Tears up families, children weep. If love is a whim of the ...
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Kissed to death
Cold light reigned over the motionless room. She was always, softly spoken. Where the misbehaved daughter met her doom. Shiny teeth, a winning token. Motionlessly she lay on the bed ...
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A problem with Dyslexia
Words are mazes set in ink, born without bearings, thrown in the paper clink. Without a compass or a map, I endeavour to read, so oft’ snared in a trap. ...
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Lamentations of an unwilling heart.
I found you in fondest fields, Now long since tired of dancing. In the midst of your perfection, I dream I am a bird. Singing your exhaled name. But stand ...
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Long lost friend.
Isn’t it funny how people can change? Long ago caring but now estranged. Taking no time in nailing your coffin, Spending time as small children laughing. Oh how did it ...
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A letter to a belove'ed reader
**Not really my best poem ever, but i have never tried writing a poem in this style before. So it's all just a bit of a case of trial and ...
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Tell me why.
Why is it that all the best things fade? Nothing stops time, no plan yet laid. Why do sakura fall at their very best? With them the joy of spring ...
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I am not my country! - revised
Blue skies and green beneath, but what belies is beyond belief. I have no borders or check points. No flags or regalia. No monuments or visas. Nor does language define ...
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Kissed to death - revised
Cold light reigned over the motionless room. She was always, softly spoken. Where the misbehaved daughter met her doom. Shiny teeth, a winning token. Motionlessly she lay on the bed ...
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An Ode to Evolution
My first go at a sonnet here Alexandrian structure, with English scan - 12 lines, 10beats (half rhymes/rhymes on every other line) ----------------------- If evolution be false - a malice ...
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What makes a man evil?
Are all evils inherent, as something waiting innate? Or be wickedness a skill, As something learnt by free will? Is the Spider who waits, patient, serene, compelled by its' nature ...
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Lonely nights
As long as you’re next to me, I’ll always feel warm; Even now in the mist of this terrible storm. Your body would meet with mine, in innocent touch, You’d ...
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Imagine a world...
I'm just experimenting with form and structure here - Imagine for a moment, someone loves you, that you are beloved. ...You will never be the same again. Imagine all memories, ...
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Girls just wana' have fun
She wondered the lonely sodden city streets, the evening’s vain festivities now done. Light caught in a pool of vomit casts her face sneering at her doppelganger below, distorted by ...
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Sublime
There is no star, nor all in union – Can match the radiance of you. The universe is a dusty shroud It’s only you who shines through. Now let all ...
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The Cross and Crescent
Through the night unholy shapes are present, An age-old war between cross, and crescent. Crusaders now long since vacant from the holy land, Replaced by modern knights with a “helping ...
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They Gym.
Leaking exhausted beads of sweat Metal clanking with set after set The air-con sits idle and broken Red-faced giants grunt as if chockin' Dance music played for motivation Straining with ...
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My Poetry's S**t!?
The title might be a little too strong, but alas. ....... MY POETRY IS SHIT! Some say that my poetry, lacks consistency - but I don't share this view. Slowly ...
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My art for your heart.
I shall write you in verse, but my words will be plain. For I can find no lexis - arcane or cliché. No phrase can I find, to take your ...
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I Love You
Invisible forces that bind me to you, are - Like selfish vines, thorns that inxtoicate me with, Obsession, madness, irrational doubt. Vulgar desires sully my mind with your form, Every ...
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I Love The Buddha
I love the Buddha, He's who I want to be. Like the time he sat beneath the bodhi, to set his essence free. I love the Buddha, He seems to ...
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S.O.S I'm Killing myself!
S.O.S I'm killing myself, with the childish games I play. Having sex without protection, Pulling out before I... I risk my life by smoking, my endeavour to look cool. I ...
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...Mum, I'm gay.
Walking into the kitchen, where my mother's at. I try my best not to turn red, or seem embarrassed that: I have to tell her something- Something she needs to ...
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You are me - You are God.
You are the Sun - That lights my day, and all the warmth it brings. My celestial body. You are the breeze - stroking the canopy, and all the cooling ...
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Autumn has come.
Autumn has come, and the summer has ended. The trees from green, are hoarding deep scarlet, the last fruits fled from their branches going dun. Nothing can stop the flowers ...
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I am less than I am.
My eyes are crystal scrapings, speaking through me with - Germanic tongues; of angels and men who will grant me wings, and soft skeleton. My mind is a stale catacomb, ...
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The moment I became
***Marras is an ancient celtic word for friend. It is still used in remote parts of the british isles*** The moment I became, my thoughts were crimson. Shrouded in pigment ...
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Just friends
why do people think that caring - is a way of making ends? What's wrong with sharing kindness? Whats wrong with being friends? I admit that your good-looking, I concede ...
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I hate my poems
I hate my poems, They’re pretty shit. So harsh to read- As skin is to grit. My work is horrid, Alas it really is. It grates against me, Simply writing ...
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You say nothing to me.
(just experimenting with structure here, so please look at it objectively ) Cut me with your silence! ... Sharper than any word could be polished to. You used to speak ...
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Let me forget you.
Figures crowed my tear swollen eyes. Everyone in my life whom I've loved; all the enemies that I still despise. Every now and then, when I have the time. I ...
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I'm afraid of Halloween.
Sat beneath a timid tree, Her branches tremble so. The wind bids to sooth me, with gentle winds that blow. Heart shrunk up with fear, I don't know why I'm ...
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Haiku : Mourning the loss of Spring.
***Hey everyone - first of all, you know that I have never written a haiku before ( Or submitted one atleast), so this is kind of an adventure for me... ...
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Siddham ( Perfection)
Lama Tian Na... Incense rising, plooms of mantra. Taking flight with dusty wings, I soar through my primal thoughts. Om mae mae om...
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A poem from a Sea-turtle.
I plunged into the current, to see what I could find. Swam amongst the fishies, and left the shore behind. Embracing the Azure, moving with the tide. And here I ...
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Christmas joke.
If heaven only knows, then what are we to do? When preying to a God, you can't speak to. Frost now gathers in, for yuletide to begin. Festivals given nye, ...
