free verse
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She walks down the road To shop at the food bank, So little money to get by on The bank offers relief, And gives hope From the desperation, She feels so bad Her kids go without She feels such a failure, She tries so hard to provide It’s like a daily fight for life, You…
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Smoke cloud Drunken haze He sits half dazed, Drug induced delirium Has really set in, A life of half consciouness Gets him through the day, This is his life Now it’s going to waste, Cigarette burns The ash falls away, The red burning ember Now on display, But there’s nothing Burning within him He’s now…
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Standing on a snowy mountain She held in her hand, A sack with contents unknown Her eyes burnt like a firebrand, And all around the snow was stained By blood and wretched corpses, Of beasts unknown and just beyond Was her mighty stone built fortress, And under siege she had decide to ride out and…
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People will ask And people will say, What’s a good rhyme And I say it’s all in the way, You let yours flow And free you mind you know, And be just like light That in the night glows, And radiates waves And causes sonic displays, I am imprisoned like a slave To the rhymes…
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I feel inspired Somehow I am rewired, I need to be required To set within me White hot incandescent and fired, Burning so brightly in the night Somehow reincarnated into life, In a whole new way It’s a game we can all play, When we open our minds To all of the imaginative displays, Manifesting…
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Conspiratorial thoughts on life Whose to say what’s truly wrong or right, Is it down to who we choose to believe Or is it based on research we study and choose to read, Is it based on facts or made up thoughts Do you constantly ask question or simply rely on what you’re taught, And…
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I need to stop now And still my mind, Things are to full on In these trying times, I need to sit and meditate In this time of so much greed and hate, I can’t believe what’s going on And so many people Are to naive to see how it is all wrong, People sleeping…
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Aching I wake up barely ready To face yet another day, Still tired and feeling the pressure That never seems to want to go away, But I resolve myself to the challenge And tell myself opportunities may come my way, If I feel inspired and uplifted despite the day being chiaroscuro grey Yet by shining…
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Ponderous, wonderous Perspicacious truths, The ignominy of consciousness That’s fallen into waste which leads us vexed, Satirical conclusions Defining the masquerading shifts, Of those who’s paranoia Shatter their illusions into bits, Cascading kaleidoscopic Colourful prismic frequency rifts, Transport us into ethereal realms Like a universal cosmic transcendental gift, That offers perpetual lessons of the lives…
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One day I am gonna be big man On day I may finally understand What it is that makes for success What it is I somehow need to address, What it takes, what it is I am not doing So maybe I can build up something brewing, That everyone will engage with And then say…
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