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In sprawled hideaway Where humidity nests Is kinship’s refuge Beneath the twining branches High evergreens Span endlessly Echoing former years My treasured juvenile breaths The orchestral June Larks just the same With familiar, bold hues Beaming far and wide Folks thrive Steadily Coasting Day to day Peacefully Blissfully Full and content With warm greetings And…
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Outside The skin glimmers With a proud, exuberant sheen Yet the storm rages From the marrows confines Into the very core Of my timid psyche Ravaged memories plume Clouding my slumber With their untethered ghosts On and on I twist and writhe Wincing through the scuffle From half-truths spent Outside I hold firm to a…
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A scorched and scarred mind Wavers Taken, by the throws of grief The towering horizonsJagged and swervingAgainst the careless noon sky Laboring footsteps Are upward bound Across the brittle soilMarred by desolation The flesh simmers Blistering at the journey’s peakBathed in scalding light The high, beaming scourge of day Yet matter presses on Driven by…
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In the hold of simplicity My stern and faithful refuge I craft until I am brimmed Weighed down with satisfaction Whole In the caring Clutches of serenity As familiarity wafts The warm fragrances of home Salted seas And afternoon wisps Lash away at my skin While I passionately reminisce The tussle never quiets In the…
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Upon tarnished ground Laden with mangled thoughts Scrambled yearnings Bellow far and wide To lure me in To dispatch all i am Familiar turf subsides Swallowed by a roving glimmer Distorted fallacies expand Latching firm To an aimless wind They spill their refrain Of deafening mayhem Whirling, harrowing torment To lure my reluctant stride Sprawled…
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He strains to omit himself Cruelly barred From his treasured emptiness The world flocks For his hollow pastures Draining their anguish In torrents of vibrant shades Through his pores The earth lumbers on In his daily blood In his teary-eyed rut Introspection retreats Held off for another time For now, the earth Must hold sway…
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My tailored deceit Sprawls through merciful night Latched firm to my nerves Grating and biting Harbored dismay Is my long suffered plight The drawn road I’ve claimed By way of heinous verse In due time The constant shall unravel Shriveled by revelation Of my sprawled,nefarious crimes They’ll scale the walls Of my ruined conscience Like…
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Scorched craters dot the plains Where hell transpired In waves of valiant grey Across the sea Of barley gold Droves of blue Stormed with courage The bayonets plunged And side-arms popped In the tussle of brothers Along their fashioned rift Inferno still blares Through the cold girth of night Bludgeoning the afflicted The outwardly unscathed…
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Half-cooked legends Are eagerly spun from my lips Diverging at an instant Into rogue, splintering trails I strain to draw them shut To a soft simmer To a clean demise They sputter with age Crumbling with haste As resolve diminishes And time defers From hair thin thoughts Timid streams of epiphany Some roll on to…
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Harsh reality raids my skin Filling my lungs with distress With each step I heave Louder and louder Until I succumb to grief Acquaintances Dispense their jagged words To skewer the surface And sow their urges What ought to be Erodes my flesh Overtaking the contours I’ve grown to accept I heave from below With…