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Amisha priya
Part
Of
Family
Is
Joyful
Apart
From
Family
Is
Joyless
              -­ Amisha priya
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Nobody
i'm afraid that i'm going to turn into you
i don't want to hurt people like that
i know everyone is afraid to become their parents but i really don't want to ruin someones life
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Khoisan
My(my)
kind
your(jou)
kind
their - (hulle)
kind
our - (ons)
kind
be - (wees)
kind
an
imperfect design
folks
please
take your time
Th!nK and Pray
with the joyous experiences
of your
inner child
.
Kind - (child) - in Afrikaans)
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Prosper Anyanwu
The most beautiful flower will wither away!
But you my beloved, even in death your smile still lingers in my heart.
And your dazzling eyes still daunt me in my sleep!.
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Crooked Gal
Sane or insane
No difference in between
As sane defines perfect
All to perfect is insane
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Shambhavi
Three blind men touched an elephant one day,
Each judged the animal in their own way.
One felt the leg and boldly cried,
“A rough, strong tree trunk, broad and wide!”

Another touched the tusk and cried,
“So smooth and sharp from every side!”
The third held the tail and gave a sigh,
“It’s thin and hairy, like rope swinging by.”

All three were right, yet all were blind,
None saw the whole with an open mind.
They argued loud, in anger and might...
Each defending only their slice of sight.

Isn’t it just like the world today?
Where people fight over what they pray?
Different names, but lessons the same,
Still we battle, Come on it's 2025!!
What a shame!!
I saw this story on a YouTube channel and I thought  of creating a poem on it however I know this story before, my grandma told this in my childhood when I saw this on YouTube I was like hey it's my childhood story and I thought of creating a poem on this I don't remember the channel name if any one knows plz tell me its actually been a month since I saw that video. Well we all know there's a single form of energy who made us all , who all we love there might be different forms beliefs different methods to pray but I know faith and love are same💖
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Eli
Love?
Hope?
Faith?
All the same..
Do they exist?
A question that everyone thinks about at some point.
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Piyush
Patience,
A little more patience.
Wait through the days,
With no expectations.

Dedication,
Followed by frustration.
I live in imagination,
Devoid of reciprocation.

Communication,
To sort the relation.
Before you fade,
Into silent celebration.

Desperation,
Still the hesitation.
Locked in forever,
In this realization.
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Ivan
is so strong,
why do I feel like
hate is winning?
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Salmabanu Hatim
Comes after great sacrifices,
And patience
23/6/2025
My father had his own bedroom, mother hers. That should had told me something, which it did, but I was too young to understand. As I grew up, father remained emotionally distant from me. Through grade school, I made straight A's, but he never acknowledged it.  Only once did he play catch with me in the front yard. In junior high, I continued to make straight A's, was co-captain of both the football and basketball teams, and was president of the student council, but he never said a word. As a sophomore in high school. I was elected president of our class by over 800 classmates, but father remained silent. As a junior, I was admitted to Andover, the oldest and arguably the most prominent prep school in America, but all father could say to me was 'be of good cheer." I chose to attend Columbia instead of Yale and had a great four years, but father forgot to put film in the camera when he took photographs at graduation. When I dropped out of law school the first day of finals my first semester, my father was enraged, but again in silence. When I began to write poetry, he said, "Go buy a rental property." My father never congratulated me, never gave me a hug, never told me that he loved me. At times he would say mean, hurtful things to me, which still hurt today. I wrote a poem years ago in which I alluded to one of Shelley's most famous poems. My phrase was "farther away than Ozymandias." That was my father.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
guilt and shame
eating to blame
lack of control
lack of tame
the food comes in
the fat puffs out
if only cold turkey
didn’t sound so good right now
how to quit that of which you need to live
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Nolan Bucsis
Words
Don't coalesce
Like they used to.
They dissolve into my
Petulant apathy-
Feelings of forgetfulness.
Ineloquent.
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Vaampyrae
picture me, in your car
your hands on my thigh
my hands to the nape of your neck
picture you, in my room
your head on my lap
my lips to your wrist
picture us, in your bed
your heartbeat to my ear
my feet tangled with yours
the games we'd have played
the different places we’d have been to together
the little fights we'd have fought
now picture lust swallowing us whole
picture everything and nothing at the same time
picture.
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Julie Butler
I begged
something to find you
hi

hi-five mountains around
goodbyes

goodbye

Friday’s coming and I’ve not
yet arrived
spilled all of my
waiting on
better yet & applied
anything that I had left
blame my thighs
blame the rest of my legs and
my eyes
put it in my left hand and
surprise
apple of
both of my eyes
I’m alive, better yet
every grand gesture
pry open
a thing
I do not have the words to
describe
& prescribe me
all of your damp leg, better yet
set to the side

& Insinuate love like it
comes
at a price
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Maria Etre
Have you ever thought
that a poet's pen
performs
"open heart "surgery
every time
it writes?
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Boma
My mom chose someone's mom's burial over her own daughter's graduation

Hits hard
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Lynn Stillman
I've known rejection
It bore deep into my heart
Left a nasty scar.
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Karen
The star lit night blurs
I say sweet dreams on a breath
Past the edge of fear
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The last Poet
We've loved
We've lost
But at what cost

They come
They go
But we have to pay

They never do stay
The cost of losing them
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DarkSkyesRising
There's something in the air
That makes me feel like I've been here before
The birds chirping
The sun disappearing and reappearing behind fluffy white clouds
The soft breeze
The heat
I've lived this summer before
Maybe in a different universe,
Another life time,
Or a dream...

Maybe I'm still asleep
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meyamisa
I light a candle
with your name in it.

All the quiet sorrow
sits beside me,
where no voice lives.

I remember the whispering birds—
the hush before words.

Let the rain bear witness
to what hearts have sworn.
poems about love
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Maria Etre
I
c//r//a\ck\ed
my
ribcage open
((because the love))
(((((my heart carries)))))
(((((((((((((((((grew it)))))))))))))))))))))
and now it
doesn't fit
any
more
The love my heart carries keeps growing and growing me and at some point if I don't share it, I'll become love itself.
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Malcolm
A leaf moves
we call it thought.

Silence gathers shape
then slips the name.

Truth is only still
until we touch it.

Even the sun
casts doubt
when it breaks.

The question walks,
but never arrives.
03 August 2025
Stillness wears a Tongue
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
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Ian
The box said
‘1,000 pieces’
Yet the picture is complete.

I watch from the lid—
unfitted.

There was never room
for 1,001.
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Lukas Buijs
tell me, when it's here:
will they pray at church's rear,
or flee to what feels safe—
the things that consume us gracefully?

i'm sure he's been waiting patiently.
for what has a God to lose,
when his creations, full of *****,
create and copy easily?

yet he won't strike with fire,
nor challenge rising blasphemy.

let all roam with desire,
since God has nothing to lose.
i'm growing up in a religious household, and i'm intrigued by my parents' perspective on Artificial intelligence, and all the wars going on. They assume it's all part of a huge holy war. even though i doubt God's existence heavily, i like to think of him as someone who is tired of all our *******. Especially in times like this.
My nests you lay,
Learning to create before you are even created.
Protected by my daughters,
Medusa & Pythia.
Likewise, neither shall you truly sink before you swim.
The womb. Eggs.
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Srishti
Giving my worst in my most important phase of life.
how is it possible to be so careless.
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Athos
Admire them from afar,
Like the beautiful constellation they are.
You want to feel them close,
But is it worth it?

Your eyes will melt,
And your skin will burn.
You will turn into dust,
While they keep on shining and sinning
With their mere existence.

Is the cost of turning into ashes worth it,
Just to feel them close for a brief moment?
Where their brightness makes your irises explode,
And the heat makes your soul melt?

Is it all worth it,
Knowing it will end you and erase your timeline,
While this is just another fleeting moment
In the endless light of their life?
I've revisited this one... I think it sounds better now.
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nivek
used to have yellowed fingers
stinking of nicotine

that drug had me hooked at age fifteen
-all the way to fifty three.
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OnLithium
Wanting to drown in your love
And float in your dreams
Wanting to die in your arms
And live in your thoughts
Wanting to get lost in your eyes
And be found in your heart
Wanting to be helpless to your touch
And thrive in your grasp
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Olivia Williams
One petal left—
But the rose doesn’t cry.
On petal left—
Yet the rose still try’s.
One petal left—
But color still radiates.
Hope is what powers,
The rose,  
No matter the fate.
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Jimmy silker
King Kong
Went wrong
When they brought a blonde along
He only wanted to be loved
It could only end one way.
Dulce Jesús de mi vida,
¡qué dije!, espera, no os vais:
que no es bien que vos seáis
de una vida tan perdida.

Pero si no sois de mí,
yo, mi Jesús, soy de vos,
porque quiero hallar en Dios
esto que sin Dios perdí.

Mas ya vuelvo a suplicaros
que de mi vida seáis:
que si vos no me la dais,
no tendré vida que daros.

Deseo daros mi vida,
y sin vos no es daros nada,
porque con vos va ganada,
cuanto sin vos va perdida.

Muérome de puro amor
por llamaros vida mía:
que la que sin vos perdía,
ya no la tengo, Señor.

Pues vuestra piedad me adiestra
como a oveja reducida,
quiero llamaros mi vida,
aunque he sido muerte vuestra.

Vida mía, en este día
me habréis de hacer un favor;
¡oh, qué bien me va, Señor,
con llamaros vida mía!

Luego que vida os llamé,
a pediros me atreví,
porque el regalo sentí
que en vuestro brazos hallé.

Y es que jamás permitáis
que otra vida sin vos tenga:
que no es bien que a vivir venga
vida donde vos no estáis.

¡Ay Jesús! ¿Cómo viví
sólo un momento sin vos?
Porque si la vida es Dios,
¿qué vida quedaba en mí?

¡Qué cosas tuve por vida
tan miserables y tristes!
¿Es posible que pudistes
sufrir cosa tan perdida?

Pero sospecho, mi Dios,
que fue permitirlo así,
para que viesen en mí
qué sufrimiento hay en vos.

Pero no lo habéis perdido,
¡oh soberana piedad!,
pues conozco mi maldad
por lo que me habéis sufrido.

Porque sé de aquel vivir,
como si Dios no tuviera:
que quien menos que Dios fuera
no me pudiera sufrir.

¡Qué de veces os negué
por confesar mi locura
a la fingida hermosura,
donde no hay verdad ni fe!

Si la vuestra en la cruz viera,
¡ay Dios y cuánto os amara!
¡Qué de lágrimas llorara,
qué de amores os dijera!

No sé, mi bien, qué os tenéis,
que todo me enamoráis,
o es que, como abierto estáis,
mostráis lo que me queréis.

Amenazado de vos,
parece que no os temí,
y lleno de sangre sí;
decid, ¿qué es esto, mi Dios?

¡Oh qué divinos colores
os hace esa sangre fría!
¡Oh cómo estáis, vida mía,
para deciros amores!
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