Poetry describes the romance between heart and soul

Narrates the convergence of thought and deed.

Disregards then rewrites weakness into strength,

Balances hope and desire with want and need.

Poetry is a metaphor, a simile, which may

Either by abstract rhyme, prose, or free verse

Relate to all and every person’s experience.

From their birth to death, from a cradle to a he...

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Beneath storm-tossed and skittering leaden clouds

A heaviness falls upon rain-sodden crowds

Commuters try to avoid incessant rain

Their dry weekend leisure hopes washed down the drain

Raised umbrellas scuttle along leaf-strewn streets

Heads bowed low, scurrying as storm and man meet

One home late husband blames his vacuous wife

For the oppressiveness of his rain-drenched ...

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Restrained by a past that is still haunted

By yesterday's ghosts, within and without.

Notions of possibility daunted

For you are manacled by crippling doubt. 

Self-imposed regret acts as a chained ball

That restricts your future reach into light.

Hopelessness and despair, a leadened shawl

Like life's straitjacket, with its straps pulled tight. 

Nested, because the trut...

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