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POEM STARTER
The Revelation
Write a poem with a structured rhyme scheme, using this as the title.
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I sit and ponder
Whilst having a brief wander,
What are your intentions?
Everybody watches you,
Feeling like they are under review.
Hanging on every word you say,
But the more you say,
The more my morals hold me at bay.
When I was searching for answers,
I thought you could be an enhancer.
But then I realised your nothing but a product of your time.
Warped with stubbornness,
Yet somehow, still r...
I begged you to stay
for everything to remain the same
so that nothing would change
but you left anyways.
the flowers turned gray
all joy washed away
and yesterday faded into today.
All of our friends stand here,
surounding your grave.
We lay flowers the color of the rainbow
next to the rocks painted with your name.
Today I learned all things change,
and nothing will forever be the same,
but t...
You say I am wise for my age, yet when I speak a word
You do not heed the simple truth, as though you never heard
You say I am a scholar, my thoughts poetic script
Yet when I say to live again, you do not leave the crypt
You judge a book by its cover just because it is not perfect
But no one here is blameless, and you don’t give the verdict
You preach the golden rule, yet do not see it throug...
In the darkness and despair, hidden from prying eyes,
Lies the secret of self harm, a painful compromise.
The blade becomes a friend, a twisted
kind of solace,
A way to release the pain, to find a
moments piece.
With each cut, a revaluation, a glimpse
into the soul,
A cry for help, a silent scream, a way to
gain control.
The scars that mar the skin, they tell a
story true,
Of battles fou...
I didn’t do a structured rhyme scheme but yk here it is
The one reason you have
The heart of your life
Is slowly poisoning you
And you can’t see
It has fogged over your eyes
Clouded your vision so that you don’t understand wrong from right
Yet you cling to it blinded by its “glory”
Perception blurred you take wrong path after path
Dizzy with rage you sicken
But you think it’s the cure
And you’ll ...
Every single year I try
But every time I get denied
I try my hardest to succeed
But they say I’m not what they need
I work my hardest every day
But I’m not good enough to stay
I try to claw my way to the top
But they just tell me I should stop
I kick and scream and bite and flail
But they say I will only fail
I do the best I fucking can
But they say they need a stronger man
Again and again ...
Come on,
Come and sit down
What would you like,
You glutton
You disgust me
Walk on.
Welcome!
Choose what to wear!
Anything, anything you want
How revealing
How immoral
You disgust me
Walk on.
I need help
I want help
How dare you say that
When you have a roof under your head
And a loving father
And food and water,
You disgust me
Walk on.
Walk on.
Walk on.
Everything I do is evaluated
I can not e...
And so I begin to wonder
What defines a blunder?
Is it a critical mistake?
Or does it leave brilliant ideas in its wake?
Does it create new things
When the light bulb above your head dings?
Does it ruin it all?
Or is there splendor within the fall?
Perhaps a blunder isn’t so grim
We have to move on and go out on a limb
So as I conclude my musing
With a new concept I’ll begin using
I think ...
The revelation
Comes with inconsigration
The melancholy woes
From the gospels of sewn
Into the weave it goes
Unbeknownst to heathen lives
The people will adapt to what heals
Even if its fame
Even if its fortune
There God forsaken in this church of old haze
But they say faith is blind to the maze
The maze of our digital escape
We all live in a digital terrain
Like objects on display
In a vertua...
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