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Poetry

Tempest

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Written by: Leo_Toribio
Category: Poetry
Created: January 3, 2011, 5:25 am
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TEMPEST


How Like a tempest is this wailing child
Who rages here disconsolate and pretty;
Her piercing shriek's like some wind fierce and wild
Chilling my soul and flooding me with pity!
Torrential tears are storming from her eyes
While in this cloud more dismal and more gray
Than ever I saw

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Ballad of the Green Beret

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Written by: Leo_Toribio
Category: Poetry
Created: January 3, 2011, 5:19 am
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Odd chums one finds in those foreign climes
Where the sun beats down all day.
And the weirdest bunch with whom I've lunched
Are the boys of the Green Beret.

Private Dan was a boy not a man
When he left the states for the war;
Then he caught a shell

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Eternity (English Sonnet)

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:50 pm
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Winter's harsh winds will nip at your soft face
Summer's scorching heat will burn your smooth skin
I will remain in the same soothing place
I will be the calm love you feel within.

Others will tempt you not with love but lust
They will try to make your love for me bend
Recall I

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Passion

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:49 pm
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Part your lips to form a smile
The look of love speaks so clear.
Pull me in close
Keep me near.

Trace your hand across my cheek
Gently caress my lips with yours.
Thunder crashes around us
Outside it pours.

Safe in our world
Wrapped in your arms.
Outside the

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Metamorphosis

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:46 pm
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A paradise so clear
A wonderland of bliss
A life is changed with just one kiss.

An intimate bond
A feeling from the heart
A realization that you are not to be apart.

A wondrous summer day
A sky so blue
A perfect day ends with an "I Do."

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Deliverance

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:42 pm
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She cries blood
Tears of her veins
The crimson droplets
Trickle down her porcelain skin.

The origin--unknown.
The destination--heartache.
The path--loneliness.

Her life begins to gush
Through the orifices her scarlet liquid roars
One minute until death
But wait!

A kiss--
From a ghost?
From her prince?
Saved!

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Delicate Flesh

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:39 pm
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Pain like a knife

Digging into my heart

Each beat kills me more

Until I die

Each beat a constant reminder

Of the pain of you--

The knife.

Pull it out slowly

Careful not to tear

The delicate

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The Angel You Sometimes Feel

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:37 pm
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"Please don't leave me " is what I said
"Just five more minutes?"
But you ran out to your car instead.

I sat there amazed
You left so easily.
I was confused and dazed.

On your way home you wondered if you were right
To leave me all alone--
Or would you

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The R Word

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:31 pm
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Identity stolen.
Five minutes of pleasure.
Five minutes of despair.
Lifetime of pain.
Identity robbed.
Stolen innocence
Faked youth.
Identity surreal.
Denial of acts
Committed.
Heinous acts
For five minutes of pleasure
Five minutes of despair.
Lifetime of identity

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Captivated

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:30 pm
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So captivating.

Your eyes so turquoise

Perfectly clear

Dancing in the light

Like the midnight stars.

One look is all it took.

I'm encompassed.

Taken back.

You stole the breath from my lungs

Left me speechless.

All I can do is stare.

You hold me in a trance

My body unable

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Deception

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:29 pm
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All these emotions

Devotions

Promotions

Leading to the notion of love.

Tears.

Fears.

Trying to kick in to gear.

All the past lies

Cries

Guys

Are stopping me from you.

So hope

Don't mope

Don't elope from the idea

One day I'll be yours.

The pain will

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Empty Abyss

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Written by: Hi-C
Category: Poetry
Created: December 31, 2010, 6:27 pm
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My heart is desolate

Abandoned by everyone who once resided here.

I invited them to stay--

But everyone went stray.

I'm left with an empty chest

I promise I gave them my best.

Didn't meet their expectations

They had to search for better.

Why was I not good enough?

Why make it

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