Category: Poems

  The mortal eye was opened wide As the human soul unmasked The visions it beheld Made it want to look away   The tale of mankind Was laid before this cringing eye It lingered there oggling this vision, sprawled before it It lay like an outgrowth of an unattractive weed  …

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By Elisabetta Panzica   There upon a morbid landscape The image of a man was drawn Like a painting yet unfinished Incomplete in composition Of the flesh and of the spirit Lacking an essential element That once held his entity together   Fate's shadow crawled into his world Took from him all that he ever…

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BY Elisabetta Panzica   Shattered dreams and broken hearts Entwine Forbidden love beckons at my door Temptation's fruit Lays scattered at my feet   As love unfolds Temptation's child brings A battle of the heart and soul   Forbidden love yields a bitter fruit As shattered dreams and broken hearts Entwine   Virtue overcomes temptation And…

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  Sometimes I remember them as I walk through my empty house I see them staring back at me Trapped inside a portrait Their eyes, their souls forever plastered against the wall. They are gone now Each one gone   My house is silent but outside the siren beckons I cannot stop the noise The…

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Like a barren tree She stood In the midst of the forest green A thousand fallen leaves Adorned the misty fields Shattered like an empty dream Each leaf crumbled And dissolved   The fruits she yielded Were ripped from every limb For there upon its branches sat The serpent that entwined with…

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