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  • Damned Souls

    White, Dave. Forgotten Soul. 9 Feb. 2025, Dave White Illustrations.

    Damned Souls captures love as both solace and torment, where time itself becomes the pulse of longing. Through haunting rhythms and tender imagery, the poem binds two souls in passion, darkness, and eternal memory—a love story etched in stars, shadows, and the unyielding tick of the clock.

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  • Shards of the Heart

    Pieces by Dave White

    David White’s Pieces and Kiana Jimenez’s Blind Love merge into a meditation on heartbreak, resilience, and the desire to mend what has been broken. Vibrant fragments echo the poem’s shards of love, showing that even in pain, there remains the drive to rebuild, reassemble, and create new wholeness.

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  • Black Rose

    White, David. Black Rose. December 1, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    A solitary black rose stands alone in a garden of colors, beautiful yet feared, unwanted yet unbroken. Its dark petals whisper of isolation, strength, and the longing for connection. When someone finally dares to embrace its uniqueness, two lonely souls find solace in each other’s presence.

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  • Beyond Right and Wrong

    This exploration of ethical theories—spanning subjectivism, utilitarianism, divine command, and beyond—connects philosophy to lived experience. Through history, examples, and reflection, we consider how morality shapes culture, faith, and personal identity. On Poetic Bipolar Mind, ethics becomes more than theory; it becomes a language for art, healing, and human dignity.

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  • Binds

    White, Dave. Willow. May 24, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Ice burns through the chest, freedom becomes a cruel illusion, and binds linger even when the shackles are gone. Binds captures the ache of emptiness, the weight of choices, and the haunting question of whether escape truly exists. Yet, amidst despair, hope flickers faintly in the mist.

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  • A World in Gray

    Sea Creatures

    “A World in Gray” unravels the weight of numbness and despair, painting a world stripped of color, joy, and light. Through stark imagery of storms, shadows, and hollow songs, the poem captures the haunting stillness of depression while hinting at the hidden struggle of longing for freedom and release.

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  • 8:39PM

    White, Dave. Canyon. September 2, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    “8:39PM” unravels the silence of despair through haunting verses that echo betrayal, loss, and inner torment. With imagery of shadows, frozen nights, and broken vows, the poem embodies the raw voice of pain and truth, a dirge for a soul shackled by lies and desperate for release.

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  • A Raft to Drift Upon

    White, Dave. Raging Sea. February 14, 2025, Dave White Illustrations.

    A Raft to Drift Upon is a tender meditation on love’s power to carry us through life’s fiercest storms. Written by Kiana Jimenez and paired with David White’s Raging Sea illustration, this Emotive Fusion Art piece captures resilience, warmth, and hope in the face of adversity.

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  • When pain becomes impossible to explain, creativity gives it shape. Ink & Pain explores art as survival—a way to transform trauma, fear, numbness, and sadness into expression, understanding, and release.

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  • Anxiety can turn silence into an internal storm. The Noise Inside explores racing thoughts, overwhelm, grounding, rest, and self-compassion—finding healing not through control, but through learning to navigate the waves.

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  • Eternal Expressions

    From storytelling through sacred symbols to crafting statues as vessels for the eternal soul, ancient Egyptian art evolved from mere communication to a spiritual practice of remembrance and rebirth—where form, beauty, and belief intertwined.

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  • Explore how the temporal lobe influences memory, emotion, language, and perception. This insightful breakdown blends neuroscience with PBM’s focus on mental health awareness, helping readers understand how this vital brain region shapes behavior and emotional well-being.

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  • Lotus

    White, Dave. Lotus. November 5, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Like the lotus rising from unyielding mud, you were made to thrive in the dark, to gather strength from shadows, and to bloom, whole and radiant, under the light.

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  • Blind Love

    White, Dave. Pieces. May 18, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Am I just too unreasonable? All I ever want was to have your heart Are you just too ignorant of that? All you ever want to do is release me. I live with all the pains you give me. But I still love you with all of my heart. You cut my heart into many…

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  • Blank Canvas

    White, David. Blank Canvas. July 8, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    So many thoughts, so many ideas— yet my mind is a void, like a painting that hasn’t begun. I yearn for beauty, for colors to burst forth, lighting this shadowed world. But my mind is an expanse of white, racing like a storm. My senses are dulled, yet I feel everything. I see what could…

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  • Self-Worth

    White, Dave. Selling Yourself Short. July 1, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Lately, I feel worthless. I needed to find some value in me, So I sold what I had For little a fee. My eyes for a penny I sold to some fools, They’re blind and useless, Mistook for jewels. My lips for a nickel To the sweetest sin, So they’ll know the love That has…

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  • Greek philosophy was born from myth but carried by reason, asking questions that still haunt us: What is truth? How should we live? From Socrates’ examined life to Heraclitus’ fire, their legacy lingers—reminding us that to be human is to question, to endure, and to seek meaning in the shadows.

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  • When life refuses to make sense, where do we find meaning? Living the Absurd reflects on an unexpected diagnosis through absurdist philosophy, exploring chaos, faith, purpose, and humanity’s need for answers.

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  • The Meaning of Life in Waiting for Godot “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” — Samuel Beckett Existentialism and Meaning The main underlying theme in the play is existentialism and the human struggle to create meaning in what seems to be a meaningless life. Existentialism is a philosophy that the idea of religion…

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  • Faith as a Pseudo-Science

    Can faith stand trial in a courtroom, or survive the cold eye of a laboratory? An essay on belief without evidence, and why justice and religion were never meant to share the same bench.

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  • How much damage can four letters carry? The Power of Hate examines hatred across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, weaving personal experience with reflection on rejection, bullying, self-hatred, grief, recovery, and resilience.

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  • Epic and the Epic Hero

    Split artwork: an ancient Greek warrior with red cape and sword on the left facing a futuristic blue-armored knight before a glowing city on the right, with an eagle and a bright moon above

    The epic heroes Superman and Odysseus embody their cultures, showcasing traits like mysterious origins, extraordinary powers, vulnerabilities, and qualities essential for their heroic journeys and destinies.

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  • Hurt is inevitable, but love is a choice. This piece explores the sacred act of discernment—knowing who deserves your battle and who does not. Through grief, loss, and resilience, we discover that only a rare few are worth suffering for—the ones who stay when everyone else leaves.

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  • Who Deserves Your Fight?

    Woman with glowing heart choosing between darkness and a luminous family

    Everybody is going to hurt you — the real question is who is worth suffering for. A reflection on saving your tears for the ones who’d risk everything for you, and finding your way to heal from the rest.

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  • Darkness Descends

    White, Dave. Distant Planet. October 1, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    In darkness, lost spirits mourn a failed obsession and the end of hope and passion.

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  • Night Ritual

    Ghostship by David White — a sailing ship with a skull, on blue water.

    The narrator experiences an impending sense of doom as storm clouds gather, feeling crushed by fear and isolation, pleading for forgiveness while confronting the inevitability of death.

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  • This poem is from the series The Mayfair Witches which was written by Anne Rice One will rise who is too evil. One will rise who is too good. Twixt the two a witch shall falter and therby open wide the door. Pain and suffering as they stumble Blood and fear before they learn. Woe…

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