InflictionHe was just a boy alone in journey of life
Morals, high standards upon family name he walks
No recollection to memory, just brief thought in mind
Certain image portrayed, locked away in the depths
A way of life's poverty, morning dose's of the syrup
Just a toddler throwing sticks on tobacco, outhouse out back...
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Categories:
absence, conflict, endurance, longing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When I Depart, Remember Me SoftlyI did not come to win the world—
I came to feel it bleed.
To taste the silence in the hungry mouth,
To weep where no one dared to read.
To my family—
You held my name like worn cloth,
never quite knowing what I was stitched to become.
But I loved you more than I could say.
I only wanted to bring...
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Categories:
absence, death, death of
Form: Free verse
How Do I Start?“How do I start?
How do I start, the story of the end?
It starts after you going away,
Leaving me astray,
Going through it all was a long haul.
But now I have arrived at the shore where I don’t feel anything no more,
I’ve travelled a long way from you
And from new possibilities too,
After you I never intended to...
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Categories:
absence,
Form: Rhyme
fidelityThe fidelity
the sin of the flesh, why is it a sin
sexuality is a strong and natural desire
but often the downfall of the great
who lacks respect for lust
treats it with a low moral attitude
There are the monks of Thailand
naked feet in sandals, and one assumes
naked bodies under burgundy
robes, can so easily fall prey to when
a lady...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
Cruel JewelSign of new tomorrows?
The old ones may just say.
Agony, pain, sore sorrows!
Doubt, dread and dismay!
Wilted flower, came the rain?
Death, ye did disdain!
Thunderbolts across the main!
Blighted by the bane!
Soar above us, carrion crow!
Dappled light, thy roe...
Weathervane, point well to woe?
Reap just what ye sew.
Thus in springtime, new and strong.
Elders, ye belong?
O for heroes without song!
Sin's light,...
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Categories:
absence,
Form: Rhyme
Rewind Pt2Things doesn’t go the way we want,
They go the way we do for it.
Results I got harsh, which I can’t,
Future happens according to one’s did.
Was a larva tried hard and hard to rest,
But am a butterfly which could not fly.
Understood the assignment after just,
The results came out, can’t time just rewind.
...
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Categories:
absence, childhood, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Rolling the Dice
Ruby Tuesday caught him on the rebound
They met at a Rolling Stones Concert
He was glad she came into his life, he conceded
She was nice to have around
To fill the void his heart needed
Before he met her, he was in bars drinking whiskey and gin
Where honkey tonk women danced,...
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Categories:
absence, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
a new futureA new future
To wake up in the night and sense the awe of life is
light from street lights tells of other sides, as does
a car driving by at two in the morning
Living forever is a punishment, but some people
write a self-biography in the hope that when they
Die, they will be remembered
To be blessed in the...
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Categories:
absence, age, art,
Form: ABC
1 misses and mr mommy babby#1 MISSESS AND MR. MOTHER AND BABBY
BY: MUÑOZ MACIEL FAMILIA
FOREVER LIKE A HEARTS TOUCH
FRAGEL
BUT DEEP
THAT RIPES ME APPART
And tears me open
AS I KNOW IVE LOST YOU TO THAT OF A WOMEN.........
Without a heart
TOGETHER OUR SPIRITS CALL...
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Categories:
4th grade, absence, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Michael, My BrotherYour smile is like the moon all silver lined,
I wanted to be by you, time after time.
Your love for sports was quite unreal,
But you never gave up that rid and reel.
Your humour was loved, loved by us all,
But your laugh was the best, best of it all.
I watched when you became a man and you...
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Categories:
absence, brother, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Today my heart races for youYour flesh was never warmer than my passion, a flame more intense than you could ever bear. My love for writing poetry is my secret weapon.
While I may not claim to be gifted
My identity is Black, and words have always motivated me. I can string them together easily, but making them meaningful? That’s...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
monday morningMonday morning
woke up at eight, it was a splendid morning
cool before the day becomes serious and
demanding attention
belonging to the 1% of people born before
the second world war, I'm often awake
in the night before falling asleep again
my first thought was not profound, but
about coffee, I had to drink it black since
I had forgotten to buy milk
switched...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, art,
Form: ABC
the datethe date
it was late when my date entered
the kitchen closed, but the waiter served
We had gateau with white wine, but he refused
to give me red wine as it doesn't go
well with cakes
she drank a whole bottle and got giggly
at an outdoor kiosk, I bought two
hot dogs, one with mustard, the other
with ketchup, I ate...
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Categories:
absence, america, art,
Form: ABC
What doesn’tagree to disagree
At a young age, I started to realize that the only way to make my mom happy was to agree with her.?When you agree, everyone is happy… right??But no.?I was so busy thinking about keeping everyone else happy,?I forgot to ask myself what made me happy.
It wasn’t people.?Wasn’t drugs.?Wasn’t love.?And it damn...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
I Wish You'd Quit DrinkingWhen I think about you drinking alcohol,
I start to feel disgust.
Your absent-mindedness
makes all my feelings feel so just.
When you took alcohol from random men
and excused it—
it caused me distrust.
Seeing you wasted that time
really messed up all of my brain.
It makes me relive those moments—
and all I feel is pain.
When you got a ride from a...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Romanticism
Specific Types of Absence Poems
Definition | What is Absence in Poetry?
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