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Atrophied Poems - Poems about Atrophied

Square One
... The clean slate gleams, almost blinding. A stark white canvas where vibrant hues once clashed, or perhaps faded into a tired monochrome. No comforting smudges of the past remain, no familiar ......

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Categories: atrophied, life,
Form: Free verse
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard
...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard... since being a student in grade, junior and high school analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves quite aware that finger musc......

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Categories: atrophied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Why Have You Forsaken Me?
...Hello? Can you hear me? I feel like I’ve been shouting my sorrows at nothing at all Are you ignoring me? Are you even real? Why have you forsaken me? I say it while I shake an angry fist at the......

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Categories: atrophied, 9th grade, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yet I Thought
... When thoughts become obsessive, is my heart being made redundant, laid off, cast off, sent astray recycled pulse rates mere skip hire fodder, atrophied organ sinking into deep morass, panic s......

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Categories: atrophied, care, change, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Flute and Citole
...Her sound functioned in the chorus of onlooker in my defeat. Might the Strumb of Kokopelli danced to the songs of Shiva and Bragi. I smiled days later that my retribution might silence the cele......

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Categories: atrophied, appreciation, celebration, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade



Atrophied Love
...Our Love, Eternally Bound Our love is embodied in words, clinging to our lips, yet fated to never touch the real, forever exiled from taking form. We whisper "I love you" day and night, ......

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Categories: atrophied, 7th grade, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Everything and no one
...I gaze at the Highlands’ mountains and try to force myself to feel joy in its entirety. But I can’t. Look how beautifully the sun plays on the rocks like its pressing keys: white for light, bla......

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Categories: atrophied, analogy, mountains, travel, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member signs of autumn
...leaves tumbling from trees wild geese honking overhead~ bright orange pumpkins frost-etched window panes crimson canopies aflame~ scarecrows atrophied carved jack-o-lanterns bare n......

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Categories: atrophied, autumn, beautiful, change, halloween,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Allowing Myself to Petrify
...I am in a stupor a hypnotic daze my feet no longer work they have atrophied soon my body will be a statue completely petrified I can blame no one but myself my recliner is too comfy If I to......

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Categories: atrophied, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gray Pods
... In pods, pale and emaciated- muscles atrophied, their eyes behind thick goggles deflecting stroboscopic lights- they sit for hours with empty smiles. Each human in a private pod lo......

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Categories: atrophied, future, sad, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Completeness
... Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are. ______________________________________ Phenotype......

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Categories: atrophied, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf Minor emendations to following just posted verse oversight to correct dissatisfaction, yours truly I do curse ah... methinks if hands of ti......

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Categories: atrophied, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf Thus writer of these words forever mus lee experiencing craving to eat cheese, a milk product eternally preserved within annals, chroni......

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Categories: atrophied, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lunacy Scream
...Written: June 18, 2023 Ekphrasis Edvard Munch Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Dilly Dally ______________________________________________________________ Humani......

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Categories: atrophied, appreciation, art, encouraging,
Form: Ekphrasis
White and Crimson Scribbles
...My crimson scribbles; there is no meaning, there is no feeling, and there will be no healing, not today at least… Horizontal, never vertical for some reason. I cannot explain, though reasoning is ......

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Categories: atrophied, depression, feelings, mental health,
Form: Free verse

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