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Benumbing Poems - Poems about Benumbing

The Silent Storm
...A silent storm is brewing within my chest A benumbing chill sets my soul aflame A warm welcome sets alarm bell ringing, In the realm of hush at the dawn of dusk do you hear the swooshing ......

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Categories: benumbing, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bereaved
...“Though grief burdens one, it may lessen in time. But like an ember it keeps smoldering and from time to time, may grow into flames, burning inside” ......

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Categories: benumbing, angst, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Life's Ironies
...Don't ask too much or ask for much! You'll be a nuisance if you do. Yet, don't forget to ask anyway! It'll be mere nonsense if you don't. Dare to take risks, you, foolish friend! You'll thrive w......

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Categories: benumbing, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Death In the Red Street
...It was never her choice, to be into the red gallows. Body sold in the witching hour, forsaking her hemorrhaged soul, she moves on. Twitching in pain, trembling limbs, scars of yesterday’s lus......

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Categories: benumbing, anger, angst, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insects
...In my consign of living, nature in its fullness bends, Creepers, climbers, insects and flies are, hence, in abundance; House-flies relish our rooms, floors, beds, heads, faces, feet and food, Ants......

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Categories: benumbing, insect,
Form: Rhyme



Blossom
...Over the moon? Below the stars! Betwixt a waking dream and benumbing reality ... A baby-faced blossom tries to summon up its courage before faring on a quixotic quest to face the raging current ......

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Categories: benumbing, hope,
Form: Free verse
Dreams
...Impatient floodwaters at dams Waiting for shutters to open, A hodgepodge of puppets Excited to perform: at deep slumber, Waiting for my eyes to close, The naughty byproducts of my brain! I......

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Categories: benumbing, dream, emotions, imagery, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Enigmatic Rhapsody
...Straying back to the dreams, I stand here glancing at the flirting butterflies, crooning hummingbirds, grasslands, trees, and floral beds. Air brimming with a fiery glance, Kissing her belo......

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Categories: benumbing, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's Final Version Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections) in RIMBAUD Œuvres......

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Categories: benumbing, analogy, color, sound, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's the Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's " The Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" The Vowels " in the Paul Verlaine (first version) copy in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris ......

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Categories: benumbing, color, magic, metaphor, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
The Abyss
...My grieving heart is powerless to quell the rigors of life in this world that I dwell haunted by hate for having loved too well, I don’t know what this journey will foretell. And now I suffer a......

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Categories: benumbing, dark, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxv
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXV IF you pull a long face Neither side in tug-of-war giving way Pull in the name of the Populace Neither side will lose face e'ven if they bray But if you......

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Categories: benumbing, america, anti bullying, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
...Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber, Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number. I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood, Conniving w......

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Categories: benumbing, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet
The Park Bench At Christmas
...Sitting on the frigid feeble symmetrical snow * * * Watching snowflakes amidst the afterglow * * On a permafrost park bench w......

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Categories: benumbing, christmas, snow, winter,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Original Mask of Alabaster
...A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze, Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes. Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass, I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frot......

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Categories: benumbing, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet

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