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Best Afflicted Poems

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The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: afflicted, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicted, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicted, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: afflicted, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflicted, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative



Mournfully, My Heart Bleeds
I've written of great longing while my teardrops flare
Rhyming lines of sorrow that were nested in my mind
Tomes of poetry that exposed the depth of...

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Categories: afflicted, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

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Categories: afflicted, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Her Brittle Hands
Another layer of lavender scented lotion
Rubbed in vehement laughter

A quelling of sadness
Covered up in mascara insanity
Livid strokes of feathered paintbrushes

Hoping to see the big picture

She...

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Categories: afflicted, character, corruption, lost,
Form: Free verse
She Will Rise
Her dreams entangled in twisted ropes
perturbed fate of banished desires
innocence shriveled in raging fires
they haven't known her bubbling hopes.

Her existence exhausted in spiral cobwebs
blazing her...

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Categories: afflicted, analogy, inspiration, journey,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Frustrations
As our patience wears thin
We encounter the Moment
Where our frustrations
Boil to the surface

That deep part of us
We choose not to reveal
Even to ourselves
Is the legend...

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Categories: afflicted, emotions, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unconditional Acceptance
Feeling hurt owing to belied expectation
The earth entity floundered hither and thither
Spiralling gloom causing consciousness contraction
The wound cut deep since he relied upon his transgressor

Pain...

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Categories: afflicted, forgiveness, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member INTERCEPTION
INTERCEPTION

Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of black

Memoirs succumbing, alpha notes strumming
Hope dwindling midst each laboured breath
Dusky-eyed...

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Categories: afflicted, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Tell My Heart How To Write
In a world where we are constantly told how we should do this and that, 
we must learn to thank them for their opinions…but, to...

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Categories: afflicted, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest...

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Categories: afflicted, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Diamonds Forever My Love In This World
Diamonds forever sparkle deeply as a treasured jewel
Dawning and revealing pure in a fresh breath of light 
Shining on warm gentle bonds inside one’s very...

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Categories: afflicted, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things