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Best Atrophy Poems

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A Trophy's Atrophy
for it, the hot-blooded campus youth
   booed and cheered, fought and cheated;

      adrift in the hysteria of intramural...

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Categories: atrophy, nostalgia, places, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Atrophy
She'd had her round in Life's blighting furnace,
Where stealthy wear and age blurred her face.
Dents shot where dreamy dimples had grown,
Lightning smiles usurped by involuntary...

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Categories: atrophy, age, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Discord Ruins Harmony
Squabbling with words; spats in opposition
can bring about discord and suspicion
Christians should be able to live in harmony 
or their accord and union will atrophy

What...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: atrophy, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Corey Fazel
Koorosh the Great, Friend

All of my heart
One tear
Or one Monsoon
No amount, no grandeur
Can express the sorrow
Oh yes, I am sad, I am saddened
I am in...

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Categories: atrophy, beauty, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Grief
This solemn shore of atrophy called grief,
would sail on, sail on from this moor of thief -
while yesterday I smiled, and did achieve
today am stricken...

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Categories: atrophy, loss, me, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Perfect Day
The perfect day for poetry,
and thoughts that were inside of me -
were thoughts that I could not confine.
They flowed from me, a heady wine,
releasing me...

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Categories: atrophy, day, me,
Form: Rondeau
My Favorite Things As a Middle Aged Chick
Night sweats and crazy
Hot flashes and lazy
Mood swings and a body (?)
That looks pretty shoddy

Eating and bleeding and wanting to scream
These are a few of...

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Categories: atrophy, age, funny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Basketball Heads
Made quite an impression, it seems
On the chair I've been glued to so long
The indentation is an exact replica
Of my rear, hmmm, sounds like a...

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Categories: atrophy, future, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Message In a Bottle-2
Message in a  bottle

Here is my greetings and message to you all, my dear ones 
Who would be populating this earth again
After  my...

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Categories: atrophy, imagination, introspection, kindergarten, may,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To An Insidious Sensation
Beneath the translucent veil of placidity, emerged that sound
To all is pure evil forecasting the prelude of a prolonged agony
Of flashy tear drops falling from...

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© Guru Jad  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: atrophy, relationship, romance,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Poetry Soup
Poetry Soup

Evolution comes with a rage
To make decisions as I age
Discover with the use of words
To stir my brain or atrophy
Then write a line of...

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Categories: atrophy, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Warrior - a Cyberpoem
Across the shadowed byte desert, a lone warrior limped.
Impelled by a spirited misanthropy, he plied the
idle partitions of mind and thirst.
An orphaned amorist, passionate, but...

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© Uqhe Uqhe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: atrophy, analogy, computer, courage, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
To Masculinity
Some folks say that you’re toxic,
and destroying all the world.
Some folks say that you’re reckless,
and just want to feel up girls.
I think you’re like a...

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Categories: atrophy, culture, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Seeds of Promise
Same story told in sad famished pupils,
   Every effort given as hunger pangs thrive.
A mother lays her head pondering tomorrow,
   Wondering...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: atrophy, hope, life
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Remembering Spring
A pewter mirror cracks in veins of jade,
ensconced I've been in winter's house of drear.
Aback I'm taken, palpable my fear
to see my likeness in such...

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Categories: atrophy, metaphor, nature, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet

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