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Best Back Away Poems

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Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: back away, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member What Is This Dance
What is this dance that we do?
First you spin me; I twirl with delight
Captivated by your attentive gaze
Then you back away as I move toward...

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Categories: back away, confusion, dance, relationship,
Form: Lyric
The Flame of Our Name
Do come, my love, for I insist!
Within the darkest crevices of time, we fight, we cry, I die
As vision gives us knowledge, we descend farther...

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Categories: back away, adventure, beautiful, change, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Elephant

We have great animals on this grand Earth
of varied size- they live on land or sea.
Domestic ones, we love for all their worth;
like, family we...

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Categories: back away, animal, emotions, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
For Feelin' So Blue
Friends humor and play me
(They know I'm chra-zee)
Patsy sings blue
God I miss you

So lone-lee now
Never knew how
without you to cope
Losing false hope
that keeps me stumbling
nowhere,...

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Categories: back away, bereavement, wife,
Form: Couplet



Dancing In the Mirror
as i am dancing around my tiny bathroom, in my short shorts

i stop for just a fraction of a moment to look in the mirror
i...

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Categories: back away, 9th grade, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
Dance Around the Fire
I was singed from the fire to the point of burning
couldn't escape from the heat 'til I  reached my time of learning
that the way...

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Categories: back away, introspection, life, people, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bossy Cow
Daisy was such a bossy old cow,
one who desired to rule the herd.
Her opinions were so highbrow
the others dared not moo a word!
 
Daisy would...

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Categories: back away, conflict, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Most Noble Act
The most noble act in all the world, I think
To back away from war on the brink
Seeking peaceful concession
With reparation
Restoring
Peace
Endorsing
Calm separation
Mutual declaration
Leaves both nations prospering...

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Categories: back away, how i feel, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Insane

Insane

Defiantly I admonish you to just leave me alone,
Stop following me incessantly like a rowdy foe.
How forcefully must I tell, you've lost your soul,
Your sinister...

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Categories: back away, evil, mental illness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Immaculate Conception
We are each
a “Little Light Beloved”
so told to me in a dream~

each a blessed spark 
released – far greater
than any Devil would
have man consider, let...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back away, christian, christmas, faith, inspirational
Form: Free verse
In Awe
in awe of wonderment
suspended
where heart beats linger
it has been said
"the air tonight is so thick with angst"
but of what, will or will not
happen tommorow

fingers rapidly...

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© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back away, love,
Form: Free verse
Look At You and Smile
I smile when i look at you
And hope you smile back
When i see you finally do
I wake up and find the real facts
You dont feel...

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Categories: back away, love, me, me, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought You Would Write Without Me
I am sitting in hovel writing nothing 
For the hovel has taken every last drop of energy.
Hey, wait. Is that an ant?
An ant in the...

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Categories: back away, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bossy Cow Lol
Daisy was a bossy cow
How she loved to rule the herd
The other cows detested her
Yet they dared not moo a word

Daisy would moo and moo...

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Categories: back away, fantasy, farm, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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