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Best Balefully Poems

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Premium Member Earthly Battle
I have a picture of a barren land,
a moldy tree devoid of fruit and leaves.
Above the moon amid clouds rise gloomily
as no rays reaches the...

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Categories: balefully, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Now and Then and Now Again
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Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's...

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Categories: balefully, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form: Monorhyme
The Novelist
'Twas the night of that particular evening whose noon-tide bade wondrous twilights and whose moon suffused in its consummated prophecy. Men perched themselves around balefully...

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Categories: balefully, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
Undeserving (For Trudy's Hopelessly Devoted Contest)
She is the most demanding cat who ever shared my home.
She stares at me so balefully till I do what she wants, 
And yet I...

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Categories: balefully, animals, devotion, funny, pets,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Middle-Age Spread
A bulging belly balefully belies
the vanished vigour of youth;
happens to most of us.

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19 November 2018...

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Categories: balefully, funny, growing up, how
Form: Kimo



Premium Member Rain
Rain is not an ordinary child.
Rain is wild.
As if wild is not enough
Rain is tough.
Her mother tucks her in with care,
looks again, Rain’s not there.
Her...

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Categories: balefully, funnymother, parents, mother, parents,
Form: Rhyme
The Brawl
For the moment I merely watched him
Running back and forth in his home
I am patient you see
I am full of time plenty
I am the sly...

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Categories: balefully, animal, cat, fantasy, funny,
Form: Free verse
Testudo Anima
I flew over a vastness of sand,
ancient ocean withdrawn,
dessicated desert,
neither eternal nor pathetic,
snow dusted, the foot of the Hindu Kush,
even now,
as we humans,
such knotted desperate...

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Categories: balefully, life, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Truth
I don't know how
I should begin
the truth about
this pain within.

It stings to breathe;
it smarts to grin.
This wretched fight
I cannot win.

It burns to laugh;
it aches to...

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Categories: balefully, angst, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Romance With An Image
Love aviated in him, so subtly,
but felt nothing less than a knife,
that had encroached upon him so balefully,
but he hadn’t felt so peaceful in life.

Every...

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Categories: balefully, dedication, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Nagging
Bad beaked beatle,biting 
badly like a busy bug on 
my bare black back and 
it began to bleed bile 
bitter blocks of 
blameless 
blood,balefully ...

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© Light Obi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: balefully, parody
Form: Free verse
Mean Mien Donald Trump
Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations

muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American

foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes...

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Categories: balefully, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Turbulence
We cannot calm the turbulence in the open sky.
We must bear with its disharmony as it passes us by ~Quote by poet

Tempestuous moods erupt within,...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: balefully, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Eve of Madness
Perched along a limb
in the darkening, mercurial eve,
the trickster hovers in mania.

Wingspan iridescent in the shadows,
he stands sharp in his observation
blending in to the dark...

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Categories: balefully, halloween, scary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs