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Best Balks Poems

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Premium Member Hereafter
Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Categories: balks, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Poor Little Orphan Kids, With No Moms Or Fads
I like the thought of evolution
That a fish could outsmart god
Show him something new and bold
Like a human is something odd

I guess that’s just how...

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Categories: balks, funny, life, people, emo,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Petrichor
"Petrichor "



Two minds 
have made an entrance
magnetic bodies electric
minions babble 
it’s just wasted white noise
sandpaper against back stories hit
The Wall of Wasted Time
He’s read most...

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Categories: balks, desire, for her, for
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Plea, Heal Me After All That I Have Been Through
The Plea, Heal Me After All That I Have Been Through

You a heavenly body. So sweet
Your kisses would make this heart skip a beat,
Paying you...

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Categories: balks, art, deep, feelings, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Advent of the Fallen
Written: August 24, 2023
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In the realm where fallen souls reside,
Where darkness thrives and hope subsides,
There, among the shadows deep,
Dwarf, hopeful lights from the forest floor...

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Categories: balks, analogy, appreciation, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Sickly Vine, Thriving Vine
Unjustly stymied, down by law,


The good citizen balks, throws his -


Monkey wrench into the grinding gears of society:


"They all be damned."


But freed, aided, 


The good...

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Categories: balks, freedom, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Total Destruction
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Categories: balks, caregiving, dedication, devotion, education,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Slow, the Flow of Time's Waning Hands
Slow, The Flow Of Time's Waning Hands

On nights that I can not slow walk
through dreams that may, my sad soul heal
With such interruption heart balks
at...

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Categories: balks, creation, dark, feelings, life,
Form: Sonnet
The Bitter Batter Baker and the Badder Baker's Batter
So the better bitter batter wants a better bitter bat
But the better bitter batter baker wants to break his cat
'Cause the badder batter baker bakes...

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Categories: balks, fun, humor, humorous, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On All Hallow's Eve
On All Hallows Eve, darkness balks
The fields are full of crisp cornstalks.
The boyo's have egged the paper birch
and left their lassies alone at church.
A red...

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Categories: balks, holiday,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Can You Push God Away
Sometimes we say things and hope God would do the opposite
Sometimes we say things out of anger
Sometimes we lost it and completely lost our head
But...

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Categories: balks, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Madrigal
Her feet knows the path
Seeing amongst stones
Curled, the grass wet swathe
And stars dry as bones

Into night she walks
Head laden, heart spilled
Her prices for stalks
Less than...

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Categories: balks, allegory,
Form: Verse
Age Is But a Page
You frowned at that fraudster called age, 
The fiend that lets no one sleep light, 
In book of life age is a page. 

A child...

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Categories: balks, age, death, father, life,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Language Or the Kiss
He seems to love the sound of his own voice,
and if he does not get his way, he balks.
A hug from him would make his...

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Categories: balks, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reindeer Strike
Rudolph's nose shines frosty bright,
Relations will be cool this night
He raps a hoof on Santa's door
And says we feel we should earn more

If we're to...

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Categories: balks, christmas, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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