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Best Betrayals Poems

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Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: betrayals, courage,
Form: Free verse



Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: betrayals, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Splitting Sunsets
Sometimes my soul 
resembles distant horizons, 
like burning stars 
abandoned between
  dusk and dawn.

When the 
     sky hangs 
as heavy...

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Categories: betrayals, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Might Have Been
As we age we regret words of anger and spite
That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid.
The remarks we thought clever or proved we...

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Categories: betrayals, heartbreak, introspection, loss, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Jewel Of Jinx - Depression Awareness

An alchemical raven's gray rhapsody awakens those cynical roses who
Breathe-in the ebony beams of blood-bathed sun, exhaling
Cacophonies that ricochet across these truthful horizons where, 
Depressive...

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Categories: betrayals, anger, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Abecedarian



The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand...

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Categories: betrayals, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Keeper of Secrets
I am the Keeper of Secrets
I have heard all men's tales
Of murder, adultery
And other betrayals

Their stories come to me
Through back doors at night
Their compromised souls
Caught...

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Categories: betrayals, dark, destiny, fantasy, self,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Poetic Justice

A poet's flowing poems uplift the souls
     of men and sing of legends small and great,
     of...

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Categories: betrayals, betrayal, hate, poems, poets,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member A Tortured Spirit
A tortured spirit, earth bound wreaths in agony,
trapped within human body, desperate for freedom.
To be able to escape and hide from other's sight,
to escape the...

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Categories: betrayals, cry, dark, depression, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Broken Wings Unsheathed
Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing...

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Categories: betrayals, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let My Tombstone Read
Here lies a women dead before her time
Struck down by guided arrows dipped in rhyme
A wound that first was sweet but turned to vile 
It...

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Categories: betrayals, betrayal, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Crack House of the 13 Gables
I wrote a great book, part memoir, part novel
Shopped it around, I ain’t too proud to grovel
Got kicked upstairs to a big publishing head
He invited...

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Categories: betrayals, angst, humor, humorous, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remnants of Eden
Remnants of Eden United

Scattered shards, remnants of Eden,
Gathered to a ring of bright topaz
A simultaneous soliloquy of intentionality
At the crux of intersecting avenues,
Indivisible solidarity and...

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Categories: betrayals, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to...

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Categories: betrayals, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Sat and Pondered
I sat and pondered the things I’d like to forget.
There have been some bad times -
Lost love, both romantic and familial,
betrayals by a few I...

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Categories: betrayals, life, memory, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry

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