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Best Brink Of Disaster Poems

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Premium Member Brink of Disaster
“Wars and rumors of wars” – the Bible says
That being so, then we should not be surprised
When selfishness and greed are bubbling over
When covetous, malicious,...

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Categories: brink of disaster, perspective, political, power,
Form: Blank verse



Brink of Disaster
Brink of Disaster

What all has come totally over me
Chills on arms am starting to see
Heard another song sung and played
My mind went of into space...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brink of disaster, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Forgotten By Tomorrow
She stands at the edge of the precipice,
looking down towards her future.
The last tears that she will ever cry,
falling from her eyes, 
then falling into...

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Categories: brink of disaster, blue, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Strenght For the Journey
I asked for strength for the journey
But its in the journey I find the strength
I hear lost souls cry out
These are more than just words...

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Categories: brink of disaster, dedication, faith, funeral, funny,
Form: Carpe Diem
Quiet Waters
Streams of blue fluid 
Flows downward 
As fragile carcasses decay 
Without a peep of a sound

We’re in the brink of disaster… 

Who invited such fear...

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Categories: brink of disaster, angst, confusion, dark, death,
Form: Free verse



Just By These Words
The effects the event the horizon the before and then the after the 
miracle of life the hatred of death the 

armor of military ensemble...

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Categories: brink of disaster, black-african amerpeople, me, people,
Form: Rhyme
Old Man On the Inside
Consuming time is hard
Harder than many people think
Your mind begins to wonder
Pushing boredom to the brink

The brink of disaster
Mind and body begin to work
Motionless your...

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Categories: brink of disaster, life, workbody, time,
Form: Free verse
Why the Willow Weeps
From seed to sapling it grew non-stop
On the tall majestic Mountain’s top
It spread its boughs and sank its roots
Deep into it’s fertile boots
But fear it...

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Categories: brink of disaster, absence, adventure, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The Two Winding Roads
The Two Winding Roads
        (Alice Advincula)

Sprawled before us in our life journey,
are two winding roads towards eternity.
One is...

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Categories: brink of disaster, bible, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Dont Love You
a drink from the bottle 
that held my youth
a clink in the glasses
a melded brew

on the brink of disaster
a welded chain hereafter
the staining ink and...

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Categories: brink of disaster, memory, recovery from..., rose,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voices
Voices


angry voices saying words that could doom the people,
playing with the hint of an apocalypse like name calling at school.

I will shoot down your planes...

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Categories: brink of disaster, anger, peace, political,
Form: Free verse
Saro-Wiwa
My tears run from the coastline
To the Atlantic
My grief is fueled
By the flare of oil wells
My hope is dashed
By the disaster of oil spills
And my...

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Categories: brink of disaster, cry, death, freedom, political,
Form: Free verse
Let Them Go
You ever been surrounded in a room, but felt you were all by yourself?

No one was ever on your level, you felt high like a...

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Categories: brink of disaster, life
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Come, Stand With Me
Come, stand with me on the brink of disaster
Surveying the bedlam which lies at our feet,
And wonder what we might have done different,
Our future? ...

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Categories: brink of disaster, change, future, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Mr. World
What'll I say, about yesterday,
something wrong, no longer seems the same,
what'll I say, about today,
I wonder why no one will take the blame, 
so her...

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Categories: brink of disaster, death, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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