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Best Burn Your Bridges Poems

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Premium Member Never Forgotten
I will never forget you ...
   each one I love ... gone for Heaven above
      my sister left...

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Categories: burn your bridges, grief,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Mistakes - Am I a Fake
What to look for?
Where do errors lie?
Are they in the eye of the beholder
or do they lie?

I believe I’m a poet,
a prophet of paraphrase,
a swindler...

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Categories: burn your bridges, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Towers and Bridges
III

But, of course, I had no dizzying towers                 ...

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Categories: burn your bridges, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bonfires
Some things in life you cannot fix,
so we burn blemished bridges.
Throw leftovers into bonfires,
watching silent embers blaze in
grandiose gold and orange flames.
Wait, as toxic smoke...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burn your bridges, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Conflict
Some say “it’s better to have love and lost than never love at all”
They also say “if it was meant to be it will come...

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Categories: burn your bridges, conflict,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member A Free Spirit
Back pack hangin' off my bony hips. . .
I'm off to see the world, on foot with thumb. . .
Gotta keep movin'. . . race...

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Categories: burn your bridges, adventure, life
Form: Quatrain
Wisdom From the Heart
Don't ever miss a moment Don't waste time on unnecessary tears
Hold each day like you own it,
before You know it those days will turn to...

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Categories: burn your bridges, child, daughter, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
But With the Evil, Came the Good
All turned down to the worst
as the children lost innocence,
as the bums drank their last breath away,
as the man eating sharks finding their way,
to the...

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Categories: burn your bridges, bullying, cancer, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words Inspirational and Wise
"In my life thus far I have acquired wisdom
that I am going to share with youth of today
so here goes, best take notes . ....

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Categories: burn your bridges, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Hits and Misses
7/4/16


Got to take care of business
From the start to the finish

Hits and misses
Above below and on the ridges

An unbelievable amount are religious
And superstitious

How much evidence...

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Categories: burn your bridges, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Infrastructure
We cross our bridges
When we come to them.
We burn our bridges behind us.
Why don't we just
Burn our damn bridges
When we get there?
Saves & lot of...

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Categories: burn your bridges, abortion,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Wasteland
It’s like swimming on a sea of glass,
Trying to get rid of my past.
It’s like breathing on the moon,
A repetitive doom.
Haunted by the guilt,
Paralyzed by...

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Categories: burn your bridges, loss, pain, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Do You
Do your roses bloom
Where your garden grow
Do the flames grow brighter 
Under the mistletoe
Do you hear my heart beats 
When I kiss your lips
Do you...

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Categories: burn your bridges, allusion, desire, growth, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Match Sticks
Making match sticks from the bridges
We haven’t yet burned.
Making match sticks to burn the bridges
We haven’t yet burned.
So busy with drinking cocktails,
sweating sex in hotel...

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Categories: burn your bridges, adventure, culture, identity,
Form: Free verse
Free My Mind
Free My Mind

My Mind tells me no more
My Mind tells me one more time
My Mind tells me I'm smarter then this
My Mind tells me no...

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Categories: burn your bridges, abuse, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs