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Best Calamity Poems

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Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: calamity, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Calm
Calm is the silt beneath the waves
The measured heartbeat of the brave
It is the fragile petal born
From gardens of pernicious thorns
A velvety cadence under
The jagged...

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Categories: calamity, care, introspection, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Let Me Own the Night
Let me own the Night 

Let the others play on bright sun-filled days,
in song and merriment, play on.

Let me own the shadows that seep into...

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Categories: calamity, allusion, metaphor, morning, muse,
Form: Free verse
Reflecting Ripples
I stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee,
No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality…
Branches droop to ice-cold...

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Categories: calamity, abuse, conflict, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member aching sky -
I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
        beneath the weeping opal skies
       ...

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Categories: calamity, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Power of One
The Power of One

Slowly shadows devour the day’s light,
The silhouette of fear draws breath 
From the soul left gasping,
A firestorm of fury gathering,
Like mists of...

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Categories: calamity, courage, hope, power, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stoicism is the Key
In silence, when darkness 
envelopes the sky,
unlock the glass windows 
of your mind, 
forgive the stars
that veiled their silver,
for it is in times of 
confusion...

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Categories: calamity, feelings, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: calamity, anger, conflict, fear, irony,
Form: Political Verse
To Stupid To Care
I've dropped my pen, calamity,
I write too much profanity,
it makes people act angrily,
yet I walk around quite happily.

I'm aware I speak like I don't care,
and...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calamity, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Pages - a Shape Poem
  THE NEWS 


____________________________________________________________
Life Defined by Moments Blindsided
written by The Broken Hearted

Read the news today. There is blues      ...

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Categories: calamity, suicide,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Vixen of the Mist
 Wind-driven, deceptive, mysterious,
cries vixen's pulsating, debauchery
with haunting arias, mesmerizing!
The lighthouse, fearlessly, captivated,
by siren's symphonic orchestrations 
shines brighter, exclaiming calamity!
She cautions vigilant navigators...
fog's mirage masquerades...

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Categories: calamity, imagination, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: calamity, abuse, betrayal, conflict, deep,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Real Cliffhanger
It was tranquil sultry August, and the birds were singing,
The insects were all buzzing, and toad frogs were springing.

And I was deep in the mountains,...

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Categories: calamity, adventure, bird, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Beauty At Its Best
Faith is like a flower that grows fervently 
Love is like a rose that glimmers majestically
It's like a tender dove that flies so beautifully,
For it...

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Categories: calamity, beautiful, blessing, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Life Is War
Life is war

Life is war....
we go to battle every single day,
feeling more and more like castaways,
in this ever churning sea


Oh, oh, life is war....
with each...

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Categories: calamity, conflict, courage, endurance, future,
Form: Lyric

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