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Best Chain Reaction Poems

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Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: chain reaction, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chain reaction, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Lessons Learned From Trees
"A woodland path in the dappled sun, hushed and quiet "

              ...

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Categories: chain reaction, allegory, introspection, sun, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Massacred Nation
The year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives

The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go

Us Lakota...

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Categories: chain reaction, native american, war, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Not That Complicated.
Life is so short and grand, 
to time, we are one grain of sand. 
In our lives we carry around so much pressure, 
this is...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chain reaction, hope
Form: Rhyme



Fighting Depression With Your Yellow
Your yellow appears during
the darkest days
as you feel the black set in. 
Being aware of your 
instincts causes a chain reaction 
that bleeds into nothingness,
blended...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chain reaction, depression, suicide, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Stone's Throw
A Stone’s Throw

A change in the river by only one stone
in someone’s life maliciously thrown.
 
Chain reaction, stillness disturbed.
Like ruffled feathers peace is perturbed.

The mirror...

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Categories: chain reaction, anger, feelings, life, water,
Form: Rhyme
Magnetism
for you are this longing 
gravitational force-
you steal my senses and
secure me to the deepest
parts of your existence. 

             ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chain reaction, love, passion,
Form: Verse
Faithfullness
Faithfullness; what is that here?
Is it a happiness once a year
The answer to our fears
When we seek it is it hard to find
Is it a...

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Categories: chain reaction, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member ''Oh, Lyric Man''
I have an idea for a contest,
   A really amazing form called Blitz;
Oh, we poets would write for you with zest,
  ...

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Categories: chain reaction, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Addicted To Hypocrisy
Heroin lies the irony — 
Segregated babies are weaned on
milk-of-the-poppy
doctrine of Equality

Emancipated notion on the nod:
A false sense of freedom
is taught in every syringe-scattered schoolyard

Children...

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Categories: chain reaction, identity, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Catch the Wave
I started a wave

Right where I was at

Out in the open

I raised up my hands

Over my head

Then I let them fall

Someone down the street 

Well...

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Categories: chain reaction, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dancing On Thin Ice
the heart is always right
unless this time it’s wrong
and this time is not like all the others

this game he must not lose
too much at risk
no...

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Categories: chain reaction, future, introspection, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What a Tangled Web We Weave
You seemed so harmless and small at the time,
a simple means of avoiding an inconvenience.
Afterwards, I breathed a sigh of relief and went on 
my...

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Categories: chain reaction, angst, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Death Speaks
Death Speaks
As I walk through the valley of death bullets penetrate and opens up my chest.
 I am slumped on the cement with scatter brain...

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Categories: chain reaction, brother, character, community, death,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs