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Best Charred Poems

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Categories: charred, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Christmas Night Reflections
Fluttering beneath the newly cut
Festive green hollies,
Decked out with heaped drapes
Of freshly fallen snow,
A bold little red breasted Robin,
Busily searching,
Cheerfully hops to and fro.

Darting between...

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Categories: charred, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charred, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ba Ba Bad Shepherd Boy
Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...

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Categories: charred, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rain Dance
rain dance

Evil takes his victory lap
while ashes like confetti fall.
But demons stay their hands mid-clap,
now doubting they’ve won, after all...

For on the charred and war-stained...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charred, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Dreams of Paradise
Sunless days under artic charred skies

frozen rain pelting, making me cry

harsh north winds, chill to the bone

why do I even call this place home?

Dreams of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charred, love, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire
Fire destroyed my childhood home one dark night,
Inside were all my precious girly things;
Raging, devouring gold flames billowed bright,
Everything gone- I wish dolly had wings.

It...

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Categories: charred, fire,
Form: Sonnet
Timberland
Wide the mirrored water stretched,
licking green upon the pointed pines, limbs sweeping low and cool.

The creek meandered, soft giggles escaping mossy rocks
where polliwogs swam, nearly,...

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Categories: charred, betrayal, crush, first love,
Form: Free verse
Mirror Mirror
I look in your eyes 
what do I see
A shell of myself
who I used to be
   A minuscule fragment 
of who I was...

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Categories: charred, hate, image, mirror, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted
A hole in the head shooting pain trembles
nightshades coldly down the spine
a soul lost in the land of the living
carried away in darkness
flying inside dark...

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Categories: charred, animal, dark, dream, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free Falling
"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding...

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Categories: charred, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Utterly Despicable
Isn't it about time that the West and NATO stepped in
To put a stop to brutal aggression by Vladimar Putin
Men bound and shot, with their...

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Categories: charred, conflict, death, evil, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living In the Dark
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.

Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see...

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Categories: charred, anxiety, dark,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Reflections of a Broken Mirror
In shadows deep, where childhood fears reside,
A father's wrath, a son's tormented life,
A torrent of abuse, a soul's despair,
A question lingers, heavy in the putrid...

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Categories: charred, abuse, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Knotty Dogs
the pair stood together by a warm hearth
strong andirons of wrought steel

shared log, a charred remnant

(7/30/2020 – ‘00 Destination 53 DMS)...

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Categories: charred, allusion,
Form: Kimo

Book: Reflection on the Important Things