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Best Chipping Poems

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Equality At the Hands of Men
Man so mighty and wise
still has to define this
that another living being's life
has the same value as his 

Boasted, brazened
written in stone
raised above 
these highest...

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Categories: chipping, history, humanity, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Art of Understanding
You so desperately 
Want to be understood
So I wonder
Why
Why do you
Hold back
So much of yourself

I see him digging
Chipping at your edges
Wondering what's behind the facade
He...

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Categories: chipping, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years...

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Categories: chipping, depression,
Form: Prose
Premium Member It Is Finished
The poet mines the cave for treasures sought;
  its walls encrusted with events long past.
Chipping away to find that buried thought,
  emerging with...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chipping, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Gave Me Wings
With your cruelty
You turned my heart to stone
Then with skillful hands
You crafted it with your chisel 
Chipping away small pieces 
Sculpting life like wings
Providing the...

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Categories: chipping, beauty, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eating Words
Eating Words

On my way to the gym to shape my well nourished body
I travel a whole Universe of madness from leafy suburbs
high walls electric fences...

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Categories: chipping, humanity, poetry, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope
Anticipation
While culture strengthens
In love of poetry,
In give and to take
An exchange of view.

While together
A common cause,
We work so hard
To understand.

In this way
Unified
A small task.

Chipping
Away.

Hate.

© Harry...

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Categories: chipping, hope, world,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Castle In My Mind
In this castle
Created in my mind
A tree,
This tree
A scar
A jagged one 
Still healing
Blood dripping
Forms a path

Two watchmen
Chipping away
Away at it's skin
Creating holes
To suck out blood
Warning...

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Categories: chipping, allusion, anxiety, beautiful, deep,
Form: Free verse
Heaven Sent
Been so broken down, baby
Isolated, shuttered,
Dilipidated; in disrepair

Been so sad and empty
Before you, I didn't wanna care 
I had lost all hope and drive
To continue...

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Categories: chipping, angel, blessing, for him,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Cracked Buddha
Long, long ago Thai monks covered up
a golden Buddha in clay to hide it
from marauding armies and their greed.

It had been forgotten until recent years,
overlooked...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chipping, fear, hope, introspection, journey,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mood Swings - Collaboration with Ink Empress

There is no escape from strange morning whims, 
when irritation causes numbness in my limbs.
Dawn has become an unwelcome nemesis, 
rage for sunrise an uncontrollable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chipping, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Erase Me

Chalkboard solitude eats at my mind
My fingers leave scars in the written words
And behind me a herd of sheep cries out
As the remaining words run...

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Categories: chipping, conflict, dark, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scenes From Home
** SCENES FROM HOME **

The curtain wafts on an open-window’s breezing air, like liquid 
Blue in the room, bringing beauty with magic’s tracing

The woman with...

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Categories: chipping, animal, family, fantasy, home,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Golfer Talking Trash
I’m cool, warmed up, loose. I’m gonna crack this ball straight down the fairway 
all the way to the white post, clean and straight. Yeah.

I’m...

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Categories: chipping, courage, fantasy, funny, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ode To the Cotswold Hills
The Cotswolds are a bunch of hills in rural England's heart
They're green and rolling, full of sheep that frolic, bleat and fart.
People come from far...

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Categories: chipping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs