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Best Dammed Poems

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Silence of the Dammed
If others were aware, Oh shame
Hint nothing!
The heart is in the hand of a hacker.
 
Dare not share.
Fear retrobution, repremand
forlorn.

Act as one fortuitous.
Oh deception!
Specialize the...

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Categories: dammed, life, loss, mystery, passion,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Pricked By Love's Thorn
My nights have no rhythmic shadows on the wall
Our candle flame silhouettes no longer rise and fall
Our love cooled like dying embers without a spark
Filled...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dammed, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Realization
At what point do you realize
it’s all moving in the same direction -
in a flowing pulse that cannot be dammed, that;
collective hearts do march in...

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Categories: dammed, age, introspection, life, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legacy
In the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants
inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’
John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance,
some joined...

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Categories: dammed, angst, dark, destiny, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hourglass of Time
As I contemplate life
Through thick lenses glasses of the whiskey bottle
Is there life?
What is life, what is the lie, or even the truth?
Or is there...

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Categories: dammed, baseball, beautiful, childhood, christmas,
Form: Light Verse



A Right To Live
A right to free movement

A right to live

Where we want

Should be our perogative

We should not feel that we can not roam

Or decide to set down...

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Categories: dammed, dream, race, rights, uplifting,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Bit of Mid Week Humour
FRED

Fred the farmer he bought a new tractor
The milk maid he wanted to attract her
He said you wanna ride 
So she jumped in beside 
Said...

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Categories: dammed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Black Friday, Dark Day
Black Friday, Dark Day

You are coming. 
I checked the ads. 
I am ready. 
Wait?

No one needs, 
anything. 
Homeless…
are on the streets. 
Vets, without care. 

Angel...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dammed, child abuse, childhood, christmas,
Form: Narrative
The Arrival of Sound
Once upon a long time,
The silence blanketed my world
Like snow covering an arctic forest.

The nooks and crannies of my days
Were filled with the wispy webs...

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Categories: dammed, environment,
Form: Blank verse
Blood Ties
BLOOD TIES
O Brother mine,
aeons, we bathe in fiery pits;
epochs, you quench your thirst,
from my wells of wisdom…
Broken by the mallet of Creation,
away you went.
Then came...

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Categories: dammed, africa, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Better Love Mercy---
People whom are haters, better love mercy
People who rape women and children
People who steal for false prosperity
Like minded sinners filling up hell
People whom are murderers,...

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Categories: dammed, appreciation, blessing, desire, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Contest We Don'T Need No Stinking Contests
Contests! good for building egos up

great for knocking creativity down

as I pore over words and sounds

to make my poetry jump off the page

to come alive...

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Categories: dammed, fun, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When I Saw Your Face
When I saw your face 
(it was then I knew, we would be together)

Clouds of grey, 
filled my day
With no hope, 
of finding  a...

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Categories: dammed, destiny, first love, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Curse of Black Beard
Down deep beneath fathoms icy keep, where deadmen’s
Scream in utter silences aquatic hell, amongst the devils
Graveyard of wreckage's carnage, there exists a ghostly harbor
Of phantom...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dammed, adventure, boat, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Valhalla-The Vikings-Part 1
In the bay of icy mists, the viking ghost ships arrive, sails set full ahead,
Crashing anchors rattle loose, plunging beneath the cold murky surf,
As the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dammed, adventure, history, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

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