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Best Deconstructed Poems

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My Grains, Deconstructed
This time around, I will not scatter these grains
to land where the weeds might choke them.
This time around, I will collect these kernels
and take them...

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Categories: deconstructed, growth, introspection, sun,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Deconstructed Lilith
"The Deconstructed Lilith"




Decomposing from a past
left forgotten and buried 
under the weakness of the first man banished

from 
Her Forest,

She rests, bound in the arms of...

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Categories: deconstructed, dark, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: deconstructed, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: deconstructed, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Walls Make Bad Neighbours
Walls Make Bad Neighbours

‘All in all we are just bricks in the wall’ deconstructed by Pink Floyd
        ...

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Categories: deconstructed, grief,
Form: Free verse



Hurricanes
All you do 
All you say
All you write
In the jasmine garden
Is a frenzied drum
Bludgeoning me to dumb

Intensely numb
I feel
As I reel

Yes
As you come
Rising on tides
Passion...

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Categories: deconstructed, anger, angst, hope, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Oh Beautiful Gypsy
Oh beautiful Gypsy,
I see you there, in amber campfire mist.
On the banks of a crystalline pool, a bronze skinned lovely moving with intoxicating rhythm to...

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Categories: deconstructed, beauty, celebration, leaving, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unconditional Love Conditions
In times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why

	What matters most seems to be toilet paper

Loops and loops of the stuff and...

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Categories: deconstructed, community,
Form: Free verse
Eautoscopy
Last night I slipped into an introspective dream
witness of a strange extracorporeal experience
the whole me deconstructed to its raw materials
Dead myself was found a bright...

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Categories: deconstructed, deep, dream, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being Rich Is So Much a Bore
No greasy treats from chippie van;
I have my starch now au, gratin
with blasted, deconstructed bass,
petits pois, served; in Demi tasse.

No pint of best down at...

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Categories: deconstructed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I Meme, Therefore I Am
forgot what I had set out to remember
when my deconstructed self
discovered there was no authentic anything
saw through it all every granule
how we became the unwitting...

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Categories: deconstructed, crazy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Theatre of the Absurd - Fusion
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a...

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Categories: deconstructed, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space
Dear lord, what have I become? 
Reduced from a hulking mass
to the pulp in my love's drink
or maybe the orange itself squeezed dry

Ah, but while...

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Categories: deconstructed, journey, life, love, love,
Form: Quatern
I'D Rather Leave
If I ever thought staying would hurt you
more than my absence,
I'd turn my crying eyes from you and walk away.
I didn't come here to cause...

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Categories: deconstructed, absence, change, cry, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Gory Glory Allegory
The flaming heavens drip downwards to scold my rotten hairs. My boots are drenched in the tar that is overflowing my world. I might be...

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Categories: deconstructed, allegory, character, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse

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