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Best Deflects Poems

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Premium Member The Devil He Be a Wandering
The devil, he be a wandering,
Searching for a fool,
Someone easily persuaded,
To come under his rule.

Pride, deceit and unbelief,
Are the tools of his trade,
Planting seeds of...

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Categories: deflects, faith, religion,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: deflects, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Forgiveness a Noble Mindset
Forgiveness comes not from without,
Rather inward, born of understanding.
It's not an emotion given to shout,
This quiet strength never demanding.

Only a peaceful soul is calm, reflects,
A...

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Categories: deflects, forgiveness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Overworked Witches
What's a single mom, overworked witch to do?
School potlucks won't suck up fat vats of witch brew
Green goop soup disinfects science projects
Magic wand deflects coupon...

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Categories: deflects, funny, halloween, mom, school,
Form: Rhyme
World of White and Blue
Sea of blue, 
crags of white, 
bitter wind, 
majestic sight 

For this is world of white 
and blue 
white mountains of ice, 
blue sea salty...

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Categories: deflects, imagination, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Dance Divine
The dance divine 

The dance divine at play,
both reveals and conceals,
cyclic pleasure and pain,
deflects thoughts onto form;
life gift boon, becomes bane.

The dance divine at play,
where...

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Categories: deflects, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Have we seen God
Is not God a concept, till we see Him?
How will memorising scriptures assist?
Conditioned beliefs make our soul’s light dim.
Love alone is real and that’s life’s...

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Categories: deflects, god, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Simile Smile
Your eyes brighten, at the side of your lips
Charming bent
How sweet it is like morning sun and love
Joined for engagement
That curve on your cheeks
Is like...

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Categories: deflects, happiness, happy, love, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ensnared
(Another childhood poem.)



Filaments tightly woven,

a chrysalis cradles me,

deflects the dangers;

it is an armored womb,

bright and hard.

Loosely woven,

a web imprisons me;

struggles snare me firmly

in these threads.

What...

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Categories: deflects, allegory, angst, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Unfortunate Circumstance
My heart is being held prisoner
In her dungeon of coquettishness
She hasn’t fully rejected me
But my advances she coyly deflects

I haven’t given up all hope
She still...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deflects, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Automaton
If in these times we wane or waver
If those who question fall from favor
The consequence could not be graver
obscured is the terrible toll

Manipulation is slow...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deflects, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Joke Was On Him

Joke was on him

A lie can perpetuate with a blinding speed
Growing on the heels of shameful greed
If enough people believe a con-man's spiel
And blindly proceed...

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Categories: deflects, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Props For Our Pastor
props for our Pastor to honor him for his anointing
to give him encouragement in his Godly appointing
to be a bride to the church is a...

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Categories: deflects, dedication, faith, inspirationalgod, god,
Form: Ode
Bridge
Secrets of strangers,

a rotating beast of bangers',

a wobbling at least to show how to stumble,

a vanish less half-hat hung from the dread,

it is sonorous because...

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Categories: deflects, america, beach, change, good
Form: Blitz
Writer's Block
What is this strange constipation?
From a man who conducts litigation?
I cannot speak write or think,
my affect is simply to blink.

Like opposed magnets my pen deflects...

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Categories: deflects, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs