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Best Demises Poems

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Premium Member Until the Sun Rises
No trick or treaters on the street
     they're all in bed now, getting sleep,
Candies piled high upon the floor
  ...

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Categories: demises, autumn, family, halloween, leaving,
Form: Rhyme



Crave You
Oh how I crave you so deeply in my very being
Ive yet to know who you are yet but in awaiting our joyous meeting
Im still...

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Categories: demises, love,
Form: Free verse
A World Unexplored
Every day a world unexplored
Because of the invisible chains holding her hostage,
Away from anything she could have wanted.
A revolving world of ecstasy
But still a world...

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© J. Amorose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demises, addiction, death, drug,
Form: Sestina
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect,...

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© Matt Godek  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demises, america, angst, business, confusion,
Form: Epic
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped...

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Categories: demises, analogy, image, imagery, love,
Form: Sonnet



The Survivor's Curse
Wrath
Here I stand, upon
This hill, this hell of gunshots,
Pouring blood, whiskey,
Cadavers made into walls;
Unashamed generals lead
Color-adorned men
To untimely demises,
No food, no water,
But you must not...

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© J. Amorose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demises, death, farewell, innocence, soldier,
Form: Tanka
Men and Their Hearts
I, writer

All a fluster
Men, for my sake

Nail your hearts with a stake.
Or if that leads you discontented
Take you praises you invented

And shove them where no...

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Categories: demises, funny, love, satire, me,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member That's Everybody's Dream
Turn into a transparent cloud
and find your way to Heaven;
take a voyage into the unknown
with an excitement never allowed. 

Glance at the vast cosmos without...

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Categories: demises, adventure, anxiety, dream, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eve's Night Out
Where wicked things grow, 
She waits to be found,
Down a dark and dusty road,
Eve, a Pumpkin, dying on the ground,

Ravens pick away her eyes, 
She...

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Categories: demises, dark, death, goodbye, halloween,
Form: Verse
A Peculiar Life
A Peculiar Life


Nothing is miracle to me
Clock doesn’t belong to me
I’m always on my chime
Who made diurnal and nocturnal? 
You or your forefathers?
Or, progenitors or...

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Categories: demises, birth, life, truth,
Form: Concrete
Better Life For Us
His hands badly callused swollen with pain
Working hard in hopes of financial gain
He keeps our house warm
Shoes on our feet
Plenty of food on our table...

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Categories: demises, dad, life,
Form: Rhyme
Heavy
Heavy is the brow that sits the crown of power, 
fame or shame it is a wonder that we live with 
greed to want for...

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Categories: demises, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Be the One
Life is all about our own insight  
Creating joy ,smiles merging with delight
Get over , gear up and ready for fights 
Be the One...

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Categories: demises, introspection
Form: I do not know?
Yesterday Night
LET GO…you have nothing left to hold
Except this piece of gold
From my heart to yours…
The predator scores…
You’re lost and failure injects bad luck into you
And...

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Categories: demises, absence, adventure, beauty, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Stepping Downwards
Birds chirping roughly on an avocado tree
I curiously look upwards to see what could that noise be? 
Is it a sparrow or a mockingbird? 
It's plump and...

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Categories: demises, childhood, dedication, faith, family,
Form: Free verse

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