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Best Depleting Poems


Premium Member As Time Slips By
...Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as time turns red dawn to pink dusk once more;
 life’s tapestry fades as years so expand 
but love in the heart gives youth to restore
when ......

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Categories: depleting, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Colour of My Heart
...Now brown, the once-blue brook meanders down
To dams where sludge has chased beavers away
As species die, our Mother casts a frown
For Nature can’t control man or his way

From fracking, tap......

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Categories: depleting, nature, pollution,
Form: Sonnet
Silhouetted Stagnant Shadows
...Silhouetted Stagnant Shadows


Stagnant shadows of night sequestered slaves in sight
Faces fading in fright as the fear feeds the lethargic light
Silhouettes of love in plight demons dancing in ......

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Categories: depleting, longing, lost love, sad
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 25
...The shield riders heading over the Dunlaven bridge,
They ride as swift as the wind,
already their weapons were ready,
they did glint, not, in the deepening shadow.
Ride to your fate Valkyrie,
sh......

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Categories: depleting, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Believe the Facade of a Narcissist-No More
...Mirror, mirror on the wall ~
don't let me fall for a narcissist's words
for fear I'll find myself tangled in the web
of silk threads cunningly spun to lure me in. 

You might take those words to......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depleting, anti bullying, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Invitation
...
I do it often,
drag a perfect morning
in through the front door of myself
and make it a reluctant guest,
replace its colors with my own
dour palette, drown out
its soft voice with noise.

I......

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Categories: depleting, anxiety, morning, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Lost Flight of Hope
...A spaceship called Hope... made from future's grand mist, 
is perched upon a launch pad of manic chemicals, and loss.
With stun gun emotion, mother earth regurgitates.  
5-4-3-2-1
Her metal finge......

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Categories: depleting, allegory, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hear Earth's Gentle Moaning
...We go about our lives as if with no clue
that all around us things on earth are dying
as other “great’ activities we pursue.

Good habits should mean more than simply trying.
For many crimes......

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Categories: depleting, earth,
Form: Terza Rima
Flights of the Butterfly
...Flights of the Butterfly


Looking at the butterflies dancing decoratively divine
Their wings tickle & flutter the acoustical ambient air
Enthralled by their ethereal beauty as they intertwi......

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Categories: depleting, butterfly, love, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
A Painful Tribute To My Earth
...A Painful Tribute to my earth
Before me you were
I am here and you are
Thus both of us are together now.
Alas, I will be gone and you will go on!
You are giving me endlessly
And spreading on me......

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Categories: depleting, earth,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Autumn Symphony
...Autumn arrives with nature’s kaleidoscope,
creates chromatic panorama motifs,
changing fast under the azure sky,
where wispy cloud wafts with hued lattice.

At the fringe of the fawn mea......

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Categories: depleting, autumn, music, nature,
Form: Free verse
Second Eden
...I bow my head Your Majesty, Thou reign on heaven and earth
I wonder whence I look around to see Thy marvelous craftsmanship.
I exalt Thee considering how great Thou art and how beautifully for my m......

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Categories: depleting, environment, universe,
Form: Free verse
Stagnant Pollution
...Shards of listening sunflowers, she's trapped in the gardens reflection,
contaminated shattered seedlings was not the topiary's intention,
inside the stamen, her severed particles, caus......

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depleting, earth, nature, pollution,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member I Am Not His Property
...I wake up with a great startle.

My Obama EarthTribe CoOperative WinWin GlobalVillage Dream
was merely my hibernation.
I dreamed we share richly valued properties from healthy-wealthy African Eld......

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Categories: depleting, body, culture, dream, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cigarette
...The earth is a cigarette,
The human race the lighter.
Is there a way to save it,
With millennials as the fighters?

The grim reaper draws a puff,
And the withdrawing end is acid rain,
Deforest......

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Categories: depleting, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry