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Desolations Boulevard Ii
The bar door is ajar only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!

Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon 

Broken floating bloated 
dead...

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Categories: desolations, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse



Desolations Midnight Snow
It falls softly as it tumbles...
Down from the sky darkly...
Deep in the heart of midnight.

Not a deity stirs at this moment out of time.
As young...

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Categories: desolations, absence, abuse, addiction, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Woman of the Wasteland I of III
As I wash these dishes. 
I wash the wishes 
from these tired and ruined hands. 

I look out into the street 
with a thousand yard...

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Categories: desolations, abuse, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
World Justice: Ward, Jennifer
World Justice: Ward, Jennifer
2010


W to the J, J to the W
Voice crackle to the sound of unfairness
Question your place within the white world of today
Your...

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Categories: desolations, dedicationwrite, today, write,
Form: Ode
The Real Terror
The necktie wearers, and flag pin bearers
Combing arcane smiles 
With not one word out of place 
Colluded to recreate
Pearl harbor's reincarnate
History's wounds slashed by new...

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Categories: desolations, veterans day, violence, war,
Form: Blank verse



We Dream of Rain Ii
We dream of rain
In the setting sun 
in the season of one.
A wildest west and a withered crest, 
the coat of arms. 
A falcon and...

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Categories: desolations, adventure, anger, art, atheist,
Form: Free verse
The Melancholy and the Pale Machinery Part Iv
Of pale melancholy
And the infinite fall 
Of broken machinery 
Cast upon vast shores 
Decimation reservation

The prodigal son returns 
Jagged reigns of jaded egos 
Amber suns...

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Categories: desolations, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes Lost
Seem I'll walk this road alone

             the time of never looming forever. shivers...

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Categories: desolations, betrayal,
Form: Personification
Dominion I
the boulevard is desolate
as is the light that cracks bleeds 
runs here there everywhere! 

trash drafts like ghosts 
in the flicker of dying neon 
something...

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Categories: desolations, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Alabaster Skin
Fragile as alabaster white dry as your sin 
so sweet I want to caress to cradle and suffocate.

I feel that dry course texture of alabaster...

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Categories: desolations, abortion, abuse, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vaughan Phrasis When the World Sleeps- Recited
WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS 
This man Christ,very God and
very  man,this great design and ‘til 
the end of time,to make all sinners
‘mine’. To commemorate this
sacrifice...

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Categories: desolations, christian, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Beholding My Desolation
August 16, 2022 Scripture Meditations Based on Daniel 7-12

Key Verse – Daniel 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and...

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Categories: desolations, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
War Is a Curse
when war approaches, miles away 
it scuttles sideways like a crab
or creeps slowly, slowly and slowly
like a reptile, 
with holocaust claws;

a quick eye sees, 
a...

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Categories: desolations, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion Iii
Hello, Oblivion am I welcomed to thy realm?
            down into the darkness 
 ...

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Categories: desolations, adventure, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
No Man's Land a Warpath Not Desired
Wrath of man works not of the righteous God                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desolations, christian, confusion, freedom, love,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs