Best Digression Poems
Progression DigressionProgression Digression
We forge ahead little by little
We accelerate the moderninities of life
We call it progress...
but what are we progressing towards?
to do what is right?
to an easier life?
...
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Categories:
digression, deep, future, people, technology,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost of Chanukah Past - a Brief DigressionRussian melodies are
haunting
The USSR has
faded into dust
The menorah lights
shine as usual
but tiimes have
certainly changed
As Tolkien pointed...
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Categories:
digression, fantasy
Form:
A DigressionThe rez
the years
Where is she and
what happened to her?
I agree she is not Lumbee
the bastards have been defeated...
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Categories:
digression, fantasy,
Form:
Blank verse
Destiny's DigressionElegant smiles concealing the pain,
limping wise men refusing the cane,
sinister soldiers surprising their shame.
Priceless pawns purged into war, but in vain,
for the fall of the king marks the start of a new game.
My path is different, I will...
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Categories:
digression, childhood, forgiveness, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet DigressionDance
Yet we didn't fall off
The earth still spherical
Killing me with magic
Vibes to show you off
Should you be cynical
It's allergic
A move always lasts too
Allow it to flow through your blood
The reverberation supersedes the soul
Step one,step two
And you are lost to the...
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Categories:
digression, home, muse, passion, song,
Form:
Free verse
King of All He Sees - A Royal Digression1066
Sad day on Senlac Hill.
King Harald takes an arrow
Through his royal eye.
And that Norman bastard,
Duke William, steals his crown.
Though it’s embroidery,
Not tapestry, tells the tale,
He finds himself the king of all he sees.
1297
Lord Warden of the March.
His bones well-sheathed
In tightly leathered muscle,
He...
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Categories:
digression, allegory, history,
Form:
Ballade
My Digression: Do Roses Always Bloom?Poetry is as works of art
Masterpieces or paintings
Exceeding exponentially esthetically
not slight or slanting. It says hello
And mon amour at the same time
How do you do and I love you
Combined this direction is my
Trajectory. Do roses always bloom?
Forgive my digression. Back...
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Categories:
digression, allusion, art, dream, earth
Form:
Free verse
A Brief DigressionJust a pinpoint of
light
in the darkness
only a gust of wind
We pass green
meadows
and taste the
cool waters
of the river
of life
Yet the ground
...
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Categories:
digression, allegory, angst
Form:
Ode
Philosophical DigressionI'm not a friend of poverty,
I actually perceive it's a mockery...
But I'm a friend of the...
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Categories:
digression, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form:
Free verse