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Best Direly Poems

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Premium Member September 1945
red rooftops appear to glow in rainy-day haze
lost in memories of pre-war bliss
     she looks up to watch them bleed

pain is...

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Categories: direly, longing, war,
Form: Free verse



A Cocktail of Kaleidoscope
(ALLITERATION)
Cows milked: mitigated mooing in the meadows then
Weaving on the warp, some workaholic women

Harvest of hapless halibuts on hooks
Bookish book-worms buried in books

A palomino and...

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Categories: direly, imagery, poems, writing,
Form: Alliteration
Grieving Goodbye
One step I go back, and
I see you holding my hands...
With a smile, walking down the lanes.
Yesterday I acquainted me in you
When your hands grabbed...

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Categories: direly, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
One Wish of a Refugee
We were free and safe
Facing the challenges of life
In much more desirable manner
We were at least happy
For the peace we were enjoying
On our land of...

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© Simon Amu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direly, home, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices


    prizes for the abstemious  for abstinence  chastity ?
        ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direly, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Tribute To Yasmin Khan
DO NOT FORGET

Your wired mind larger than Arabia
like a continent shrouded with beauty and rage,
I imagine you recalling the gush from Indian winds
the taste salted...

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Categories: direly, light, peace,
Form: Free verse
Epiphyte
This canopy has choked out the light 
making the forest of life redundantly obscure.
a coffin for my home; where trees form walls, 
confining me to...

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Categories: direly, visionary
Form: Concrete
Premium Member My Pc
Some day when I will lose my imagination
I will ask my PC to write a poem for me
It will write a sonnet on the rising...

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Categories: direly, computer, fantasy, imagination, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healing Grandmother's Earth
Could you more faithfully believe?

Your enemies 
probably do not sacrifice their first born children
right before they eat them

And they do not worship
big 
predative Jewish
and terrorizing...

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Categories: direly, allusion, earth day, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Beyond the Snows of Winter
BEYOND THE SNOWS OF WINTER

You go on ahead, my son,
I’ll catch up with you when the snow reaches the end of winter
You have your life...

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Categories: direly, father, father son, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Contest
Summer Storms

Summer brings floods of feelings to surface
An impressive time period done shown
Having light shine down completely around
Very warm with everything fully grown

There’s one piece...

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Categories: direly, life, rain, summer, rain,
Form: Quatrain
Am I Not Beautiful
I believe my mirror is not truthful
Because it says " i m not beautiful"

Really do wonder , what beauty actually is ?
Leaves no word in...

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Categories: direly, beauty, change, desire,
Form: Free verse
Permission From Poetry Soup
Permission From Poetry Soup

What we were trying to do was work out
Quirks of game and players not leaving any out
Of site or be left with...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direly, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Spoken Nails
Mud thickens direly as I sink in shame, 
Eternal devastations stride in liberty, 
Wearied by the gloom of difficulty, 
I sigh, but hope pensively in...

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Categories: direly, destiny, evil, friendship, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lost Report Card Down the Sewer Drain--
As a child I was walking home from school one day;
It was a rainy spray;
A direly day;
We have gotten our report cards;
As kids we were...

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Categories: direly, 4th grade, character, lost,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things