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Best Dispossess Poems

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Shores of Doom and Gloom In Your Faith
Shores of doom 
Needn’t engulf the space in your mind
Where without your will gloom
Can’t inhabit until faithless fleas and spiritual sleaze find

Room and space to...

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Categories: dispossess, poems,
Form: Free verse



Hurricane Hattie
HURRICANE HATTIE                       ...

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Categories: dispossess, earth, nature, rain,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Quote Me Rumi Forgiveness
You strike me down, though I am innocent,
And spent no time giving you reasons.
If my skin offends you, it's your soul's content.
It's buried in the...

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Categories: dispossess, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Plain Talk--Not
I view it as unseemly to use high-sounding language to make an impression.
I perceive it to be ostentatious to  marshal words vainglorious in succession.

It...

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Categories: dispossess, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melting Ice
Step out with me,
if you would be so kind,
on my melting island of ice.

Full-heated summer sun
feels good on our backs and shoulders
and faces turned down...

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Categories: dispossess, culture, earth, god, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



The White Knight
The White Knight
Intrepid and sly.
Has a screw loose. 
Aptly,
Rattling, obsessively.
Somewhere,
In his shattered avatar.
He believes that he is a god. 
A god of women.

Of needy goddesses...

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Categories: dispossess, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member New Year's Acrostic
J  ournals written_ let them be in your past
O  bsolete not an obstacle to future amassed
Y  earning now for future that is...

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Categories: dispossess, introspection, life, future, new
Form: Acrostic
Turmoil
Am i clutching at cobwebs in the rain? 
Have i held on for too long?
Is this my very own Kubla khan conjured out of the...

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Categories: dispossess, confusionwords,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beware the Shepherd
While jurisprudence illustrates through brief,
the bureaucrat stand verbal in reply.
To pillage righteous freedoms like a thief,
he fans malfeasance tethered to a lie.

  Incitement is...

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Categories: dispossess, anger, angst, hope, presidents
Form: Rhyme
Days Deprived
Displays deepest mind 

And a resolute that endeavor 

Yet memories were treacherous and sere 

Sound of silence startled ear 

Disconsolate linger chasten'd more fair 

Eclipsing...

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Categories: dispossess, on writing and words,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Furious Chemistry
Time disorder is common in a concert meant for those who rush
one organized by adrenaline and moderated by passion
a boomerang transaction, where the receiver and...

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Categories: dispossess, love, lust, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Update True Environmental Tales - 101
I
Fifty years ago - I was about ten -
My grandfather wept for a tree:
Blue Spruce, one in the township ...
I empathized, but didn't understand

II
This morning,...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dispossess, beautiful, betrayal, garden, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Words I Do Not Like:
disappoint, disavowed, disingenuous, displace
disastrous, disapprove, disallow, disadvantage, disaffect
disagree, disappear,  disapprobation, disarray, disassociate
disbelieve, dishearten, disharmony, dishonest, disinterest
disguise, disenchant, disengage, disfavor, disgrace 
disdain, discredit, discourteous, disconnect,...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dispossess, on writing and words
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Apocalypse
No man knows the exact day or hour
But charlatans continually preach of an Armageddon stour
Over fallow fields they their abrasive treatises scour
Softening the hard, unyielding ground...

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Categories: dispossess, angst, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Go Off To Get To
Thought forms that arise,
often agonise,
unless
a plan we devise,
choosing to baptise
and bless,
rather than apprise
these ego spawned lies
that stress.

If we would progress,
our soul must access
the heart,
choosing to...

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Categories: dispossess, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs