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Best Distortion Poems

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Premium Member The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256
Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~ 

Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child 
So forlorn
For the poverty 
To which she was born.
Minds...

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Categories: distortion, poverty,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member The Mirror Is a Liar
Time to banish that old broken mirror
It only shows sadness it gives you tears
Its faulty reflection can paralyze 
Don't listen to its voice tell you...

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Categories: distortion, dedication, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aspiration
Aspiration


Antoine had crashed once again when tempting the desert
Freedom fighter laureate poet daredevil testing the call of

        ...

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Categories: distortion, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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Categories: distortion, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Finding the Plot
Finding the plot

Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories

The silenced absence 
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine

Quite...

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Categories: distortion, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: distortion, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Slides and Stairways
Somewhere in the pretty petty imaginary illusion of delusion
There lies a truth an edifice of search between obtuse confusion

Windows like brick walls and concrete blocks...

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Categories: distortion, home, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Sleeping Machines
The harbor gave a dim illumination,
lampposts vaguely penetrating the dark water.
As waves like shades of wine drowned the jagged shore of stone,
I watched a fibrous...

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© Kyle Costa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distortion, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Likelihood Understood
a constanza

Is God’s viewpoint misunderstood?
Sodom burned in His discontent
for conduct our courts give assent.

Though some fault rests with Hollywood,
most immoral misbehavior,
living proof, man needs a...

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Categories: distortion, 11th grade, christian, creation,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth Behind Hate
If Love is blind,
Hate is deaf.
Unable to hear optimism and open minds.
A barrier between reality and distortion.
Truth and Humbleness blocked by the brick wall of...

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Categories: distortion, life, people, sad,
Form: Free verse
Like a Galilee Once Quieted
Like a tempest churning upward
on seething pinnacles of wind,
like a twisting, whirling violence
that is too cruel to comprehend;
thus the conflict of our nature
intensifies within the...

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Categories: distortion, conflict, jesus, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting For a Lonely Death
Im trying to piece the puzzle of my mind together but theres missing pieces and all the remaining ones are covered in black stained memories...

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Categories: distortion, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Fifty Years Ago This July
Fifty years ago this July
  Three American astronauts put the lie to 'Why'
On the surface of the Moon they made a pinpoint landing
 ...

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Categories: distortion, courage, moon, space, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mind-Body Consciousness
I AM as I AM, free & formless in a domain timeless
In, as & one with & within the sea of Oneness
Dissolved and yet in...

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Categories: distortion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I Am My Lover's Instrument
String my wires, tune me up.
Feel my curve under your arm.
I can play any way you want.
But you have to want it bad enough to...

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Categories: distortion, love, me, me,
Form: Free verse

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