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Best Dwindle Poems

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The Vanishing Organ
Sam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
 
From whence I salute
is thin...

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Categories: dwindle, funny, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member O' Wheel of Fortune
My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle...

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Categories: dwindle, musicme, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Sad Sunset
You were my sunrise and sunset,
     I was so happy that we had met.

I loved the way you paid attention to...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwindle, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Written: December 19, 2023 

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson"

  ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwindle, analogy, angst, character, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life - a Nonet
Life might be compared to a Nonet;

if words be deeds, how we flourish

in the first several lines!

But the lines, like time, start

to dwindle midway.

Last word;...

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Categories: dwindle, life,
Form: Nonet



Premium Member Deep Beneath the Ocean
The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal...

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Categories: dwindle, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hate You All
Yes you, and you, and you over there
The nerve you all have, it’s sickening
What right do you have to leave this world?
Why do you all...

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Categories: dwindle, dark, death, philosophy, sad,
Form: Light Verse
Good Versus Evil
4/30/18


The prequel
Of good vs. evil
Did they ever consider each other equal?
One side peaceful
The other deceitful

In the beginning
Neither side was really winning
As the globe continued spinning

Brimming
With...

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Categories: dwindle, dark, perspective, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Small
"If I fell in love a thousand times, would it all make sense?" Sense - Tom Odell

Learn to say no, they said
Before you dwindle to...

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Categories: dwindle, change, innocence, power, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enjoy Life
 Play on the fiddle and on your toes twiddle
For life may pass in a twinkle, no time to dawdle
Before your powers dwindle, with joy,...

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Categories: dwindle, cheer up, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air, 
On the edge of the sidewalk,  I saw it so clearly_ _ _...

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Categories: dwindle, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fire
Golden ambers resonate 

 specks of sapphire blue

and emerald green 

dance in the shadows of those caramel eyes

the warmth of your skin, as I caress

your...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwindle, love,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2
I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of...

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Categories: dwindle, adventure, beauty, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Ghetto Children
Gunshots be leavin 'em children alone
they gotta find a way all on they own
kids screamin out sets for hope 
then run around with a crew...

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Categories: dwindle, black african american, sad,
Form: Lyric
Stand By Me
When stars' twinkle
begin to dwindle,
and the moon ceases to glow,
I won’t have fear or sorrow,
as long you stand by me

When the skies fall down
from countryside...

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Categories: dwindle, faith, hope, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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