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Best Effacing Poems

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Premium Member Letter To My Mother
Realizing a fresh life growing inside, 
What thoughts coursed through your mind, 
I still wonder, oh dear my mom. 
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or...

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Categories: effacing, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse



White Feathers Sprayed Red
We war with impunity

And weaponise such things as the 
beauty of flowers

And all for what ?

When come today we have to guard the statues and...

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Categories: effacing, slam,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Ego
Once upon a time there never was an Ego
For it was alive by the breath of wishes of those who were suffocating from it
I carried...

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Categories: effacing, character, encouraging, growth, how
Form: Epic
Premium Member Boa's Ark - Part 1
1. MORNING HAS BROKEN 
The men, in lines, tramp two by two,
forgetting all the women who
indulged them through a night of tricks
(their lips designed with...

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Categories: effacing, death, fantasy, philosophy, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unmeant Meanings
 Unmeant meanings

	Words keep watch
				
      their eyes in the empty spaces
         ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: effacing, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxii - Continued-
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXII

IF ever I had a country with or without nationality
And if ever I were elected or nominated Chief...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: effacing, betrayal, patriotic, satire, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Burly Bear Follows Buzzing Bee
Honey Bear,
I would like to say goodbye
and would appreciate your reply.

Where are you going?

I am going to sing farewell
before my minute hand wears out.

Already,
yet I...

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Categories: effacing, allegory, earth, family, health,
Form: Personification
Premium Member March Blues River
Rivers of bluesy-greyscale river 
flow through her understoried gaze,
sometimes too turbulent,
occasionally too still,
even for her Elder memory stream
with sluggish circulating economy
surrounded by surface-molding
way overly-competitive political
bicameral...

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Categories: effacing, age, earth, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Better Hide Your Daughters
Pressure's on, must think of some sillies
My mind's yelling back “Don't got none!”
Surely there must be a few not yet posted
Through the years I've written...

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Categories: effacing, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Breathing While Thinking
Yang unveils landscapes of textured thought
while Yin brings climates of swelling and ebbing feelings.

Together,
yin affective unconscious
with yang deductive conscious labels and language of natural,
and sometimes...

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Categories: effacing, caregiving, corruption, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Only She Knew
She knew, sadly, no one else
That he was incredible, self-effacing creature
Merely trying to unravel mysteries, roving in people's lives
And share tales from forgotten planets

Like hero...

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Categories: effacing, caregiving, dream, encouraging, hope,
Form: Ballad
The Gift of Life
The gift of life you gave to me
A heartless gift...we would agree
You didn’t even blink when asked
When surely some would be aghast
Forever thanks...I guarantee

You heard...

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Categories: effacing, hope, life,
Form: Rondeau
Christmas With Christ
“It’s the day
God will send His Son”
Overheard the guardian angels say
“It’s the day
The infant king will jump out of the tummy”
Heard the sheep caressing the...

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Categories: effacing, christmas, universe,
Form: Free verse
Solutionist
SOLUTIONIST:

Drenched soul placed on a bench,
Avengers revenging not ready to repent;
Edge of grudges they always entrench,
Dreading of fate, that's what they depend.
Trends and hypes risen...

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Categories: effacing, allah, angel, god,
Form: Lyric
Old Man Winter Gives a One Two Punch
overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make...

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Categories: effacing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs