Best Expended Poems


Premium Member For Shame

...The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – ......

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Categories: expended, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Melody of Sadness

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A saddening song swishes subtly in the bitter breeze, 

Mad mournful music meets me everywhere I move, 

Like a dolorous dirge drumming through the dark; 

Wistful winds wearily bring to ......

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Categories: expended, music, sad, war,
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Crone

...A warning breeze bore tale of a familiar and fiery rage;
in the dread of night, a crone hobbled, accursed of her age  
by smoldering orange glow, she took to an ancient black tome 
raptly reciting......

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Categories: expended, courage, dedication, fantasy, lonely,
Form: Quatrain

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Premium Member New Start For Captain Mazy

...Wading through flooded streets as hurricane rain poured
A man fell into the flow when sharp thunder roared
As a journalist reporting live from the scene
I saw lightning crack through the sky, heard t......

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Categories: expended, inspirational, people, war, ,
Form: Narrative

Tempest

...TEMPEST

Twin limestone tors thrust up through valley floor
Like isles or icebergs in a calm flat sea
Deep green save where shear rock can hold no spore
To spawn in fecund niche a vine or tree
......

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Categories: expended, environment, inspirational, philosophy, places,
Form: Narrative

Agricultural Show Rodeo

...Across the ridges, flats and ranges, in print, on radio and stages,
you may hear this tale wherever you may go.
Sometimes a stranger may confide, about that famous ride,
in the rodeo at Mildura's ......

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Categories: expended, adventure, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme


Blood Spilled

...I was born in a life unlike yours;
We have struggled in all the years.
We knocked endlessly but all the doors
Have been closed 'coz of the numerous wars.

I could never forget all the cries,
Tears st......

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Categories: expended, courage, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Unglued

...At times coming unglued
delaminated
Strands separating
vaguely holding their shape

I breathe in the breath of delirious spirits
swimming in circles around a splintered mind
I reach oblivions doorste......

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Categories: expended, confusion, introspection, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Reveal

...Reveal

Revealing hidden treasure
Opening to view
Bringing unknown pleasure
Embracing something new

Romance long defended
Thwarting every chance
All the times expended
Movements through th......

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Categories: expended, love,
Form: Quatrain

Obsession Part 6

...Desperate, I ponder on your death,
scant breath expended twixt the two of us,
and loneliness an ache too harsh to mention.
With pen in hand and no one to subscribe,
I'll never know the softness o......

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Categories: expended, hope
Form: Verse

Open Oceans

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"Open Oceans"



Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys

praying
preying

hungry hearts
count the days 

wasting away
in all that preying 

for......

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Categories: expended, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic

Searching For Prince Charming - Ballade

...Was it loneliness that convinced me to pursue
Yet one more futile try, another mismatched mate
The years pass quickly and the choices become few
On eligibility’s scale I fail to rate
A magical co......

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Categories: expended, angst, loveheart, heart, me,
Form: Ballade

Premium Member A Kiss of Honor, a Memorial Day Tribute

...Frantic searching for my sanity as the odor of explosives and burning flesh assault my soul.  Longing for the boredom of stuffy barracks my eyes my friends constantly search for your return I hide al......

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Categories: expended, blessing, brother, conflict, death
Form: Prose Poetry

Snapshots From a Child's West London

...I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair 
During the mas......

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Categories: expended, child, childhood, children, england,
Form: Free verse

To My Children

...To My Children

Love is just energy forever changing form, but indestructible.
The force determines the beloved from the lovers, mistakenly interchangeable.
Whereas the latter are the bones of th......

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Categories: expended, father, children, love, me,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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