Best Expended Poems
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
Melody of Sadness
...
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
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
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
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
...
"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
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