Best Expunging Poems
Working Out Isn't Working Out
...I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.
M......
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Categories:
expunging, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Bloody Men
...The blade penetrated the flesh
like a prong to a pitted plum
he had played with war
toyed with war
yet the gun
well the gun didn't have balls
Not for him the sterile
three shrouds removed
expunging ......
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Categories:
expunging, death, fear, introspection, war,
Form:
Free verse
Winter's White
...Winter sheds Her dander
upon a frigid breeze,
releasing flakes of white.
Like soft, feathery down,
they silently settle
on everything in sight.
Ice crystals glittering
in their daz......
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Categories:
expunging, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Verse
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found want......
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Categories:
expunging, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form:
Sonnet
Lured By a Kiss
...Transcending bliss,
lured by a kiss.
By giving love a brand-new start;
you healed the wounds of yesterday,
and chased all of my doubts away;
expunging the pain from my heart.
You he......
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Categories:
expunging, beauty, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two
...Part Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope
Now we stand aghast before this edi......
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Categories:
expunging, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Match In the Dark
...What a game ...
he was just a jester,
and this a ghastly prospect ...
The ground lay torn open before him,
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart,
pulled on his better jud......
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Categories:
expunging, analogy, death, fantasy, games,
Form:
Free verse
Candied Kisses
...You embody innocence and truth,
traits one rarely finds outside of youth.
And with your intoxicating charm,
you guard my heart, shielding it from harm.
You entice me in erotic ways,
fa......
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Categories:
expunging, emotions, feelings, heart, i
Form:
Rhyme
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
... by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes the time too fretful on your hands
next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all
th......
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Categories:
expunging, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Attila Ilhan Translations
...Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as eve......
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Categories:
expunging, break up, farewell, for
Form:
Free verse
Are Ye Goin' To Marry That Witch of a Dame - Counterfeiting the Canticle By T Wignesan
...ARE YE GOING TO MARRY THAT WITCH OF A DAME - Counterfeiting the CANTICLE by T. Wignesan
(With self-lacerating apologies and scathing penance to that great troubador medieval English poet who lo......
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Categories:
expunging, betrayal, fantasy, humor, marriage,
Form:
Quatrain
You Are Indispensable: Attila Ilhan Translation
...Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain......
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Categories:
expunging, absence, autumn, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Joust Meloncholy
...Such a grand memory I set aside,
Passing time in the French bucolic countryside
Passing lazy days away
Sipping sweet, sweet wine.
Lifting spirits, jousting melancholic ways
Experience expunging naiv......
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Categories:
expunging, art, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Disarmament
...Expunging weapons
Mass smashing nuclear arms-
Byzantine debate.......
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Categories:
expunging, evil,
Form:
Haiku
Turkish Poetry Translations I
...Turkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
tha......
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Categories:
expunging, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse