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Best Extrinsic Poems

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Premium Member A Feral Frozen
Ursus Maritimus ...

I entered your world in quietude, slipping through the granular, soft.
          Long slats to...

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Categories: extrinsic, animal, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member False Alarm
You Fall ...

the ground of your reality dissolves in this
stream of distraction, this inconvenient passion
the mawkish pop music you mock
is now singing your story, as
your...

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Categories: extrinsic, love hurts, pain, recovery
Form: Free verse
Death Defeated
"Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them
         here and there:  even the last flower...

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Categories: extrinsic, death, nature,
Form: Rhyme
War and Peace
Some consecrate the carnage
Of war and infantry;
Or the argosy of navy’s
Crusading far at sea.
Battles have their triumph
When the gun is in the glove,
But the pageantry...

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Categories: extrinsic, love,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Mango Tree
I ask for answers to my problem around midday, carpenters nailing tables beyond their voices. Thinkers building fence of gold, wiping the devil under the...

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Categories: extrinsic, allusion, anger, confidence,
Form: ABC



Nature, Nurture and Self-Esteem
Blessed are those who naturally possess 
a strong sense of self and solid self-esteem.
- This is nature at its best.
Vulnerable are those who solely succumb...

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Categories: extrinsic, self, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Girl Child
Cried she concealingly in her heart,
felt lone and heavy,
disconcerted she was from her graceless life ,
Waited for the support of someone's hand,
and his courteous voice.

Shoddy...

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Categories: extrinsic, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Animosity Vessel
ANIMOSITY VESSEL :

Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish...

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Categories: extrinsic, abuse, evil,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Drone In Emaj
Exotic egos evade exit endings, encompass=ing eccentric  
extensive earwaxed essentials/ergo enameled equi, 
existentials everexuding extra egg entrenched eyecons, 
extricating eerie effervescent 
ephemerals. Ecoli epitaths...

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Categories: extrinsic, allegory, change, culture, fate,
Form: Alliteration
Without From Within
Look at the inside, 
to see the outside,
Look at the intrinsic,
to understand the extrinsic,
See the indigenous
to envision the exogenous,
For what lies without is a measure...

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Categories: extrinsic, inspirational, mentor, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Garden of Adonis
And I talk to her heart of delight, and she shudders to think elsewhere
The purchase of her soul, enlightened over here
She has a glass face,...

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Categories: extrinsic, love, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Refrain
The cycle they speak of
simmering regeneration
folded back upon itself
spinning graceful
behaving oddly like
repetitious Nature blindfolded
Yet transported to the present
in the past
treading mercy
Through the wheel like another
carriage...

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© Aron Jacob  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extrinsic, inspirational, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Querulous Soul
What is the reason for thoughts coming to mind;
most if which foment the feeling of being left behind
on an island of bewilderment,longing for the extrinsic
things...

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Categories: extrinsic, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Catch 22
A woman seeks all that leaves her distraught
In pursuit of extrinsic desires anew
From a dead end grave startled she wakes
Within her eyes fate appeared to...

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Categories: extrinsic, depression, life, loss, lost
Form: Sonnet
Loaded
I’ve befriended lovers:
I’ve befriended lovers daft as harlots cleaved
like the glass in extrinsic films.

My sagacity has matured like adult freesia.

I had been saturated within tasteful...

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Categories: extrinsic, life,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs