Best Fates Poems
Three FatesLife's thread is spun, measured, and snipped
By three dainty pairs of deft hands
To weave the cold words of life's fickle script.
Clotho spins life with a valiant grip,
Her spindle ablaze with gold strands.
Life's thread is spun, measured, and snipped.
Lachesis measures without pause or slip,
Deciding the length...
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Categories:
fates, imagination, words, , fate,
Form:
Villanelle
Roadkill and the 3 Fates
"Road Kill and the 3 Fates"
Daughters of Nyx
the sisters
Stand strong together
when darkness
feigns innocence
next to the forgotten
Road Kill
Nyx becomes Themis
a memory
infiltrates the mind
prompting the true law
and order of things
Backwards towards
a beginning
Inside resides
the female Titan
somewhere winning
Collecting the threads
of each life enlightening
the golden chords copacetic
the...
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Categories:
fates, integrity, mother daughter, sister,
Form:
Free verse
The FatesA new sunrise, a new time, a new day
Sunsets past, just a memory, time gone.
Yesterday we cannot live for, or pray
Tomorrows, there are many more, not none.
One body, one mind, one love, never late
The fates cruel, or be they kind instead.
To never love, how wrong,...
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Categories:
fates, love, love hurts, ,
Form:
Sonnet
The Sweet Meadow FatesOh crushed the buttercups beneath our feet
Hand in hand to walk the sweet green meadow.
To hear the lark and nightingale so sweet
Side by side, sit on the stile in shadow
(A new sunrise, a new time, a new day)
(Sunsets past, just...
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Categories:
fates, love, , fate,
Form:
Verse
All Cards Are Marked and All Fates Will CollideThe fates of newborn children were marked in separate cards
Long before their souls flew in their clay figurines like birds.
Beyond doubt, all cards are marked and all fates will collide.
Like the clashing objects in rough whirlwind or Tsunami tide.
My destiny is written, imprinted in a...
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Categories:
fates, mystery, philosophy, visionary, ,
Form:
Lyric
Paralleled FatesWhite roses grew in my mouth
Drunk in ambrosial poetries
Craving for love from a butterfly
'til perpetual darkness.
Argentine crepuscule stole my happiness
Caliginous skies swallowed my entity
Still waiting for her to come
Seems I have to wait 'til morning sun
...
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Categories:
fates, feelings, for her, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Unthinkable FatesI can vividly recall the moment it occurred.
I can recite in my mind each particular word.
We were hanging around by the locker room door,
to congratulate the team for winning once more.
It was a tournament game with a large rowdy crowd.
The fans...
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Categories:
fates, family, father, lifeprayer, me,
Form:
Couplet
The Cruel Fates of Comets and KingsAh!
The cruel fates
of comets and kings.
To bend
around the arc of Archimedes,
swaying and swelling,
to be crowned on its
next flight around.
Followed by trails
with wind in their sails, until
new laws are lain on the land.
They so love the moon,
they would encase it in granite.
Again, they'll...
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Categories:
fates, analogy, moon, space, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Do Some People Swear At Their Own FatesAlmost all people just try to steer
their own life cars
in their own ways,
few, through wide highways,
a great number,
through narrow lanes
with no gains
but in too many pains
so they all swear
at not what they haven't done
that they should have done,
but at their own...
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Categories:
fates, career, dream, education, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Fates HoldLove is a conquest, a journey
A story waiting to be told
Next years best seller written to be sold
So hold my hand love me here
Let our lives become apparently clear
Understanding love holds me cold
It creeps up inside of me growing...
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Categories:
fates, life, love, passion, people,
Form:
Fatesi saw you in a dream in pasadena when i found an old miniature tape recorder hidden in the
wall. that day i went to photograph the orange wall surrounding the estate reclaimed by
the government and chain-linked fence to keep me out
that night i tried to...
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Categories:
fates, adventure
Form:
Lyric
When the Fates AllowI don’t write Sonnets,
or Limerick verse
I don’t write Haiku,
though often terse
I don’t write Ballads,
or Horacian Odes
I don’t write Parables,
to self-implode
But I do write in Rhythm,
and often in Rhyme
With meaning that’s buried,
and metered in...
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Categories:
fates, writing, , fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Yucatan, Et CeteraYucatan, etc.
Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.
Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
antique busses, burros, plumbing, pyramids--
as if nothing ever caught on.
There is no CHRONOLOGY, the pace and mores
are too counterproductive--
poster Indians pee along the road,
the women...
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Categories:
fates, fate, holiday, irony, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
ArmageddonAge's bloodiest showdown looms,
Or such it seems by its lurid form;
Spirit's sharpest arrows must fly
Swifter than is their agile-witted norm.
Now Armageddon's most savage sword
Cruelest aim of softest landings takes,
Though target's dexterous fightback
Its most foolproof arsenals stakes.
Thus unfolds time's...
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Categories:
fates, adventure, age, anxiety, birth,
Form:
Bio
BazaarBazaar
The nights’ chest opens up -
strings of illusions
rattle in palms
the knowing buyers haggle
for a dream
while the fascinated women
try on
toles of princesses or odalisques.
In the shell of hope
genuine perls are priceless.
Silk labyrinth
of amber and incense,
amulets of shamans hidden in death,
a mirage in golden cases,
the...
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Categories:
fates, arabic, art, beautiful, destiny,
Form:
Free verse