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Premium Member Flightless Birds Trapped In a Gilded Cage
Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage.
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Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage
Budding pretty flowers 
Within the blossoming of youth
Of tender sensitive age
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Born...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, childhood, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: flightless, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: flightless, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woodstock
~Woody Wood From the Hood~

Deep, inside yourself, you walk a sour way of life,
Carving my name, on every tree with a hunting knife
You log in,...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, abuse, animal, bird, character,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member perfect storm -
from the forest, deep, she came
      like a jaguar, quietly prowling
         drawn...

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Categories: flightless, metaphor, ocean, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Gift, the Truth, Hope and Its Sweet Promise
The Gift, The Truth, Hope And Its Sweet Promise

Your hope- you have gifted unto me
unto me, a vagabond shifting sand
a flightless bird lost in its...

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Categories: flightless, art, creation, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
A Scrappy Little Nest
Flightless, the smallest such bird,
he’s hopping about madly now,
dexterous little feet grab what they can -
he lost his beak decades ago
to a merciless marauder drone...

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Categories: flightless, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Firefly
Flickering in green gold 
Floating little light bulb
Flying with silent wings
Flightless females await
Flashing to find a mate 
Fluttering together
Flare of sparks dance composed...

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Categories: flightless, blessing, creation, emotions, imagination,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Broken Wings Unsheathed
Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Breathe In Me Life, For Death Enshrouds
“Seducer, healer, deity or thief,
I will see you soon enough—
in the shadow of the rainfall,
in the brief violet darkening a sunset—
but until then I pray...

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Categories: flightless, blessing, care, death, hope,
Form: Free verse
Blinded, Folding
Blinds were drawn,
 slid closed.
So she folded herself,
 collapsed
In familiar retreat,
Along similar lines
 going weak
Giving in again
 to movement
Of leg's levers pulling
 thighs to belly
Drawing...

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Categories: flightless, analogy, self, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Memoriam For Donald B Buchanan
Who will weep for my noble prince? Who will cry
With belly swollen with sorrow, and tears long
As the Black River? Who will hear the clouds...

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Categories: flightless, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form: Elegy
Oh Sarah - Will I Find My True Love
Upon the second story balcony
Around an old mosaic table top
Sits Sarah alone with her thoughts
Bright blues, yellows, greens and reds
Sparkle with splendor in the first...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, beauty, love, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Magic
On the first day of Christmas
my true love gave to me
a Partridge in a pear tree.

Truly a miracle was he
cloaked in a robe of deerskin
as...

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Categories: flightless, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sanctuary
Sanctuary

Crawl into my sanctuary, 
And leave this world behind. 
Open up your heart, and let me in,
Then close the door of your mind. 

Wrap yourself...

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Categories: flightless, beautiful, birth, character, child,
Form: Rhyme

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