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Best Gravitas Poems

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Premium Member Cosmos Un -Seen
Floating high in deepest space, un-seen by eye, exploding stars
breath new life, from gas and rocks a planets birth, that leaves a trail
for mankind to...

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Categories: gravitas, space, planet,
Form: Sijo



Premium Member In Honor of You -
Invited into Her circle
of five points,one for each
of the qualities She crystallizes,
truth as fire, earth as nourishment,
body in water, lights in air, and ether as...

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Categories: gravitas, devotion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Sprinkle of Wit
A sprinkle of wit
      a dash of gravitas
    Not too precise
      idle...

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Categories: gravitas, light, poetry, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wilderness Behaviors
It's not that I mistrust you,
though sometimes I feel I must distrust
either me or you.

I ambivalently choose both.

So yes, of course, this is about your...

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Categories: gravitas, addiction, anti bullying, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 17
Tonight a Buffalo Hunt dance is being performed with the utmost gravitas, 
its February and food supplies are grievously low,
inside the massive hide lodge a...

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Categories: gravitas, adventure,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness
"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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Categories: gravitas, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form: Narrative
Sun Kissed and Star Dusted Air Castles
She is whimsical midst-escaping
 blackness & beige stagnation,
reverberant betwixt musicality &
 fictitious paisley fabrications,
recognizes the actuality of her
 enigmatic spirit's frivolity,
well-defined by her quirky 
quintessence...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravitas, adventure, allegory, environment, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Tough Love
My evolving definition of Tough Love:

Messages sent by someone with political-economic power over you,
sent by an authoritative administrator of future positive 
and/or negative 
resources,
intending some...

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Categories: gravitas, anger, fear, humanity, love,
Form: Didactic
Name Game
Once Barry Soetoro
needed gravitas to borrow.
As we all well know
he owes a debt to big-O....

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravitas, political
Form: Clerihew
Kudos To Barack Obama
yea tis history - that end gin shelled a mesh by mit Romney wailin
such below figurative belt mortar attack subterfuge and constant railin
 per accusations...

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Categories: gravitas, black african american, courage,
Form: Elegy
The Budget Is a Moral Document
What goes into 
caucus and committee
and what comes out 
      of caucus and committee

what dialogue travels 
the halls of Congress
and...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravitas, humanity, political,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Great Transition
Wood sapped Energy succudancing up gnarling roots
grasping trees of life
erupt to full parasitic bloom
within millennial Great Transition
blaring autumnal winnowing of karmic stamina.

Fire brings full-flaming confidence
derived...

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Categories: gravitas, autumn, change, magic, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member March Blues River
Rivers of bluesy-greyscale river 
flow through her understoried gaze,
sometimes too turbulent,
occasionally too still,
even for her Elder memory stream
with sluggish circulating economy
surrounded by surface-molding
way overly-competitive political
bicameral...

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Categories: gravitas, age, earth, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
Secret Agent Unhinged Translations
She was a daring escape artist,
secret agent in her own maniacally
complicit central intelligence gravitas,
gritting darkly ravaged plug-in gray matter
weapon of choice - unsystematic wordy tumult...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gravitas, allegory, emotions, hyperbole, identity,
Form: Free verse
Melamine and the Future
How come many mothers forgot that breastmilk is STILL,
And ALWAYS will be BEST, for babies suckling lips???

What’s next then?

The twinkling of a star turning into...

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Categories: gravitas, dedication, family, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs