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Best In The Balance Poems

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Premium Member A Poets Abode
A Poet’s Abode

A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...

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Categories: in the balance, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: in the balance, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
ONE WORD~

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my veins,
               ...

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Categories: in the balance, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member What Is Love
I still recall our first poetic glance,
dormant pen roused my fingers to dance.
Her love was like a cherry blossom tree,
which at first blossomed so beautifully.

When...

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Categories: in the balance, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: in the balance, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member When Yesterday Was Today
On cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness 
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely...

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Categories: in the balance, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If It Wasn't For Poetry-
In love with poetry, spellbound am I-
by force, that takes me to the land of words.
Beyond control, this power has its way
that leads me to...

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Categories: in the balance, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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Categories: in the balance, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Notions
Grounded by the gravity of our earth 
      Our body and spirit are often pulled 
In opposite opposing directions in
...

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Categories: in the balance, character, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: in the balance, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: in the balance, weather,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech
 Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate

With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An...

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Categories: in the balance, analogy, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Introvert Wings
Extrovert eyes express cimmerian connotations,
hidden within silent chambers of an introvert mind.
Thoughts twist and turn, but disguise frustrations,
as a melancholic heart struggles to remain kind.

Drained...

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Categories: in the balance, angst, anxiety, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom From Trees
Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the...

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Categories: in the balance, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Sucker Punched
I can't recall exactly when
Life swung and hit me on my chin
I"m ashamed to say, it knocked me cold
When I came to, I woke up...

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Categories: in the balance, age, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme

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