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Best Inquest Poems

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Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inquest, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: inquest, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Sara's Waters
I approach the wooded trails and hear nothing save for my footfalls crunching in the soft snow. It is the kind of winter day that...

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Categories: inquest, analogy, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Shopping List
It’s all of three feet long, in order it is not,
And then there’s all the other stuff she’s probably forgot,
The first thing on the list,...

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Categories: inquest, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lizzie Borden
LIZZIE BORDEN

Poor miss Lizzie, a murderess acquitted, 
By a judgment’s ruling of her peers,
Yet command by histories theatrics.
Astound damsel, to the wealth’s elite,
A matron’s old...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inquest, character, halloween, holiday, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Going Halloween Haiku Crazy
All hallows eve night
Just one scary night in fall
Bats bit my isthmus

I changed my figure
Wearing black cape with shadows
Two fangs from my jowls

This tale of...

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Categories: inquest, adventure, fantasy, holiday, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lo and Behold
Predictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes...

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Categories: inquest, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shape of Jazz To Come
Is war coming? Are we headed for another crazy cataclysm?
My sons, draft age. Only now can I appreciate the pain
so sharp it drains the color...

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Categories: inquest, crazy, fear, history, pain,
Form: Verse
Reasoned Conclusions
(Argument for the Biblical Account of Creation.)
I don't see why some people try,
without reason, to reach a conclusion.
They must haveconceived an end to be achieved,
through...

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Categories: inquest, religion, age, bible, water,
Form: ABC
Nature Takes Its Course
monotetra

Our school’s sylvan woods hosts new guests,
A slew of deer ticks could infest
the ancient football stands with pests.  
The coach is stressed; the coach...

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Categories: inquest, adventure, mystery, nature, teacher,
Form: Monorhyme
Who Am I 1
WHO AM I

Who am I anyway; a hare-brained mongrel?
A tree lightning struck on sedate shores?
Deadwood burnt lying in the grave of forgetting?
A firefly turned into...

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Categories: inquest,
Form: Free verse
Code Blue

I get a severe case of ghetto epilepsy
when it goes skin dark at night
Get a bad reaction  ...  very violently,
to any rearview flashing...

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Categories: inquest, dark, discrimination, metaphor, truth,
Form: Ode
In Search of Some Non-Sense
The changed wind today,
Blows a spontaneous rhythm;
Endlessly on broken chords.
As every He/She pendulums blindingly,
To blend and bend themselves craving for,
Inquest of a roller-coaster joyride inside;
And...

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Categories: inquest, art, birth, death, introspection,
Form: Questionku
The Gathering
My journey is long
My path is so wide
I've met many souls
In which to confide

I've seen many scenes
I've done lots of stuff
I've walked varied roads
Both easy...

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Categories: inquest, introspection, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maze
Mind ego seeds an endless trip,
Address the pain of faith gone blind;
Zeal in mad need can counter grip,
Empty the gains in empty signs!
Give up the...

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Categories: inquest, allusion,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things