Best Lay Waste To Poems


Premium Member My Horse For a Kingdom
...I rode to power on a Midwest horse, 
Bearing amongst the feathers in my cap this terse brief 
from my broken people:
To lay waste to the irksome order
That home and abroad now prevails.
Strained......

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Categories: lay waste to, horse, usa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Village On the Water Vi
...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his penchant......

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Categories: lay waste to, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Unpurged Sad Memories
...Unpurged sad memories


Unpurged sad memories lay waste to my soul
Surreptitiously seeping to the fore
Flee me from demons devouring me whole
Lest eruption at my volcanic core
Paint your face ......

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Categories: lay waste to, abuse, drink, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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The Fear - Threat of Doom
...I have conjured you into existence and now, you are a raging tempest in my mind’s eye. I shudder at the mere thought of you and your embrace... Will you lay waste to my whimsical heart’s content?

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Categories: lay waste to, angst, feelings, freedom, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boommerbombillessentials14
...I came to say, I cannot stay, I know I must be going, in the royal unreal realm 
of simple selfish self, shedding/shredding of the u/me/my shydom charade of people poor of word, thought, premise and......

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Categories: lay waste to, kids, husband, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
A Taxpayer Speaks
...A TAXPAYER SPEAKS

Years ago when filing tax forms reared its proliferating death’s head
I cursed, perspired, and thought about moving to a foreign homestead
As a low-income taxpayer I felt too u......

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay waste to, tribute,
Form: Rhyme


Smith's and Alzheimer's
...standing at the end
of a real life
open-eyed nightmare  
is a group of, broad-day, mind killers   

how many of my kind have you time-warped
into sanity...
who gave you the wights 
to strip away my r......

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Categories: lay waste to, death, fear, health, political,
Form:
Black Cats
...See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all built of littl......

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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: Free verse
Bid Me Live
...Unwelcome shades of scorn, I despise
On this woeful night I slowly fade
Spears that pierce, I feel betrayed
Dismayed, I sorrowfully close my eyes
Resigned to the tempter’s whim
I woefully ask, f......

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Categories: lay waste to, abuse, addiction, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pirates Lament
...[Contains - for effect - deliberate miss-spelling
and bad grammar]

That old pirate cave was a tourist attraction
The guide was in period dress
In old pirate garb and a well practiced script
Th......

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Categories: lay waste to, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beast
...Beast
I’m the lonely voice in the wilderness.
The Beast eye’s up his prey
It wants to defecate on my remains and lay claim to my soul.
Its hunger is insatiable never able to quell its thirst for ......

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Categories: lay waste to, death, hope, introspection, life,
Form:
Battle Royale
...I play Call of Duty: Mobile. This poem is about my friends and
I playing Battle Royale.

UI: Welcome to Battle Royale!
      The match is about to start!..... 
      Time for the mission!
     ......

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Categories: lay waste to, fun, games, war,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Convenience
...Modern convenience

In nearly every room of our convenient lives we have vessels which facilitate our lack of permanence
Our trash cans make it easy to psychologically remove ourselves from that whic......

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Categories: lay waste to, corruption, lonely, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Greatest Story Ever Told
...Who would lay claim to know, 
The greatest story ever told,
Perhaps Homer Simpson Doh! 
For none else is so bold. 

It would take a mere simpleton, 
With the mind of Crusty Clown,
Best he’d co......

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Categories: lay waste to, crazy, dark, fate, giggle,
Form: Couplet
Dark Green Domains
...As we clear cut out Forest 
and lay waste to the trees 
we unleash our demise 
like a revenging disease 
so be ye good stewards 
to the dark green domains
or it's regrowth will Feast 
on your ......

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Categories: lay waste to, abuse, care, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
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