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Best Look Away Poems

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Premium Member The Best Poem Ever
~The best poem ever~

Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....

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Categories: look away, death, words, heart, heart,
Form: Epic



When She Dreams
When she dreams/ with Jennifer Noble

(It was a) different time...
a different world
Long ago she learned that..
trust can turn

(Everyone said) such a pretty girl...
Her porcelain skin...

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Categories: look away, abuse, anxiety, dream, for
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Can Resist You
Don’t even try to woo me
I can resist you
My mind is fortified
Reason screams reasons to be careful
Caution goes off in flares
My mind is alert
Aware
I can...

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Categories: look away, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member God Is Good
Once driving home, I did defy
A deluge from the darkened sky.
The bluster lent a tinge of fright.
But God is good, and all is right.

When soon...

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Categories: look away, faith, god, house,
Form: Rhyme
My Turn To Cry
I’ve distanced myself
I didn’t mean to
Didn’t set out to do it
An unconscious act of the mind 
For self preservation

My visits went to once a week
Sunday...

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Categories: look away, confusion, depression, devotion, loss,
Form: Free verse



Higgledy-Piggledy Pickle
I've a bit of a problem here...
in a higgledy-piggledy pickle
torn between housewifery
and creative muses fickle.

Scattered, shattered fragments
of odd ideas, dreams
lay about my den, disguised
not nearly...

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Categories: look away, funny, humor, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: look away, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From the Padded Cell
in this your padded cell of silence
you torture me
in your straight jacket of neglect
I writhe
tormented
tried

from the observation window
you look in
cold hearted
indifferent
you take notes
of my descent
from...

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Categories: look away, abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Ice Enchantress
As droplets freeze half-breathed
     From the mouth of Winter
          Howling winds, foreboding
...

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Categories: look away, fantasy, sea, seasons
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Battle Scars
Don’t judge that kid with her arms all scarred
Don’t brand that kid as bad
You never would have survived 
If you had the life she had
So...

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Categories: look away, life, sad, socialwar, prayer,
Form: Narrative
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes
alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with...

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Categories: look away, child, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Blooded, Virgin, Night
Brighter than a fall bonfire but with the chill of ice, 
the winter sun haloes a gray and barren woodland;
throbbing, almost hesitant, with a florescent...

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Categories: look away, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heavenly Body - Limerick Collaboration - Bawdy
A nubile young vicar named Jude
Was seen swimming, totally nude
The bishop said WOW
Just look at you now
Your assets - they need to be viewed!

Fiction write!

07-05-17

Invited...

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Categories: look away, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Little Glistening Salmon
“Momma… what are those lights up there?”
“Those are salmon fish, glistening in the sky…”

…

She begs to understand your fears, your passions, your pursuits
She is down...

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Categories: look away, adventure, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Because You'Re a Poet, That's Why - a Repost
Because you’re a poet, that’s why 


Behind the thick crimson and gold thread curtains
he stands listening to the din of the audience
searching their seats for...

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Categories: look away, poetry,
Form: Epic

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