Best Obliterated Poems

Obliterated Truth
My Soapbox sermon
For 2/7/2018
Written: by Tom Wright

We live in a world steeped in moral decay,
Where negative stories are birthed each day; 

Pundits routinely, with their words permeate, 
 Bloviating schlemiels sowing schism and hate;

We’re counted as sheep undeserving of any say,
Regarding what’s important in...

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D-ark
O-f
N-ight
A-voids

M-orn
A-s
E-arly

D-awn
E-ndorses
L-ight
E-rasing
G-ray
A-fter
R-ain
I-s
O-bliterated

Topic: Birthday of Dona Mae G. Delegario (March 04) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The spirit of hollow ideal 
was not the thing,
I remained inconsolable. 
Truth demanded endless pursuit. 
The helplessness of the beaten days 
was unfit for the night of terror. 
The false paradigm could not ignite the flame.

The shadows collapsed 
and thoughts walked in dark
into the trap....

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Obliterated

This is not a word I use often but when I think of how grief and loss feels this word is as close as I can describe it.

Obliterated: destroyed utterly

This is how losing you feels. This is how my soul feels without you here.

There's no...

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