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Best Oblivion Poems

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Premium Member Snow -A Sleep
Snow -
a sleep
descending on the twilight streets;
Snow, in silent fields you lie pristine
beneath moon’s glow, a blanket shimmering.
Oblivion serene!
Tranquilly envelop me in
Sleep -
a snow;
the more...

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Categories: oblivion, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: oblivion, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: oblivion, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: oblivion, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
I Slipped On a Tear Drop
I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblivion, death, sister, suicide,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblivion, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblivion, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free 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: oblivion, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Falling Leaves, Beautiful Demise
Leaves talking, beautiful demise

If a leaf could talk, it would say, please, take your time
life is acted out in stages, every song has it's rhyme
When...

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Categories: oblivion, autumn, beautiful, change, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Calling Cupid
Atmospheres afire with devotional dynamic desire
I call scarlet jasmine crimson vermillion and ruby red
We are caught in a crossfire as we perkily perspire
And cupid carries...

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Categories: oblivion, love, passion, romance,
Form: Sonnet
In Her Absence
Here I am once more...smoking 
..on the balcony of my dreams.
My heart’s beating gestures of love...pulsating,
...deserted in the darkness of lust.

Ardent thoughts conquer my mind,...

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Categories: oblivion, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Price of Paradise
We don't talk about it
Since hands upon the clock have ceased to move
When minutes creep, on skittish feet
The walls grow small~

By blue degrees, she drowns...

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Categories: oblivion, death, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oblivion, allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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Categories: oblivion, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pawn to Silence
I was cursed with 
ink intoxicating 
blank canvases 
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales 
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken 
     ...

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Categories: oblivion, england, love,
Form: Free verse

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