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Best Occupying Poems

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The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: occupying, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Unattainable
Satisfying founts of passions, a celebration remains unattainable
Like admiring the unreachable, possession remains unattainable.

Carved pains from which to heal, an abiding endeavour
As pleasure of the...

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Categories: occupying, art, beauty, inspiration, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Straight For Gay
Often made to feel you’re less
Should you care any more?
Can you escape the cruelty,
while occupying your own shore?

People remain unbalanced,
by only seeing you one way.
For...

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Categories: occupying, celebration, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A World of Peace and Love V
Tell me, 
My dear friend, 
My beloved brother, 
My trusted ally,

Till when are we going to let 
The autocrats
The dictators
The despots, and 
The tyrants govern...

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Categories: occupying, love, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Many Coffees Go Cold - Reality Explained
the things you both see
you all see 
is merely a continuity safeguard 
one of the laws written in to prevent chaos
we can't have multiple lifeforms...

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Categories: occupying, fun, humorous, life, people,
Form: Free verse



A Moment In Time
A moment in time..

I saw you across the room the other day,
Much like another time when you held my gaze,
Pulling me in with one passing...

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© Angel Fire  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupying, desire, life, longing, loss,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member This Year
This year I am going to paint the sky.
Use the hands of masters past.
Open to the heavens, Angels will my heart occupy.
Both the day and...

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Categories: occupying, art,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch...

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Categories: occupying, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Stranded
A raging river tenaciously floods
Tannins and silts combine to dark blood

A hut, just fifty metres, occupying their sight
Two men, cold and wearied, stuck for the...

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Categories: occupying, adventure, earth, nature, success,
Form: Narrative
Whom Would I Listen To
Sometimes when am emotionally strangled 
I sit in the corner of my room
and think and blink,
also cry untill my eyes run out of tears..

When I...

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© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupying, conflict, heart, loneliness, mentor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aerial Dancers
As butterflies eagerly flutter  into view
Our senses unfurl with alluring sights
Engaging while imparting those  ornate designs

Under skies azure,  they entice, delight
Igniting then...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupying, nature, beauty, beauty, senses,
Form: Free verse
Parody of Distance
Estranged men caught in their remote dimensionLoving only that, which they can see and touchDigging foxholes to hide their fear of infinityThe concept has always...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupying, absence, bible, death, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Silent Prayer
Dark, punishing days lie ahead.
       Winter has crept up once again and I'm deep 
    ...

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Categories: occupying, care, longing, perspective, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Around the Corner
Present turbulence
Occupying the skies
Like a madman's insolence
In pursuing his demise 
Until his madness is silenced.

Electric atmosphere
Burdened by constant charges
Desperately seeking release
But peace remains at large
For...

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Categories: occupying, inspirationalpeace, peace, endurance,
Form: Free verse
It's No Sin
It sneaks in
Very quietly,
And you see
Before you know it
Bit by bit
It’s there
Inside you,
Coursing everywhere
But then
You refuse to believe
You’ve fallen
Initially you tell yourself
‘No way, Man’
Despite
Apparent changes
That...

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© Vijai Pant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: occupying, emotions, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs