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Best Paled In Comparison Poems

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Hurricane Sandy
Sandy stole my words. 
Desolation and despair 
triumphed
attempts at descriptive 
narrative 
paled in comparison
to the cold, desolate reality left 
behind.  

Humvees and police cars patrol 
debris clogged streets. 
Red...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paled in comparison, loss
Form: Free verse



The Chalice of Courage Pt1
On a mountain top,
In a distant land,
Lived a fierce dragon
With talons sharper
Than the great butcher’s knife
And a breath 
Hotter than a million suns.

His sole purpose...

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Categories: paled in comparison, adventure, inspirational, life
Form: I do not know?
Funeral For a Friend
The day is sad and cold.
The white pine at the forest's clearing
	pours sap, like tears
From the many meaningless gashes
	of the hatchet's blade.
A rogue shoelace dangles...

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Categories: paled in comparison, death, friendship, seasons, old,
Form: Blank verse
The Temple of the Jinn
Resting in the Persian hills,
is a mosque built under enchantment.
The gold visible between its pillars,
beckons the wayfarer’s advancement.

There was none who could stand against its...

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Categories: paled in comparison, myth, vanity,
Form: Narrative
Worthy of Thought
some sought remedy
it was less likely that these approaches
would yield fact: after all in
the broader realm of it's being
it paled in comparison to what
it wished...

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Categories: paled in comparison, adventure, business, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Classicism



Everything He Created
Everything He Created by Kenny Davis

 

She is not only everything I want,

But she's everything I'm not

She's everything missing and lacking from me

Everything I could ever possibly...

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Categories: paled in comparison, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A New Mythology
There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of...

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Categories: paled in comparison, allegory, mythology,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Out From the Heavens
OUT FROM THE HEAVENS 

Came this dazzling beautiful Gem, hurtling towards me
tail aglow, streaking across the darkened sky,
bearing an energy that lit up all I...

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Categories: paled in comparison, love, dance, beautiful, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twig Beneath a Redwood Tree
Long ago I had a coroner friend.
Wasn't long before he shared his dark stories...
People passing away in strange ways-in strange places.
Distorted postures-a maggot's buffet.
People going...

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Categories: paled in comparison, grave, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bleeding Heart
She is wearing fuchsia, he told me.
It was easy to see her now.
No wonder he was smitten.

She had a confidence that uplifted the garden.
The other...

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Categories: paled in comparison, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Eternal Love
If I could choose a moment,
To be my eternity,
It would be that one,
Sitting above the Bow River,
On that high Banff perch,
Above the Rocky Mountains.

And your...

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Categories: paled in comparison, crush, cry, dream, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member See
5-20 Lines on: The art was most masterful on the dark canvas


The genius of her life paled in comparison amongst those who balanced easily walking...

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Categories: paled in comparison, beauty, emo, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs