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Best Perishing Poems

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Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishing, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad



Hearts At Odds
Hearts made of wax, sent through the mail 
Should help relax, instead I wail,
They will soon melt in time's hot hands,
Loneliness is felt midst life's...

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Categories: perishing, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim 
to fate's wounding ways.

My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishing, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weathered
Diminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,

Wishing the...

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Categories: perishing, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Lifted Up
from suffering and pain
that is piped into veins
by the organ-less master
who relentlessly plays

from a congested gutter
of fake themes
hiding in deception
and callous clutter

from distaste of the...

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Categories: perishing, environment, humanity, political, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member valor's silhouette -
friendship - we have chased that apparition, endlessly,

          but it's elusive spirit - always beyond our...

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Categories: perishing, analogy, character, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Shell From Sawed-Off
I'm aware that
They'll dare me to surrender when my burner's unkindled
And the barrel is empty
Since their whiskey is missing
 
But it's in our blood and...

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© Criss Jami  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishing, adventure, art, cowboy-western, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
Exclusive Birth Rights

I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...

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Categories: perishing, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
....Stealing Souls....
Hues of a darker shade, cascading across skies of illusion....

Evaporating waterfalls, of lustful desires and want

Brought forth amid fairytale words, from within fantastical thoughts

And I...

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Categories: perishing, life, sympathy, visionary
Form: I do not know?
Born of Life
Drum beats inside black bare hairy chests
Tradition hidden in treasure chests
Chess played on mother earth , sounds like home
Home grown sounds ringing throughout the neighborhood
Stomachs...

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Categories: perishing, africa, community, dark, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Life Journey
“Life --- commenced by God’s love, with soul quickened through His grace, spirit revived in His strength, faith buttressed upon His truth --- abides forever...

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Categories: perishing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Metaphors written in psychedelic ink
When words like seeds remain uncultivated,
in somber silence the poet within me dies.
In the misery of my perishing poetic oasis,
petal like poems refuse to infuse...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishing, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Writing Nuances
Above my head, a ray
where I sit on a mossy ledge, 
stylus in my hand drips words 
like acid upon thin papyrus sheets--
of myths and...

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© Leon Datu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishing, words, writing,
Form: Verse
Impacting Pollution
In the rising sun,
Coming down by the mountains,
Echoes the sirens of seas.
Teaming with all life
Were clouds of foul defilement
Shifting torrents to crimson...

Metal vessel floats,
Tainting with...

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Categories: perishing, allusion, corruption, environment, imagery,
Form: Sedoka
Maid of the Mist
Maid of the Mist

Living on the mighty Niagara,					
the Ongiaras dwelled in peace
but the village members were perishing
at the will of an unknown beast

They gathered fruits...

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Categories: perishing, history
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs