Best Phases Poems

the night as black as a newly broken heart

      increasingly 
         the crescent of a single sly smile
             outshone the...

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THE PHASES OF GRIEF
bereavement pain physical
spiritual and philosophical 

SHOCK & DENIAL
can’t find relief
overwhelming numbed disbelief

PAIN & GUILT
unbearable preemptive suffering 
remorseful chaos excruciating

ANGER & BARGAINING
growing bitter frustration 
time rewinding negotiation

DEPRESSION & REFLECTION
grieving bitter loneliness
memories filling emptiness

THE UPWARD TURN
adjusting calmer living
affliction less unforgiving

RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH
willingness to...

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As small children we are wide eyed and innocent,
toddle after Mommy like baby elephants,
go to school to learn with our writing implement,
our parents hoping that we don't act indolent,

As teens upon graduation were confident,
some acting wild while others are reticent,
finding our jobs and falling in...

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Lunar phases of deepest thoughts
Fasi lunari dei piu' profondi pensieri 


The unwritten absence of your 
beautiful soul, before you entered my world—
I closed my eyes to the 
sparkling tinctures surrounding it, 
feeling silent tears glide across my heart, in 
my deepest nocturnal thougths, 
thinking of...

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Great works are like
Fossilized trees
Petrified by time
And turned into stone.

Great works are testament
Of hard work, perseverance
And made up of precious materials
That goes beyond generations.

Great works are history
Of life, progress and conflicts
Never run out of legendary stories
That carve a name in the epoch of time....

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The scent of Eagles
Shortly after hate-filled
Cantations
Drive you vertically insane

Nearly touching utopia
Engulfed in flames
Your editor suggested options

Including uncovering cemetery
Ashtrays enrobed in trace-water
Marble

Unforgiving
Even joyful        I concede

Your mouth dripping fresh-picked
Strawberries

While antediluvian rainbows
March towards certain death
Or nirvana
You
Said

As phases of the
Moon
Dictate


6/20/15
© james marshall...

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Life is in many phases, 
Daily,as we meet new faces,
 Lets think through our paces,...

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I am my own hero
Life is not a zero!

Still thinking it as weird?
I'm over what I feared!

Think I passed the worst 
Was high school cursed?

Get past the pain
Grow a new brain!...

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Look high to the hills to see peaks of icy water laden tops
Water is flowing downwards into winding streams
The permeation of ponds, lakes, rivers and the mighty seas
Thus a supply-chain like feed supplying all watery needs

The Sun's fierce heat induces water evaporation
A dark daunting nimbostratus...

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People change.
The beggars randomly scorn the commoners
When refused a beg,
And solemnly retreat to their
Dejected lives, waiting for another expedition..
The obnoxious fact that 
Men control their fates,
And women control their mates,
All are portentous assumptions 
To relieve the baffled human soul
From another.

We wish there were trees 
Huge...

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Life is a phase
Full of energy like my son's crayon
It open up in pages
Flipping through in no rhythm of colors
Our dreams are often in cage
Strings and tunes are in block colors
Yesterday paces up in phases
With a lot of good memory in black
Today is like a...

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PHASES OF LIFE

Some are poor and needy with nothing to eat
They are dregs of the society, ordinary people
They are naked all day long day dreaming
Their mouths speak of pains and agony.
Some have no money, children, wife and husband
In all, they have hope and joy for...

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She is silent & she plays
Mostly she has books before her face 
She rarely come to me 
& ran away as fast as she could 
I know her since her childhood 
She is my Lil girl 
& I'm an old mirror of her room 

One...

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much of what's behind
lies buried within the mind
revised or maligned

boiling down this life
using memory as knife
won't halt inner strife

trying to avoid
staring straight into the void
ego was destroyed

filling empty lines
outside truth's murky confines
too soon undermines

join the collective
following each directive
brought lost perspective

nature will arrange
the many phases of...

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When your boss calls you aside and asks
why you are smiling all the time
on the salary he gives you,
you know
he suspects you of raiding the till.

When for three or more times
your girlfriend cannot keep a date
because she’s  so busy,
you know
you’re about to be dumped.

When...

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