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Best Precipitously Poems

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The Shape of Dark - A Murder of Crows
murders rise on nights like these
                   crows...

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Categories: precipitously, angst, animal, death, desire,
Form: Free verse



Flippin' Infestation Alliteration
Similar sounds and letter alliteration are literally leaping and precipitously punctuating the 
perforated pages of my mired, muddled mind.. 
     Making...

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Categories: precipitously, funnyfun,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Dawn
The Sun rises...

I know the supposed science 
of light,
bips and wavy lines of
pulsed propagation

like a heart

like emotions~ 

how human feelings start
and stop, the forward/backward of...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precipitously, creation, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'continental Drift' - the Metaphor
'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor

In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of...

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Categories: precipitously, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Are the Watchers
We Are The Watchers

by Stark Hunter


Into the breach the multitudes surge,
Into the crushing breakers and
Beyond the sucking mindless tides,
Down down into the whirring, rushing confluence,
Precipitously...

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Categories: precipitously, racism, violence,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member She Hasn'T Killed Me Yet
She Hasn't Killed me yet
                    ...

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Categories: precipitously, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Love: the Deathly and Delicate
Like the sight of Dandelions at an open venerate sepulcher.
Of the ardent touch, precipitously hailing two other's semblances to erudite tacit merit.
Voracious of the petal's...

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© Me Me  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precipitously, death, desire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member I Put That Stuff On Everything
I put to you a tale of two sheep
tepidly beside themselves with fraught.
Now who was who and which was which...
It simply matters not.
But suffice to...

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Categories: precipitously, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Performance
A Performance

Bricks lay down precipitously low under the layered rain
Between the cracks drops gather wet then wash away
On nights glitter, lights pour out, dim and...

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Categories: precipitously, adventure, death, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Burn After Reading

Proceed no further, please ... 
this Rorschach ink will give you nightmares
Horrifying images everyday in the world you dare don’t see,
terrible things that will make...

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Categories: precipitously, dark, humanity, society, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope

Mein kampf fraught re: 
emotionally/psychologically challenged 
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and...

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Categories: precipitously, 6th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
An Image of Netherworld Envisioned By Mister Misanthrope
Deep within Earthen bowels
immensely distant from sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm

precipitously crooked 
rocky claws pointing toward
an...

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Categories: precipitously, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoning Doubt
On the banks of your life
Doubt fixing you offshore
A gripping beast never quits feeding
On dreams hungry for more

To ask yourself questions
Are they answers you know
Always...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precipitously, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mountain Climbers
High limestone cliffs rise precipitously
Teetering chunks carved by cruel winds
Tempt adrenaline junkies who clutch
The crevice, inching their bodies upward
Toward the barren flats easily accessed
By steps...

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Categories: precipitously, adventure, nature, scary, sports,
Form: Free verse
Pacing My Head
A mind keeps racing 
around the clock
Tic laughs historically 
watching me chase toc
It’s time for rest
but thoughts won't stop 
Head tells self go take a...

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Categories: precipitously, emotions, feelings, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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