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Premium Member Life Spent All Alone
Life Spent All Alone 

I felt such joy when first my hull met sea.
'Twas years ago before my shattered shell
Was tossed and ravaged, fisherman and...

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Categories: ravaged, boat, death, deep, devotion,
Form: Sonnet



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: ravaged, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: ravaged, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: ravaged, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reason I Believe
 

life can be a ravaged garden
and I have been through a lot in mine
living through tons of grief and sorrow
    ...

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Categories: ravaged, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ravaged, adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: ravaged, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: ravaged, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: ravaged, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can Resist You
Don’t even try to woo me
I can resist you
My mind is fortified
Reason screams reasons to be careful
Caution goes off in flares
My mind is alert
Aware
I can...

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Categories: ravaged, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Enemy's Child : Collab With Carolyn D
The battles on the field are harsh and tough
The looting in their wake engorged with greed
Abundant spoils of war are not enough.
 
Atrocious in their...

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Categories: ravaged, baby, social, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before My Pen Is Hushed
      Before my flowing, poetic pen is hushed in Quietus,
And I have reached my journey's end with folded hands;
 ...

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Categories: ravaged, death, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Upon the Sand
An old man wrote upon the sand,
          Sea foam sweeping to the shore,
   ...

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Categories: ravaged, age, beach, loss, ocean,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Our Last Stroll
Brisk breezes chilled us, we picked up our pace
That night we strolled beneath the harvest moon
And how I wish right now we could embrace
Your warm...

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Categories: ravaged, friendship, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Quiet Fury
A quiet fury gathered on Horizon’s distant side.
Its merciless intensity was destined to collide
with unsuspecting entities entombed beneath the ground
all huddled ‘neath a canopy, immune...

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Categories: ravaged, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Couplet

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