Best Relegates Poems
...Villanelle : When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Proclaim citizens who kill under the patrie’s pennant heros
Permissi......
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Categories:
relegates, history, memory, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Villanelle
...There is no beauty in death
Not a lack of, but none at all
Death is a hunter, a fierce one at that
You and I are mere prey
From the moment of birth
When you take your first breath
It is besid......
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Categories:
relegates, death,
Form:
Lyric
...The foliage unruffled, the tree trunks utterly baffled
The reign of darkness all along
A nightly hoot of owl, the occasional growl
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Categories:
relegates, earth, environment,
Form:
Ballad
...For my soul feels agitated
with desire for my rights
overriding reason.. desire
to overcome the oppressors
The yoke of oppression
The set of the system..
relegates me to a state
where i hav......
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Categories:
relegates, community, corruption, deep, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
...Break apart all those facile screens
Organized overdrawing of institutional bleeding
Walks through maps and tourism
Pushing hour glasses beyond comprehension
At the ground level, animals are recurri......
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Categories:
relegates, dedication, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
...Like questioning the existence of a presence
Ancient and authoritative manuscripts
Choose a blank in word usage and omit this
As some Bibles forget and use words
Written how an adulteress is fo......
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Categories:
relegates, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
...A DICTUM BY DARROW
If you add an “s” to the word care you get scare
Perhaps that’s why it scares me to care
I’d like to care but simply don’t dare
And to me that really isn’t very fair
Latel......
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Categories:
relegates, angst, care, me, women,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
...accursed creepily haunting
Phantasmagoria wraiths
vandalize residents psyches
within their sleep induced state
Sublimation shunts
slumbering souls
unknowingly held hostage
successfully sacri......
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Categories:
relegates, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
...dropping annie at the church
has become a habit now
every early morning
while we drive
i just look at the magnificence
of the rising sun then she talks about
trials troubles and tribulations
w......
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Categories:
relegates, analogy, god, life, love,
Form:
...SEA PAST THE MAST
For most folks I know……..
that which has come to pass is stowed well away in the past
They’ve cast off the shadows and shelters of their history
However my past is wedded to ......
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Categories:
relegates, angst,
Form:
Free verse
...Anthrax
By Tom Wright
10/14/2001
Silently mobile,
Produces anxiety,
Offensive bacteria,
Relegates caution,
Emitter of fear,
Stealer of life.......
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Categories:
relegates, death, pain,
Form:
Acrostic
...Darkness envelopes me seeping into every cell
Icy tendrils as unyielding as the moment that brought me here
Here to this place of unrelenting grief.
My breath is excised from this remnant of my ......
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Categories:
relegates, absence, grief, loss,
Form:
Free verse
...Rage of potential writhes
Rears its demented face
Relegates a locked life
Region inhibits space
Respite fro......
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Categories:
relegates, anger, angst, blue, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
...The deep darkness of a somewhat fading frustration
Has me feeling aggravation
An agitation that relegates my soul to sheer tribulation
Devestation activiated by my permutations and calculation o......
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Categories:
relegates, bereavement, dark, death of
Form:
Rhyme
...her back against wall;
nowhere to run.
bricks close in,
hardly the sun.
the last light
will be a spark —
terror
triggers
final bullet
of Fall.
window panes
like empty pews
look on......
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Categories:
relegates, dark, emotions,
Form:
Free verse