Best Remnant Poems

REMNANT
The Book of Prophecy was open to a silent page.
Tis she thought of the biblical generation in forty stages.
Her heart she hears.
In this life that Ora lives, she has fought for wisdom to ensure longevity.
Salient she sits looking out in the sunflower fields.

The vented darkness...

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What Remains
by
Rick Folker
June, 2017
Kansas City, MO

When the crowd clamors
And the tocsin clangs

When the mighty and powerful
Crush the weak, the vulnerable,
The poverty that chains and shames

When fear fights fiercely
With the menacing gang
Silencing the prophets
With their poisonous slang

When the refugee seeks safety
Those sojourners are met with a
Door...

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Yesterday's daisy chain lies limp on the floor
As it has done many times before
Though just a remnant of a sunny day
It makes me smile anyway






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Remember me? Does my voice resonate in your hollow soul?
Ponder on your sins, muse over a girl whose spirit you set out to abolish.
You thought you were my kryptonite. You are but another iron that branded me with resilience.
You feared and despised what you could...

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I don’t know if I’m alone
in this everlasting Hell.
I can’t be the only one who has grown
spending eternity in a mental cell?

In memory’s furthest horizon
my dreams were haunted
by terrors that now shadow day’s sun.
Repulsive images from nothing created.

Yet I have no fear of night.
Although chaos...

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The armies they are massing:
They line and ring every shore, every strand bristling with 
The deadliest of weapons;
The tocsin should be sounded, 
And every cannon is round at its bore.
Fires rage unchecked and unopposed throughout the 
Entire world, and mankind, in part, prepares hastily and needlessly 
Yet more and...

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I serve as a missing link between
A world of liberal dreams
And conservative lifestyles

I am a remnant of a life
Of owning cars and taking a wife
And spend my days organizing files

She embraces all a millennial's roles
Too poor to fill the air with coal
Or think about popping...

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 a remnant stands
oak tree struck by lightning....
buzzard roost by night     ...

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Your words came to me so sharp like blades on my heart. 
For i had struggled in sweat and tears to play in this life my part.

Now lay i on my tinny brains. 
Trying in futility for in.the end it still go down the drains.

Am...

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In the devastating deluge of sorrow river,
swept by the agony current the senses quiver. 
Perceptive awareness faculty sinks within deep,
awakens the quintessence so long asleep.

From the consuming entity of trinity of being, 
if the mind-body dualism disappears unseeking, 
when the distant bells relentlessly toll,
released devout...

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once was a tenant
only thing left is a remnant
have much sentiment...

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LOVE'S PITIFUL REMNANT
(THE MIDNIGHT MIST)

Fragrance fading, clutching in the dark
A hint of her scent, past memories spark
Sparks ignite, on my heart's kindled floors
Until they explode, and a fire roars

Torrid flames rage, till torrential rains -
Contain the fires, as my body drains
My head seeks sleep, and...

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The leaves had changed to amber
     and the signs were taken down,
The gates were chained together
     by the last to leave this town.
Banker man was buried deep,
     the town's mayor died in jail,
The...

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There lay a Bear, his swaying fur, his blank stare
Down by my feet
Which have seen no dryness or showering sun
This remnant
This shade of a carcass
That looming presence of a fading power
Demanding respect through his soothing intensity
Paws tucked away behind his shadow
A place for all your...

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soul submerged in sand
tilted wing in memory
seagull waves good-bye



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People who say “seagull,” we assure each other, are wrong. There's no such thing as a seagull—the correct term is simply “gull," because gulls don't live exclusively near the...

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