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Roofless
ROOFLESS


Incommensurable conditions

without shelter nor food,

winter storm clouds overhead

frigid chill deep within my bones,

a haphazard zipperless parka

down feathers withered ages ago,

trembling in the frost sans fire

hoping...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roofless, irony, poetry, poverty, weather,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roofless, allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member An Erin Adventure
It was an autumn day, fresh and crisp,
with a slight breeze blowing that made 
our cheeks rosy.  My Aunt Trix and I were
on the...

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Categories: roofless, adventure, autumn, ireland, travel,
Form: Haibun
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the...

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Categories: roofless, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nostalgia
There it stands, desolate and alone
That roofless shell where the winds
Still whisper of the past
When  scampering children's squeals
 And wheeling seabirds' cries
Rose thinly through...

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Categories: roofless, bereavement, happiness, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse



Sweet Pasture Picture
Within these vast and roofless hallowed halls 
Under skies holding clouds like distant smoke. 
Beyond heaving hills sunlight fades and falls. 
Stands a solitary, grand,...

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Categories: roofless, faith, inspirational, god, god,
Form: Quatrain
Oh' Kashmir Concluded

Concluding Part of

Oh’ Kashmir  - Last Part 2


One grave mistake was 
Shown by the decision makers 
Of Kashmir,
To convert the green valley,
Into a valley...

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Categories: roofless, nature,
Form: Free verse
Childeren of Heaven
Wait for hope, another sunshine,
Screams un opened, ache suppress,
Tears hold in eyes, cry less whine,
Penniless life eked out with depress,
 
Roving on the way with...

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Categories: roofless, angst, poverty,
Form: Ode
Street Kids
My Bothers and Sisters
(Street Kids)

We grow up in public landfills, train stations, 
under the bridges of towns,
victims of all kinds of abuse, but we still...

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Categories: roofless, abortion, anger, birthday, bullying,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Haiku: Traditional 17
seeing a rainbow
summer dream of roofless life -
Comfort in God's niche?


Brian Johnston
December 19, 2015...

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Categories: roofless, life,
Form: Haiku
In My Second Childhood
Hold the trod, limit the space
The offspring's of Tuareg Cowhead cut my heels
The breaks on the hind been slammed
I break to a halt, he breaks...

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Categories: roofless, loneliness, poverty, , Lullaby,
Form: Blank verse
The Real Homeless
He is not just the one who lives in a street
But, that who has millions and eats beans
Then farts in a narrow spot in Wall...

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Categories: roofless, allegory, analogy, dark, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Oh Lord Please Answer My Questions
Oh lord! Please answer to my questions

 Why is there sorrow everywhere?


Why men gain superiority


While women shiver sheathless in the utter winter?


They say children are...

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Categories: roofless, children, men, military, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Parasites
All my life,All my days
Wolves and sheep alike flock with me
Like a magnet,they are drawn to me
Like bees,they swarm around me.

Sucking my honeycomb to Sahara
Like...

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Categories: roofless, life, sad, sympathy, me,
Form: Free verse
A Traveler's Journey (A Visit To the Quarai Mission Ruins)
I am a traveler 
In a place beyond time
I speak the language of stone
And adobe,
Listen to the echoes of history
In roofless, melted walls

This is my...

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Categories: roofless, history, native american, places,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs