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Best Shadow Of His Former Self Poems

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Premium Member Last Christmas Haibun
Christmas was always your favorite time of year, we’d had such fun especially when you dressed up as Santa to entertain the local children. With...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, cancer, christmas, i miss
Form: Haibun



Terminal Cancer
Cancer it breaks cancer it takes
It erodes and corrodes body and soul
Lingers and takes hold  cant be stopped or controlled
Terminal is with an apparent...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Greatest Fear
My very worst fear is of losing my mind - 
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are so unkind
No longer able to function as I once could
Unable to...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, fear, me, mental illness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cry of the Lonely Heart
I'm the kid staring into the shop window
Without a penny to spend
I am the hopeless cursed romantic
Without any roses or valentines to send
I'm the life...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shadow of his former self, angst, grief, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Her Song
She is a young terrified girl.
A waning light in the dark
A true citizen of a wrong place;
A real burden to self
An epitome of depression
The embodiment...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, children, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse



Killed By My Memories
killed by my memories

my thoughts, my mind
so ****ed up so twisted inside
they are killing me, ripping me apart
flesh from bone, rippng my very skin from...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, depression, fear, love, me,
Form: ABC
Thirteen
There was a time when the trees seemed taller,
A time when the grass seemed greener and the colors brighter.

A time when the sky seemed like...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, age, childhood, deep, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Her Song
She is a young terrified girl.
A waning light in the dark
A true citizen of a wrong place;
A real burden to self
An epitome of depression
The embodiment...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, africa, blessing, change, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Theme Thong
I'm on my bike every day
Trying to lose some pounds
I giggle like a little girl when
The scale says I'm heading down

The lard is just melting...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, humorous, giggle,
Form: Quatrain
The Love of Lady Earth
The sun looked down one day
And saw a frozen Lady Earth beneath him lay
The sparkling stars hanging all around
A dazzling glow on her face found
He...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Sitting Pretty
Sitting Pretty 


when you're not looking

do you consider me 

what i'm thinking

why i stay

away 

did you know that i do

your 

not mine

and i'm a nobody's...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, betrayal, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Tarnished Prize of Peace
Tarnished now The Nobel Prize of Peace:
A shadow of its former self.
It succours sadness and willful disbelief,
When given to the truly undeserving.

I anguish for those...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, dedication, hope, peace, people,
Form: Verse
Sea of Emotions
I am lying in a sea of emotions.
Emotions so raw and pure, that they overwhelm.

Regret, the many regrets of feeling special.
Regret of feeling worthy. 
Regret...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, conflict, heartbreak, husband, love
Form: I do not know?
The Gardener
This day is hot and bright and  fills my weary eyes,
and while sleep is gone it lies in wait.
The years have gone and the...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, age, bereavement, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Hospital Bed
They gather round the hospital bed
United in a communal dread
Brothers, sisters, daughters and sons
Here to see the departing one

For there's no way back,
The doctors relate
And...

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Categories: shadow of his former self, death, family, loss
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs