Best Shriveled Poems
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With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
My Hands -The Artist-
My hands paint everything in my life
they paint my weakness, my strength
they paint the fire in my eyes
they ......
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Categories:
shriveled, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
..."Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
- laughing while she begs for clemency!
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Categories:
shriveled, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
...**"And his name was Jack"**
No one perceives what abides above the clouds.
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs.
I demand to see and feel before I believe.
A castle, a dream…. I want the magic......
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Categories:
shriveled, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form:
Free verse
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Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
her fiery scars pound against her sanity
struggling in twisted ropes of silent screams.
A wounded Athena, she is a woman in chains
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Categories:
shriveled, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form:
Free verse
...Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of a s......
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Categories:
shriveled, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form:
Free verse
...The ship in the habor on silvery seas
Lay vacant outspread 'neath the glassy moon
Drifting in cold whispers of the night
Like a drunk man shriveled on clasping knees
In the loud ec......
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Categories:
shriveled, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
...Thirsting, thirsting. . . shriveled earth
suffocates in summer’s dearth,
yearns for rain clouds’ forthwith bursting:
Shriveled earth. . . thirsting, thirsting.
Browning, browning in the......
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Categories:
shriveled, daffodils, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
...An ancient twilight tree now stands alone
with weakened cries of olden creak and groan;
winter’s rattling winds do rise and shake it -
in stark silhouette shriveled and reaching
wizened limbs ......
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Categories:
shriveled, age, death, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
...Awake through afternoons and ageless nights,
the poet waits for a muse to sneak.
His brumous mind reminisces,
frantically exploring a galaxy of words.
He looks for a lofty mountain hiding in the ......
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Categories:
shriveled, art, butterfly, color, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
...Lingering within
It sits upon my widow sill,
after all of this time,
the Magnolia bloom you sent
Wilted and shriveled,
once the purest white -
now browned with age
Yet what it is,
is......
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Categories:
shriveled, age, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
...I stared into the mirror, wincing at my own reflection,
through eyes fogged by cataract.
Saw a black tint spreading around my eyes
and face like a wrinkled piece of linen
Where is ......
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Categories:
shriveled, age, angst, change,
Form:
Free verse
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Her dreams entangled in twisted ropes
perturbed fate of banished desires
innocence shriveled in raging fires
they haven't known her bubbling hopes.
Her existence exhausted in spir......
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Categories:
shriveled, analogy, inspiration, journey,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
...I'm choking and shriveled
with this monster in my mind
Were we really free,
Alexander Grah......
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Categories:
shriveled, confusion, freedom, history, memory,
Form:
Free verse
...I enter
the third season of my life
approaching my Autumn years
I marvel
at the shriveled withered leaves
as they silently swirl in the wind
I see
russet, brown and golden ones fal......
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Categories:
shriveled, death, seasons, tree,
Form:
Light Verse
...With bending stem and shriveled leaf
another day of scorching sun
becomes an ache without relief-
a day where growth has been undone.
As baking earth converts to tomb
with thirsting roots, no ......
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Categories:
shriveled, hopeday,
Form:
Sonnet