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Best Shriveling Poems


Little Fire
...I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield from the elements so unfeeling?

Litt......

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Categories: shriveling, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sickening
...7/9/20
"Sickening"

This is sickening
And quickening
Not at all, what I was envisioning
Nobody listening
Most chickening
Fidgeting
And limiting
Themselves to the point of being crippling
T......

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Categories: shriveling, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Dry Season
...Thick white clouds
Retracing posture
Atop the layers of earth;
Foggy shrouds of white
Overclouded landscape
Clogging the sunlight
In blurry unclearness.

In brown faded bushes
Lies inhalatio......

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© Dowell Oba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shriveling, nature, seasons
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2
...I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down w......

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Categories: shriveling, adventure, beauty, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artificial Intelligence
...So, Artificial Intelligence can now write poetry
(I think I may dislike this)
We have similar thoughts
Its words are lovelier
Rhyme or free verse
hundreds of synonyms.

It can also paint beaut......

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shriveling, anxiety, beauty, conflict, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
You Will Be the Last
...Feel my curling vines surround this unyielding fence
For years they have been tightly gripped against your rust
Above us, a darkened raincloud,
Threatening lightning and stinging sorrows…
Though ......

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Categories: shriveling, anxiety, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse



Dry Spell
...Withering
shriveling all up
inside, I
cannot tell
how long I'll remain in this
hell of a dry spell

No rainfall
here, except for tears
and sometimes
they go dry
too numb to cry, too tired
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Categories: shriveling, angst, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Shadorma
Serenade of Fall
...

Shades of leaves wavering from mauve to ember
colour my lavender spirits in days of November.
When lustrous autumn blankets silently reap,
my glorious desires in ecstasy drench me ......

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Categories: shriveling, analogy, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
William Alexander Bustamante (From Pages)
...Now let us forget foreign captains
And Conquistadores myth
That colors the morning exuberantly
With exotics wars and phony fathers
Like a fine lady strolling along a rotten street
I have tasted ......

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Categories: shriveling, history, people
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tree's Up
...The tree's up, yet it’s not looking so prim
its needles all shriveling and dying, 
so this Christmas is feeling kinda grim.

The cat destroyed the decorative trim,
she says she didn’t, but I kno......

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Categories: shriveling, cat, christmas, funny, imagery,
Form: Villanelle
Cinderfella
...Standing in the wings, on the periphery

of her cultivated world, inhibited only by

station and space, my head slowly spins

into her orbit, my eye lids twitter nervously,

my titillated ears vibrat......

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Categories: shriveling, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Heart of the Garden
...Gardens cannot thrive in shade
an ill-fated penurious terrain
like love that's made, but made in vain
gardens cannot thrive in shade

As light hides behind the trees
shadows conceal the reverie......

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Categories: shriveling, absence, garden, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Anytime
...I comprehend the days when rays do shine and Ra does set 
When inner soul and façade connect, 24 hours in one day gave me breathe, that’s 1,440 
seconds closer to death rather than oxygen left. Asp......

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Categories: shriveling, inspirationallife, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Psalm of Some Homeless Old Testament Prophet
...What have you done to your eager young sons
where will they hide now from the searing sun
and what Jordan river will wash off their pain
your gods were forgotten in your hurry to aim
and the holi......

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Categories: shriveling, political
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Four Into Eight - the Silva Grail
...Four of eight decades rest in the past
So fortunate but how long can this last
I’ve romanced, loved and married
Living a life ever so harried

Raising a family, I’ve worked hard
A successful ca......

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Categories: shriveling, desire, emotions, passion, sexy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things