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Premium Member Shunning
SHUNNING

Shun this world, so upside down, that
it views wrongs … as if wrongs right.
Morality’s now immorality
from its sins … please take flight.

A world corrupted with...

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Categories: shunning, america, culture, life, people,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: shunning, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: shunning, food,
Form: Couplet
Wistful Aging
Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts

Absolutely no Botox...

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Categories: shunning, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wolf Pine
A magic place, lone tree at forest’s side
A huge wolf pine that stands alone like me
It marked a boundary once where sheep would hide
Beneath green...

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Categories: shunning, bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Poof
That childhood faith, vehemently spirited,
Difficult to bend, impossible to tame.
That still-cradled heart, curiously open,
Eschewing fear, shunning struggle,
Accepting of each coming day.
The journey so hazardous.
Now a...

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Categories: shunning, absence, abuse, childhood, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Sad Man Bad
A once pretty, teenage girl, heavily pregnant
Stood in the rain,
Her clothes torn, her eyes red, her ankles
Swollen, she was in pain.
She often stood on the...

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Categories: shunning, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Until Tomorrow, Feel Safe In My Warm Embrace
Until tomorrow, feel safe in my warm embrace;
don't feel the rage of those frightening storms...
whisper a passionate wish--- a sentimental phrase.


Stars won't appear to delight,...

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Categories: shunning, faith, friendship, happiness, hope,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Eve's Rib
The rib of Eve is fashion's price
A sadistic trap of six-inch heels
Some masochist's torture device

Or for added bust appeal
To wrap the torso so austere
And lift...

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Categories: shunning, beauty, fashion, freedom, women,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Honesty-Sonnetina Rispetto
everyone respects honesty
due to its sheer necessity
it helps to keep the trust running
by shunning the cunning ever
we too can be smart and clever
build a true...

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Categories: shunning, trust, truth,
Form: Rispetto
Christmas Scene
So what is different
The vagrant limps across the careening snow
Scantily unkempt
From inside the bank with glittering glass
I watched him pass
Carried by the flow
Of that dilapidated...

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Categories: shunning, holiday, satire, war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Hate the Ones We Have Wronged
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. ~Tacitus

as children 
we looked past the world’s artificial trappings 
the ravelment of doctrines 
and...

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Categories: shunning, philosophy,
Form: Suzette Prime
Italy Isn'T So Little
The blonde went down  
with not must resistance
shunning off a stressful afternoon
 
the scene played of society, high
as I peered at all the pretense
and...

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© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunning, people,
Form: Free verse
Sound the Drums
We have always been careful,
Avoiding conflict,
Shunning hostility,
Confronting squabble,
But none of us were prepared when the elders called:
“Sound the drums!”
Discord erupted,
No one was certain of what...

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© Kate Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunning, change, pain,
Form: Free verse
Dwindling
These days, i avoid the mirror...
Shunning my reflection, as a hunched Gollum 
Ducks his head from the sun’s incendiary stare –
I do not want to...

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Categories: shunning, death, depression
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs