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Best Skyrocketing Poems

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Premium Member Peace Slips Lightly
Peace slips lightly
Over my shoulders
Downy in its softness
Its netting of gossamer
Floats downward
As a willow's branches
Might brush fate
And touch the unknown
I stand with beauty
I hug airiness

Fire...

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Categories: skyrocketing, autumn, beauty, change, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One-Way Ticket To Midnight
Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran 
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea 
China taking over the sea...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skyrocketing, death, war,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member You Set Me On Fire
You set me on fire
Sizzling, blazing, devouring fire
Hot licking flames
Infernally hot
Temperatures skyrocketing
Scorching flares
Shooting out of your body
Searing into mine
One more moment
And I’ll cease to exist
The...

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Categories: skyrocketing, desire, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west...

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Categories: skyrocketing, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
We Are One - Nigeria Remix
We Are One (Nigeria Remix)

Ever seen an eagle feeding like a vulture?
Dignity trampled on, where corruption is a culture?
Darkness threatens her future, cause of her...

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Categories: skyrocketing, peace, political, visionary,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Mad Men In High Places
If the world were a soccer ball I'd be mighty tempted
to kick it high to kingdom come.
After what I learned today I feel ripped off,
feeling...

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Categories: skyrocketing, corruption, dark, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme
A Welcome Home: Part I
as the hypocrite talking head
seeking re-election in 2012
tells us all that this empire (which continues to wield its
sledge hammer upon the world)
this “land of the...

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Categories: skyrocketing, life, education, education, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Soup Brain Fart
Oh my gosh I have another view on those poems I posted an hour ago,
About the break up with my boyfriend and the color of...

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Categories: skyrocketing, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Couplet
2018 World Cup
Oh to be in England on a Summers Day
Said Shakespeare 
I think ?

I must confess 
I can't ever remember an Indian Summer
As Sun kissed as...

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Categories: skyrocketing, summer,
Form: Free verse
"o"
Eyes shine with the proud tears of a nation reborn
     From the ashes of corruption and greed, a unifying spirit will...

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© Jesse Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skyrocketing, black african american, happiness,
Form: Villanelle
Civility Where Have You Gone
Civility where have you gone and why have you gone missing
Since you left, all I hear, is an awful lot of hissing
No matter how I...

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Categories: skyrocketing, conflict, corruption, work, world,
Form: Rhyme
Wonders of Love
Life is short
But love can be shorter 
I wonder if love could ever be overwhelming 
I wonder if we could ever get tired of love
I...

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Categories: skyrocketing, 10th grade, best friend,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member What Pandemic
What 'pandemic?'
  I never called it that
As for 'climate change'
  Something for God to work at

Don't believe there's any 'polarization'
  Isn't the...

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Categories: skyrocketing, fun, silly, weather,
Form: Light Verse
The Unforgivable Voyage
†††††††††THE UNFORGIVABLE VOYAGE††††††††
Tears trickled through my face
As our vessel threshed the deep.
Seagulls flapped their wings on
The beach as I watched them 
Disappear before my sight.
I...

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Categories: skyrocketing, adventure, break up, poems,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Just a Little Note
Hey guys this is just a little note to you all from me.
recently I've noticed that the number of views on my poems are skyrocketing...

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Categories: skyrocketing, success,
Form: Free verse

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