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Best Slay Poems

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Premium Member Letting Go
"Letting Go!"

Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...

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Categories: slay, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: slay, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Last drop of ink
Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.
But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - 
        ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slay, romance,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Pause My Poetry
You can bleed me blind,
execute my eyes, 
victimize my vision, 
immolate my imagery, 
nullify my name, 
suppress me into silence, 
slaughter my soul, 
execute my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slay, angst, poetry, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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Categories: slay, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: slay, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: slay, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member My Secret Soul
A meek Monet, a gentle Van Gogh
I may seem too nice and mild, though
The moon knows my true name

In lust I ascend to claim my...

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Categories: slay, bird, identity, mystery, night,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Ode to my Beloved

Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.

But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - my universal truth.
A pristine state of perfection.
As her 'silence'...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slay, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member My Moon Child
Dear Life

I’m lost within words 
   unwritten between 
     pastel pages of the past, 
Yet I weave my love...

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Categories: slay, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "life's Absolute Epigrams" (For 2010)
Christian Love frame

The only need for death to every exist
Was to slay the fictional self
And all the embellishments used to support it

Fear not, Love’s little...

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Categories: slay, inspirational, introspection, loveprayer, love,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member About Time
Seconds lost on questioning,
why time's not left to chance?
Each moment is everlasting,
fate's no relentless circumstance.

We act as if time can be saved,
how pointless to believe.
Never...

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Categories: slay, allusion, perspective, time,
Form: Sonnet
The Scorn of Cain
East of Eden we still painfully churn
where belief is earliest bloodshed's birth
and every wicked man shall have his turn
to spill his rage upon the wretched...

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Categories: slay, allegory, analogy, bible, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse, Dawn, First Battle, Part One
Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse,
(Dawn, First Battle, Part One)

Dare I, reduce poet's pen to a plastic sword
flee from shadows that invades as...

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Categories: slay, art, conflict, courage, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Flute
"Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody."
               ...

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Categories: slay, music,
Form: Lento

Book: Shattered Sighs