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Best Splintered Poems

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Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: splintered, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Moonstones in Artless Skies
It feels like the world
has been struck by a 
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth 
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens 
even brighter, 
while...

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Categories: splintered, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: splintered, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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Categories: splintered, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost of My Lonely
Abandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere

Dead air presses...

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Categories: splintered, dream, me, mystery,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member Where the Heart Resides
Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea

Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...

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Categories: splintered, heart, love, me, old,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: splintered, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Brutalities of War
Atrocious affliction trembles voices of anguish 
Brewing vile horror in death of tomorrow
Fearing for the newborn, women, and children
For yesterday’s massacre killed her husband
And the...

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Categories: splintered, sorrow, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
A Ghostly Tear
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O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...

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Categories: splintered, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: splintered, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pluviophile
I am not a rain dog
With my tail between my legs
Dying to run home in haste
Away from showers that gradually increase 
And then come pounding...

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Categories: splintered, love, rain, water,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 2
Continued from Part 1

Hungary hounds harangue the highlands,
howl at skies and desert islands…
Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose

Lighthouse lamps and lanterns...

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Categories: splintered, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Two Trees: Mr Oak and Mr Bamboo
"Two Trees:  Mr. Oak And Mr. Bamboo"


A terrible wind storm was approaching and blowing everything out of it's path!
NOTHING....not one thing at all, could...

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Categories: splintered, image, philosophy, storm, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Pirate's Lady
Crew of scoundrels, scalawags
Skulls and crossbones, on her flags
Hull held low by money bags
The fruitful Pirate's Lady

Upon her splintered deck they rove
Safely anchored, hidden cove
Her...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splintered, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Glass
Don’t tell me the moon is shining;
show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

the thunderclap
   of breaking pane,
  frightening.
splintered shards...

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Categories: splintered, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things