Best Tarnished Poems

The razor strap always welted my skin
And quickly crippled my soul as a child
Balled flesh of a hand to my head a sin
The angry pain over time I have exiled
No tears fall now from my time of beating
Nor memories close by an anguished cry
Death to...

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Memories, like treasures, are oft tarnished by time
stored in that vault in the back of your mind.
                          But dreams buff...

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Every image and text we post on Facebook
is selected and air-brushed,
to present our lives as we would like it to be,
sharing images for self congratulation and gloating.

We are both the viewer and the viewed, 
the audience and the actor
mutually disclosing tarnished, 
filtered and selected images...

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Just on a whim I took a walk,
following the trills of a lark
Along new trails did I embark,
not recognizing a landmark

Fearing the worst, if truth be told,
along unknown paths I had strolled
The air touched me with frigid cold
Sunlight faded to tarnished gold

Cicadas sang as they...

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I am a Tarnished Knight 
Dragons do I slay, 
With my trusty sword 
I hold then all at bay. 

  
I have a trusted steed, 
A Unicorn named Dream. 
When we ride together 
We make a mighty team. 

  
Nary is a dragon....

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If there were room in your heart for me,
Would things be moved around to see
Exactly where my place might be?

Would there be a rearrangement,
A test of sorts or period of commitment?
Could I replace your deep resentment?

There once was room in your heart for me,
Reflections of...

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It's just a simple dream
 hazed by brilliant sunlight
 tarnished by my wayward schemes,
hidden in the dusty cobwebs that form
 in the shade of procrastination
 where time waits for no one;
one day, I'll take them out again
 clinging to their easily forgotten efforts
 to polish...

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Land of lost opportunity
Gone before we ever earn
What else are we to give
When do higher ups learn
We all give ample shares
Making our country great
Losing too many soldiers
Destroying to feel safer
Politicians out-of-touch
They may as well forsake...

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Bratwen was a knight of slight ill repute
his good deeds oft times ending up caput 
he strived to reach the halls of fame
yet it always seemed to end up in blame.

He heard tales of a damsel oh so very fair
who appeared to have vanished into...

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Tarnishing through timing
Three times trustingly
Triple traps tripping too
Trounced twice tingling 
Telepathically trudging 
Teaming tremendous tasks
Tell Timmy to take tally 
Tarnished Through Timing...

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"Midnight cast its cloudy beams   
From the gloom the shadows went 
Smudging all the tarnished dreams" 

Lying deep inside my mind, it seems, 
My thoughts become twisted and bent 
“Midnight cast its cloudy beams” 

Run strangely amuck in painful extremes 
Synapses spark, mixed...

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You betrayed my very love and kin,
With your words today said in sin,
You are buried to me in that dust,
And yet spoke of tarnished trust....

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(alternately known as the Doubting Thomas Crown 
Taj Mahal Cupid Affair)
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Tarnished now The Nobel Prize of Peace:
A shadow of its former self.
It succours sadness and willful disbelief,
When given to the truly undeserving.

I anguish for those languishing in jail,
Who've strived for justice and for freedom.
Their courage is a sentinel of light
Against the backdrop of dictarships deplored.

Tarnished...

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Hush the silence, hurt the ignorance,
Hurt in the silence, hushed by your loud heartbeat,
I couldn't fight for you, I wasn't strong enough,
You left me no choice, you pushed me away and pulled someone else close,
Now you want us back but you don't mean it,
Never did....

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