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Best Temporary State Poems

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Premium Member I'Ve Not Yet Said Farewell
The hinged door has fallen open
inviting me to step outside -
Death, be not so hurried
to grasp my wrinkled hand.
You've come for me too early
I must...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temporary state, death, goodbye,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member There Was No Fear
Ocean waves woke me from my temporary state
I opened my eyes to a sky full of twinkling rhinestones
there was a peace here that permeated my...

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Categories: temporary state, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Another
Here I stand once again, in a temporary state of 
lucidity.
vivid,  and clear Is this mental panoramic vista
So I know I have times before...

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Categories: temporary state, faithlost, lost,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Cycle of Sadness
Hurling toward heartache 
Stumbling toward sorrow 
Resisting making it worse
Uneasy about tomorrow 

Anxiously awaiting impact
Unsure how things will land 
Thinking though scenarios 
My head stuck...

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Categories: temporary state, angst, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Awaiting Rescue By Good Ole Extraterrestrial Homeboys
Upon surrendering this self
hypnotized faux yes ("FAKE") Earthing,
I noticed nothing amiss
(which temporary state of transcendent bliss
twice daily meditation strives to attain),
ah...before you dismiss
a non "FAKE"...

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Categories: temporary state, absence, adventure, confusion, hate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Leaves
The Air We Breathe Is Provided By
Leaves
By: Tom Wright
10-29-04 

Foliage that in spring was chlorophyll laced,
Yielding the comfort of shade for a season. 
A leaf’s...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temporary state, nature,
Form: Lyric
Headliines of a Child
Events embedded in my mind—from the decade of 6-0,
Return to me as vivid now, as they were long ago.
I went to bed afraid at night,...

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Categories: temporary state, childhoodme,
Form: I do not know?
Awaiting Rescue By Good Ole Extraterrestrial Homeboys
Cuz existence among *****sapiens 
extremely intolerable prospect
particularly sharing planet 
with most violent species
courtesy hoodlums wielding
deadly firearms methodically gun down
men, women and children
ratcheting grim milestone
countless...

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Categories: temporary state, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
To Have the Inner Strength To Overcome
To have the inner strength to overcome

Written By Dean Masciarelli

October 23, 2009 (5:48pm)



When you feel like
you have
no where else to turn

It can do things 
to...

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Categories: temporary state, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Never Compare and Do Not Dare
Never Compare and Do Not Dare

What we should do is never compare;
Or ever be a big show off do not dare;


A good priest with us...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temporary state, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Magdalena Number 3
“MAGDALENA #3”


never forget the name of this poet.
the name will bring you assurance of a love unlike any other.
you will be given strength, 
thoughts you...

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Categories: temporary state, beautiful, girlfriend, how i
Form: Free verse
He Has Taken Me Back
He Has Taken Me Back

Life will always end in one last breath
Before I finally have reached my death
After through years that I once did live
What...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temporary state, death,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member there's hope at the end
Do you ever feel like
There is an emptiness inside you
An emptiness 
That drains the light out of everything?
A black hole

Life in grayscale
Colors faded
Flavors muted
Voices distant

except

One...

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Categories: temporary state, depression, emotions, hope, mental
Form: Free verse
What "is"
happiness Is so dear
happiness Is sincere
happiness Is reckoning with G-D
whom we all love and Fear

sadness Is death
sadness Is Breath
that sooner or later
will reside no more

anger...

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Categories: temporary state, happiness, inspirational, introspection, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs