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Best Tombed Poems

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The Forgotten Voices
The date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared 
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing...

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Categories: tombed, conflict, courage, depression, military,
Form: Free verse



Miners Dog
High home summer hill

Straining, sucking, sitting

Staring, stopped and stick-

A pit-prop tight and gripped.

The trees across the valley

Much higher than he can go now.

I pant to...

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© Dave Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombed, career, community, metaphor, pets,
Form: Free verse
Mysterious Night Sky
As we stand looking up from planet Earth

observing Milky Way so many stars

some fade, die, some gracefully dance with mirth,

our moon reflects, shines bright, silhouettes...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombed, beauty, earth, moon, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member This Is Danger
This is dangerous
said pirates to their vampire allies
about losing past regeneration fees
and bloodline contributions.

I'm being treated unfairly,
said pathological hurt
to self-redeeming anger,
loss of sacred winning patience.

I've...

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Categories: tombed, culture, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Shadowed Soul
A quiet place where silence begins and anger stops. Tombed in a clever little spot 
where only we can enter. A barrier between life and...

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Categories: tombed, fantasy, life,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Five Wiseelders
Five WiseElders come together
hoping to complete their life circles
resonantly yin, right embodied
sacred light
resiliently yang, left enspirited
secular polypathic bright

Hearing emotions
before seeing to speak changing motions
of flow-strength,...

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Categories: tombed, age, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Notchosen Stories
What are these days of mourning stories
I choose not to tell about myself,
my emotion-driven journeys
to windy hot imagined future
and remembered warm wet green
and impossibly resilient...

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Categories: tombed, games, green, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Magnetism Innate E'Er Shallow
"Magnetized by a show of light, few see its shadows cast."  
-- the cost of dawning
 
*   *   * ...

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Categories: tombed, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Regarding Merit
Regarding merit: absent, missing, void
Of all redeeming qualities, save one,
The apple of His eye, His "very good.”
Was He, in pleasant garden, much annoyed
When they His...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombed, creation,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Thy Heart
~Thy Heart~

To What Thy, . . .
To What Thy, . . .
Thy, . . . Wonder.

Thy Loss, Twass'ed Thy'est Attune,
Thee Loss,
Carress,

Less Thee Loss, . ....

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Categories: tombed, heart,
Form: Blank verse
Keep Holding On
An open window beckons the
silence held in darkened nights

with wisps she carries her tune
dressed up in black attire all too soon
tomorrows memories wake
terrified tombed to...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombed, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Seasons
Spring:

Genesis shod the tapestry splendour
  wrapped global in the skin of creation,
derma-terraformed rock and flora,
  beauteous beast, tempered landscape foundation.
Stirrings in the forge...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombed, death, life, seasons, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Zoya's Tears For Kyiv
Zoya sits, now all alone, 
just staring through a window pain 
to where a pink magnolia blooms 
in someone else's garden. 
And all her dacha's...

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Categories: tombed, conflict, depression, war,
Form: Rhyme
Thy Heart
To What Thy, . . .
To What Thy, . . .
Thy, . . . Wonder.

Thy Loss, Twass'ed Thy'est Attune,
Thee Loss, 
    ...

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Categories: tombed, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Pseudocide
Perennial plants do it.
Possums we presume.
Those who pretend to die,
But found alive,not tombed....

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Categories: tombed, bereavement, confusion, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

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