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Best Wasteland Poems

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Premium Member Rising From Out of This Cold Frozen Wasteland
rising from out of this cold frozen wasteland— 
a blanket white unfolds with pure hope and love
melting snowflakes on such a clear blue ocean
lying on...

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Categories: wasteland, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



The Widow Among Roses
The widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet 
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers...

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Categories: wasteland, death, depression, lost love,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Silence of the Butterflies
As sunrise silently
marinaded morningtide meadows,
our lips flowed like two streams,
merging within an exclusive estuary

so we set home upon the river bed.

At first we floated like...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wasteland, grief, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Step Away From Eternity
Alas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...

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Categories: wasteland, death, lost love, sad
Form: Sonnet
Become
I close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness

Where is the river, 
Where is...

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Categories: wasteland, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Mist On the Barrows
***Dedicated to a wise old man 
I once knew***
-----" There is no such thing
        as death..." 
 ...

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Categories: wasteland, death, friend,
Form: Classicism
Arctic Seasoned Disguise
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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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Categories: wasteland, good night,
Form: Free verse
Gyspy Soul
Restless, roving soul
needing, reaching, grasping
aching, antsy, anxious
impatient since birth
my soul is a gypsy
wandering the earth

I delve the depths
for spiritual solace,
that place of rest-
scouting rough terrain
searching,...

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Categories: wasteland, faith, feelings, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
A Slave's Cry
Stranded in this place
I cannot recognize
Abandoned and lonely
No one hears my cries
AS i walk through this wasteland
Of wilderness and desolation
I am consumed with anguish
I walk...

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Categories: wasteland, abuse, angst, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Ragnarok: the Storm
With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle

In the forest crows the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wasteland, weather,
Form: Epyllion
Aftermath
AFTERMATH
 
War is final but incomplete,
bodies littered like spent ammunition
along the ravaged bloody street.
But who hears the voices of condemnation
on profit-only Wall Street?
In the dirt...

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Categories: wasteland, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death
Death

Words rip through the night sky
They conspire to tear a hole through reality
A reality created in your eyes

Taped tightly to your mouth is a bill...

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Categories: wasteland, depressionnight, night,
Form: Free verse
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: wasteland, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Wildflower
Winter Wildflower

A billion snowflakes do collect upon a wasteland of neglect
The sky frigid no sun to reflect appears a dot lonely specked
A tear does fall...

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Categories: wasteland, beautiful, cool, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Winter Maker
This should be against the laws of nature
Heavy snow in late March should be banned
Just when our anxious hearts start to lighten
This blast creates another...

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Categories: wasteland, winter,
Form: Rhyme

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