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Best Whys Poems

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Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: whys, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beautiful Scars
      These scars on my soul are beautiful and painful,
deep gashes that cannot be seen except in my eyes;
 ...

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Categories: whys, grief,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Trying To Grasp the Magnificent
I sense the fullness 
in fleeting moments
At those rare times 
I'm able to let go of me
The ebbs and flows 
of non linear thinking
when I...

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Categories: whys, blessing, creation, forgiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme
For My Children
You’re all in charge of authoring a story
Of love and humor, suspense and glory
You’re writing starts with your very first thought
And doesn’t end til your...

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Categories: whys, for teens, life, my
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Word- Heroic Crown of Sonnets
THE LAW

Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his...

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Categories: whys, bible, christian, life, light,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



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: whys, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Came Unexpected
She said it was just a poem
But her naked vulnerability 
Was all too real; I felt the chill
As the sun quickly set behind
Her cold and...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whys, break up, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Last Night
I laid out on my porch last night
Listening to coyotes rage a fight
I watched the moon with her bright, full face
Place a blanket of shadows...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whys, life, nature, night, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Curtain of Pain Fell Upon Us
While snowflakes continue to fall,
upon a night  pale as ghostly winter
I falter from my own distraught pause--
the hazy  moon watches my young girl
a...

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Categories: whys, mother daughter, pain,
Form: Free verse
Reborn On Calvary
In the darkness of day,
we, the tear baptismal ones 
were reborn

In the shadow of Calvary,
we, the gospel seed
was crucifixion conceived — 
A bereaved delivery

On that...

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Categories: whys, birth, religious, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Get An Education
"The boy's got a broken brain!
- Fix him for me now,
I can't do a thing with him."

     - So I hear...

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Categories: whys, black african american, education,
Form: Rhyme
For Mama
She showed me the clouds
and how to walk on the ninth one. A dreamer.
In the absoluteness of her mind, no barriers
exist within existence
as if her...

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Categories: whys, faith, inspirational, mother daughter,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Church
When I went to the Temple
It should have felt like home
So as I sat in the pew
Why did I feel all alone

Was my heart disconnected
Was...

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Categories: whys, blessing, change, devotion, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
One Day In My Shoes
If only one day you can feel what you put me through
Wishing one day you can walk in my two shoes

You will feel a pain...

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© BE Bailey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whys, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faith Is a Powerful Thing
FAITH IS A POWERFUL THING


Faceless fears. Trials. they seize and drain whence one let them sink . . . 
Across our path are stormy hills...

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Categories: whys, character, emotions, faith, prayer,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things