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Best World Weary Poems

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New Year Media Noche - the Retourne
More than the grand fireworks display,
above chart-topper music blast;
What is the highlight of this night -
The Media Noche, New Year’s toast.

Above chart-topper music blast,
stay still...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world weary, family, holiday, new years
Form: Verse



Premium Member From the Nostril Vortex
From the Nostril Vortex

I breathe in your perfumed 
Plasma leaves from the nostril vortex.
I thrive in the pleasant scenes and velvet touchings. 
I wince like...

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Categories: world weary, metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
A Dance
Now I watch close the shades of red and white
Falling on windows facing each other
mixing thoughts with a far older brother
one who for far longer...

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© Jake A.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world weary, dream,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Evening Panorama
Evening Panorama


 
When the moon is intransigent to a gloomy cloud
Stars filching to stare the horizon
Sparkling luster luring across the sea
Lunged me to stroll along...

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Categories: world weary, inspirational, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
I Saw God Today
I saw God today
In the face of a child.

I saw God today
In the bright blue sky.

I saw God today
In the face of a world-weary old...

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Categories: world weary, devotion, introspection, life, god,
Form: Free verse



Random, Imaginary Thoughts
Wrapped up in a suit of mandarins
playing hop-scotch with 
a hillbilly from Enniskillen
whose left leg is filled with
soot and yellow dust
all wrapped up in a...

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Categories: world weary, funny, satire,
Form: Free verse
A Perfect Company
A Perfect Company
By: Noel N. Villarosa


They are the big fish in a small pond
They received kudos and power widely
With their bunch of fives used as...

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Categories: world weary, adventure, depression, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Death In the Afternoon
Outward swing saloon doors,
Hanging heavy in the midday sun
Where but fools or legends walk
Burnt and scarred,
World weary

The gecko sings

Slow, rhythmical, a slow heavy march
Whining in...

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Categories: world weary, cowboy-western, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pilgrimage North
The suburban pressure cooker expelled its multiethnic horde north. Laden with implements of leisure, bicycles, kayaks, canoes and camping gear; world weary travelers of urban...

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Categories: world weary, adventureurban,
Form: Narrative
59 Reflections
When did you get to be so old?
Jowls. You have Jowls, and a hair
on your chin.
Not fat, no, but plump,
Grannie padded, cuddly.
Laughter lines Or
World weary...

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© Kaye Locke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world weary, life, time,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Universe of Bull
My vacuum cleaner’s broken, 
sits in the garage gathering dust 
Beside dad’s old green car,
oxidising an orangey rust
I tried washing it last week, 
and the...

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Categories: world weary, allegory, life, me, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Ka-Pwing
forgotten sound
of a father's voice,

only a fond memory of English Leather,

faces of children
not one's remembered,

melancholia captioned,

while snared in long wars
bereft of true glory,

cordite charred, world...

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Categories: world weary, father, memory, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tale of Cosmos - Part 1
etherial entities, Elsewhere and Elsewhen
  less than omnipotent but exceeding their parts
  abide in Netherverse, universal children
  intertwining potentials conceive child of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: world weary, philosophy, universe,
Form: Verse
Old But Still Breathing In Life
Journey's end of the final leg of our life.
Our independence, our kids want to take away.
You do your things and just please let us do...

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Categories: world weary, family, freedom, life, tribute,
Form: Free verse
After the News--The Darker Side
After truly listening to all the discussions decided to delete even the world weary darker side,
return to meditation and to listen, to listen.  For...

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Categories: world weary, politicalworld,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs