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Best Writing On The Wall Poems

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The Writing On the Wall
I stumbled into a graveyard
And found written upon a stone
"In this place lies the human race,
Who died greedy and all alone"

It was dated Two-thousand and...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: writing on the wall, life
Form: Rhyme



A Total Enigma
I can’t be branded and put into a box
I’m a rhyme wrapped within a riddle a complete paradox
I won't  carry the labels, or walk...

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Categories: writing on the wall, introspection, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Blind 2
(This a new Version created using many editing suggestions from Linda:) 

I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten...

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Categories: writing on the wall, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Brutal Truth collaboration with Sandra Weiss
My mirror tells the brutal truth,
a woeful tale of vanished youth

Where one eye squints and one eye shines
and broken dreams are long dark lines.

Emotionless and...

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Categories: writing on the wall, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sound Of Silence

The sound of silence- writing on the wall;
   do not disturb their sound of silence song.
They turn their back- aversion to the brawl;
...

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Categories: writing on the wall, silence, sound,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



A Ride In Dylan's Voice
Woke up this morning
 on the wrong side of the tracks.
Left out leaving for all the right reasons
 and all the wrong facts.

Caught a ride...

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Categories: writing on the wall, journey, religion,
Form: I do not know?
The Writing Is On the Wall
The writing is on the wall.


The writing is on the wall, an old saying used even until today
for those found lacking or deficient, Divine judgement...

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Categories: writing on the wall, bible, evil, inspirational, judgement,
Form: Quatrain
Nothing Else Matters
Song: Nothing Else Matters
Cliché: The Writing On the Wall
Image: Clock

Your love, the orbit that I’ve always sought
A constant star’s warm illumination
For endless decades, searched and...

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Categories: writing on the wall, love, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Writing On the Walls
Graffiti frames the tunnel's tomb, beneath the city's core
where writings stretch upon the wall in dialects profane
A hallmark of the day's routine,  but often...

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Categories: writing on the wall, humanity, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For You My Brothers and Sisters With Love
love is vital
 if you find it fight for it
 we give up too quickly on our partners
 
we need to be in touch with...

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Categories: writing on the wall, love, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Coming To Terms With Reality
He disappeared without a word.
There was no writing on the wall
to let her know what to expect.
Was she naïve and blind to all!

Her expectations drowned...

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Categories: writing on the wall, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Easy
Something's different...things are changing...
Right before my eyes
You seem distant...I just can't stand it...
To think your love has died

I see the writing on the wall
You're gonna...

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Categories: writing on the wall, devotion, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nonsensical
Wrong is right and right is wrong.
Long is short and short is long.
Black is white and white is black.
Toilet paper we may lack.

All is zero....

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Categories: writing on the wall, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Have We Met?
Hi. 
Have we met before?
Your smile, it just reminds me
Of some friends in Singapore

Or maybe it was Europe..
As we travelled there by rail
A skiing trip...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: writing on the wall, friendship, hello, humanity, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member English Will Never Die
Every day in every country,
Our language is distorted, mutated on planet Earth.
Good words like “drolic” die,
Whilst “wanna ‘ave a go” is given a birth.

In Australia...

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Categories: writing on the wall, drug, language, literature, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things