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Blights Poems - Poems about Blights

You and I
...You and I Were once two trees– Two budding saplings Placed too close To grow together An Upstate transplant, My midwestern limbs, Opened wide to hold you, Casting too much shade On your br......

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Categories: blights, allegory, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SPIRITED GIBBERISH
..."SPIRITED GIBBERISH" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to wha......

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Categories: blights, allusion, dream, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member LIGHT THAT LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS
... Light* that lights all lights continues to glow triumphant midst woe toward jubilant today 'til tomorrow. Blest light wakes soul up perking with God's prop. Divine light wafts ......

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Categories: blights, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Spirited Gibberish
..."Spirited Gibberish" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to w......

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Categories: blights, corruption, god, identity, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Picture warts and all
...The picture on the parlor wall captures A frozen memento of lives lived long ago. With all its creatures, scenes and features, Arrayed like animals, in a parade on show. Dicky bird smiles entic......

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Categories: blights, image, perspective,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Selflessness Requited
...The blissful ignorance of self-denial as a means to self-awareness and inner meaning denies the selfless bliss of service and love for others. To make less of self, to cease selfish cravings and......

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Categories: blights, best friend, love, self,
Form: Free verse
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM
...WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM When religion becomes your opium you slip into icy pre-dawn to mosque then lie in fever flu at dusk as bilal calls again for you to stumble towards bec......

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Categories: blights, 12th grade, deep, god,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member No Roses For Rose
... Her eyes look up towards the amber skies In solemn prayer before the Sun dies Only to live again a zillion times Prayer is not for the Sun as it climbs Yet again setting the wo......

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Categories: blights, beauty, death, first love,
Form: Couplet
Stardriver
...The surface of of the sky, pointing to the charms of your moons and the reason why he knows you. Verily, I say to you, By and By. A glimmer of star light in an......

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Categories: blights, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
SONG TO MOON
...SONG TO MOON Moon ! Light of Shadows Luminosity of strengthening black bows tears of trite nights and blundering blights tears of a trillion thorny fli......

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Categories: blights, 12th grade, beautiful, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Straggler
..."For those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation" ~By Rumi Decked in floral wreaths and crown as I lay in state among family and friends with my sp......

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Categories: blights, anxiety, death, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ruins
...I remember it well- the old Broadway My city celebrated years ago; So nicely paved and lined with special stores And curtained windows, seen in rooms above. Where we would walk and shop with fami......

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Categories: blights, bereavement, change, city, history,
Form: Blank verse
Life Is Like Waves
...Life is like waves or problem Coming together with issues; Difficult to predict or slam; Hard to enjoy the sound of  the drum When the captain of the ship losing control; Life is like waves o......

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Categories: blights, boat, care, class, horror,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Divine Sword
...March 8 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 7-9 Key Verses –Judges 7:18 and 20… The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY DIVINE SWORD......

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Categories: blights, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heaven
...We learn to pray by praying. We can spend hours studying other people's experiences, but nothing is more vivid than an individual's prayer and its heavenly response. By Poet...

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Categories: blights, appreciation, beauty, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

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