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Capitulating Poems - Poems about Capitulating

Premium MemberI See Myself in Everything

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I endure my arrogance like a leftover twin  
absorbed during gestation,  
seeing myself in everything, not only the eyes  
that watch me rocking back and forth in a corner 
in order to flip my ...
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Categories: capitulating, analogy, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse

tragic prodigy

...You have the Florentine beauty of the soul,

with pale fingers as if made of snow,
you play nocturne farewell melody
on my ribs as if they were a harp.

and your renaissance soul 
will conquer...
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Categories: capitulating, emotions, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Symposium

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"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth 
again...
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Categories: capitulating, love, muse,
Form: Free verse

Deus: An Epilogue

...Capitulating to the wild, random and fickle.
  Sigils weaved from nothing, we digest,
   divide amongst our kin,
    our hands stiffened and hastily fragmented,
     our eyes on the sun,
      w...
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Categories: capitulating, religion,
Form: Free verse

Bribing the Devil

...Leaving nothing to his children but cowardly shame,
his back turned toward the light 

His memory the captor of a traitorous scheme, 
capitulating through the fight

His legacy broken, his endo...
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Categories: capitulating, sin,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Battle of Thermopylae - a Spartan Death Wish - 480 Bc

...THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE  - A SPARTAN DEATH WISH - 480 BC


300 Spartans or hoplites , the truly heroic                                       
The loyal and totally patriotic,
Were ordered to f...
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Categories: capitulating, august, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCapitulating

...towering weeds
the unkempt garden
~ admitting defeat



posted on July 31, 2018...
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Categories: capitulating, garden, nature, summer, work,
Form: Haiku

Traduce Tis Trademark Trump's Traitorous

...transmitted trashy talks
(partially presented pablum pertaining 
     particularly - president ***** (PAC -
     phallic action cum mitt tee)   
     portfolio playboy philandering)

baneful bo...
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Categories: capitulating, 12th grade, anger, change,
Form: Free verse

Old Homestead

...seen from the highway traversing
   backroads in central south dakota
the framework of an old homestead
   a carapace more than a structure
in the  distance gnarled limbs held
rusted barbed wire...
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Categories: capitulating, memory, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse

Dear God

...DEAR GOD,
 
why must I see the road blocked--
and make the about-turn?
I want to know something--
why must all my dream become oblique
and blatantly bare?
your generosity stills stands--
wait...
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Categories: capitulating, devotion,
Form: Epic

Rose of Death

...Kissed by the rose of death.
It's sweet black petals
taste of wine.

I suckle on her
luscious petals,
consuming her
delightful, fragrant aroma

Descending,
Capitulating
to the dark beauty ...
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Categories: capitulating, horror,
Form: Free verse

Upstairs

...Hush
a murmur -
a burst of mirth - you laugh.
A giggly boy or two; the
drone of you
mixed with monkey's bonding squeals
slide up the stairs; on polished
paternal air.
Then a deep man's voice where
on...
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Categories: capitulating, family,
Form: Free verse

Making Sense

...We struggle to understand our meager existence in this brief, finite life. We hide under our fragile beliefs from the onslaught of the fiery consequences of our actions; which rain down like well-tar...
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Categories: capitulating, introspection, life, universe,
Form: Blank verse

The Earth Child

...I’m back from the aborted time
Where mother earth’s womb foiled me an innocent prime
A crime precipitated with tears of revenge on my carefree mondaine,
Again I’ve come, ushered by thunderstorms and ...
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Categories: capitulating, angst, me,
Form: Sonnet

~ (~) ~ Whisperings Divine ~ (~) ~

...""REVEALING FREEDOM, PEACE, LIFE, PERFECT TRUTH BELITTLES NO ONE ULTIMATELY!" LIES OFFER
THE SAME TO THE LATTER THROUGH THEIR MISCONCEPTION OF THIS KNOWING IN TURN ONLY AN
ASSUMING DEATH.
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Categories: capitulating, inspirational
Form: Prose Poetry

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