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Chests Poems - Poems about Chests

The Edge of One and Other
... A candle burns beside the void, its flame a soft and stubborn cry— a whisper warm, the dark destroyed, but shadows bloom as sparks pass by. A beggar sleeps beneath a sign that sells a watc......

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Categories: chests, grave, life, light, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Underneath that Grand old Flag
...Natives interrupted Guns pointed to their chests Blown away like beautiful dandelions Into that sweltering sun Americans lollygag In their newly claimed land Under that grand old flag Slav......

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Categories: chests, america, discrimination, prejudice, slavery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wrung Betwixt the Sky and Sea
... Blue on blue a sandwich of the sky and sea clutching on jealously to the distant horizon. They both join hands, laugh, and emit their features, creatures and apparitions. Streaming......

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Categories: chests, blue, day, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poppies burn like love under the sun that births longing
...Poppies burn like love under the sun that births longing, Let me ask for forgiveness, to touch your face with light, To be your sunbeam, to be a halo on your delicate brow, To caress your skin wit......

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Categories: chests, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The truth is that we are always children
...The truth is that we are always children, lost in the labyrinth of time with maps drawn from the dreams of the night, Children with scraped knees from life's falls, with veins like the roots of anci......

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Categories: chests, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Mind Powers
...What I’m saying. What is decaying. I have enough at home. Feeling sad as that dome. The office building over there. Is as strange as hair. There could be enough. But treasure chests ar......

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Categories: chests, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Along with the Thunder
... The air thickens, a velvet cloak drawn across a gasping sky. No sudden crack but a low groan first, from the belly of the coming storm. It's the earth's deep shudder, a premonition rippling ......

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Categories: chests, nature,
Form: Free verse
What more do I have to offer?
...Nothingness knows my name… It shames me even when i’m in the middle of everyone I lost all hope hopping for the kindest gestures I’ve crawled between growling creatures What more do I h......

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Categories: chests, africa, anxiety, black african
Form: Free verse
Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......

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Categories: chests, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled
...Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled, Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence, Souls enclosed in a shell of p......

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Categories: chests, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......

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Categories: chests, poetry,
Form: Free verse
the big turtle
...The big turtle of Galapagos. Turtles, in general, are not good at communicating with anyone, at least those odd figures who talk a lot and sometimes sing The big turtle of the Galapagos does reme......

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Categories: chests, 1st grade, absence, adventure,
Form: ABC
You Can’t Take What You Can’t Give
...I’ll handle the rejection as a merit in my spirit, as I did once when I was a kid. The townspeople will turn all of the sprinklers on when spring has made its arrival apparent on April Fools. The......

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Categories: chests, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a land where the shadows of fear dance on endless walls
...In a land where the shadows of fear dance on endless walls, Justice has melted away like a dream scattered by the cold night wind, Abductions slip through the dense fog like uninvited phantoms, Ci......

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Categories: chests, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In your womb I burst
...In your womb I burst Passion holds my heart's desire, Lust and ravage, light my fire. Lovers embrace in Twilight's choir, Songs echo to the tops of spires. It starts with a simple kiss, Lip......

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Categories: chests, passion,
Form: Rhyme

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