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Ciphers Poems - Poems about Ciphers

Premium MemberThe person I want to be

...Is one’s destiny written on the winds?
When a seed is buried; is it set free?
Do ciphers resonate within the bends
of limbs; or are they rooted with the tree? 

I’m reaching for the stars I am s...
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Categories: ciphers, deep, destiny, dream, extended
Form: Sonnet

An Illusion

...We are a species gnawing at the roots of existence, hellbent on self-immolation, our every endeavor a funiculus of futility. The argent legacy of our forebears, squandered by imbecilic hands that mol...
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Categories: ciphers, dark,
Form: Free verse



I could not whisper the story

...Tongue touched, 
a diaphanous zephyr of ephemeral desire, 
rustles the parchment of our sepulchral scripture, 
where our connubial covenant is inscribed,
in the cryptographic ledger of the damned...
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Categories: ciphers, appreciation, beauty, confidence, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberCIPHERS

...ciphers of the unknown * A MIRO EKPHRASIS

 red dots,
a frog
blue
  coins
a violet fish
    in the deep blue
 rain falls
breathes
 in  black
  & love with rainbows
 spiral down
  to  car...
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Categories: ciphers, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberMIRO titlista 39-41

...dew falling
  awakens
     shadowed
figures

firmanent
   lights
in
the morning
             rain
irridescent
ciphers
  revealing
    the
          unknown...
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Categories: ciphers, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium MemberEmagi Ciphers

...Joan Miro 'CIPHERS'


             ____
             ____
             ____
                         S -> S
•))).        °
S -> E.    /
          °\
             °
                        ...
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Categories: ciphers, poems,
Form: Shape

Undo Unmake

...But breakfast’s subject beckons: 
the booster affair effect in Tumblr-
land? The digital map surveillance
co-sponsor the soccer mom sauce
minivan project, relay & speech 
to cell battery fiasco....
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Categories: ciphers, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Invictum

...Against wild dogma and feathery wit,
Shall your sound idioms and wisdom
Outshine fickle folios of mortal sages;
Proving verity in its irrepressible form.

Your arresting dictums shall outshine
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Categories: ciphers, allegory, allusion, destiny, devotion,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberNo-Some-Thing

...Nothing to say
do beyond robotic routines
…beyond eluding erosion

Something to say
do beyond repetitive rituals
…beyond evading entropy

Nowhere to go
hide behind cacophonous clowns
…behin...
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Categories: ciphers, anger, angst, dark, social,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberBeauty Briefs

...Image of Spring Flowers Colorful Flower Bed provided by Pixabay 

Beauty Briefs

Tulips escaping kisses
Yardbird noses ciphers scent
Poppies aim none are misses
Views gave letters of ...
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Categories: ciphers, flower, imagery, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberImages Coalesce

...a snail licks
         red dots

             a frog
               blue coins
a violet fish
in
the deep blue
                  Seine

rain falls
         breathes blue
in the
      blac...
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Categories: ciphers, art, poetry, tribute,
Form: Imagism

Second Sight Ii

...Sonnet: Second Sight (II)
by Michael R. Burch

(Newborns see best at a distance of 8 to 14 inches.)

Wiser than we know, the newborn screams,
red-faced from breath, and wonders what life means
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Categories: ciphers, baby, birth, child, kid,
Form: Sonnet

Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv

...Sonnets XVII-XXIV

Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch

The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows...
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Categories: ciphers, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberEmptiness

...I am full
Of emptiness
I long for longing
Crave contentment

The insensate pain
Of intangible touch
Indecipherable ciphers
Choreographed madness

Craggy comfort
Of blunt condolence
The de...
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Categories: ciphers, depression, loneliness, longing, lost,
Form: Free verse

Prognostication

...Most rigorous astrology can hardly divine
Why flamy galactic orbs often burning fall; 
Or the calm pull behind shiniest meteorites'
Hurtling lower from their neat nestlings tall. 

I own that ap...
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Categories: ciphers, christian, destiny, god, heaven,
Form: Didactic

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