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Commonplace Poems - Poems about Commonplace

Premium Member Mewling Fear: A Question
...Darkness engulfed me I struggled to adjust to the shadows blinked when my vision brought to light— an empty room, rumpled sheets of an unmade bed a tear-stained pillow where I'd laid my head T......

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Categories: commonplace, dark, fear,
Form: Narrative
View From the Ground
... The sky, a distant painted masterpiece, Unfurling blues where airy currents cease. From here, the giants loom, their towers high, Their peaks like needles pricking at the sky. The hurried f......

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Categories: commonplace, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Commonplace - Magritte
...mark reality by a notch in a tree honest recognition of the not dissimilar I wish I wouldn't notice so much - try to make it out I should dress smart, stare blankly ......

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Categories: commonplace, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Hermann Hesse translation of 'The Poet' and 'Without You'
...The Poet by Hermann Hesse translation by Michael R. Burch Only upon me, the lonely one, Do this endless night’s stars shine As the fountain gurgles its faery song. For me alone, the lonely ......

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Categories: commonplace, hair, lonely, love, night,
Form: Free verse
Red Flags
...The commonplace entertains the unspeakable. Horror yellows in vaults. It is all recorded, all labeled all explained or condemned. We keep the worst atrocities close, create libraries to wareh......

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Categories: commonplace, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member God Night
...A brightly feathered crooner daffodils along a hidden creek the bombs mimicking raindrops cracking the halo of good dreams. Assassins are ever commonplace in critical condition is the human ra......

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Categories: commonplace, god, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Almost Tossed it Out
... As I am growing older and life becoming lonelier, The past beckons, and though I had almost tossed it out, The idea of going back to my native land and my people Now ......

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Categories: commonplace, desire, loneliness, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PS Atheists Get Your Own Dirt
... Part I Rock n Roll came through the slave trade The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made” “Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said] The blues helped through the strug......

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Categories: commonplace, conflict, culture, history, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Giving **** Butterfly Oddquain
... Gifts commonplace; You’re the giving ****; Being bled you get used to; Share ......

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Categories: commonplace, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
Premium Member INSPIRATION aujourd'hui
...away from poetry in the commonplace- What now ignites my muse your contest topics I often use 'twixt tween my afternoon snooze......

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Categories: commonplace, inspirational, thank you,
Form: Bio
Premium Member MY STILL LIFE
...a disguised symbolism in an immersive conception enveloped & surrounded with imagery of the commonplace revealed by stimulations of the mind an illumination becomes ......

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Categories: commonplace, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member In the whisper of twilight, where shadows meet the edge of dreams
...In the whisper of twilight, where shadows meet the edge of dreams, Lies the truth of our times, a somber murmur carried by the wind of mediocrity. Once, the soul soared with the ambition of stars; ......

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Categories: commonplace, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member how
... o how do moons deceive the dusk one breath from gone to there … like tapestries with Guipure lace stained soft with blue … and bare? o how should I yet mourn the......

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Categories: commonplace, analogy, imagery, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside Out Outside In
...("Citadel of Light Merit Badge" - #67, 2016, original oil) Inside Out Outside In The world is nothing If not a continuum of beliefs and practices Along a spectrum of consciousness Wit......

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Categories: commonplace, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......

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Categories: commonplace, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

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