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Creased Poems - Poems about Creased

Premium Member Both Sides Now
...'Both Sides Now' on YouTube Music by Joni Mitchell Poet's lyrics: Bows on solemn flower blooms and scented layers of flared perfume flow down rows of headstones and tombs. I've looked......

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Categories: creased, baby, cry, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Always Losing
...In a café’s hush, two lovers as pawns, at dawn’s closed gate before it dawns. They clutch a paper, creased and thin, their vows on trial for breathing sin. The soldiers come with boots of dust,......

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Categories: creased, political,
Form: Quatrain



Ode to Krish
... She is not made of atoms, but aftermaths the kind that linger in a room long after the lights remember to flicker back on. Her spine? An origami of fallen yesterdays, creased by collapse, ......

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Categories: creased, appreciation, art, career, character,
Form: Free verse
My Simplest Form
...I am broken that is my simplest form. Not in shards, but in folded faults like paper creased too many times it becomes soft, almost sacred. They called me whole when I was quiet. They mist......

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Categories: creased, loneliness,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Fulcrum of a Rose
...The crescent ~ half awake, yet wholly aware, like the essence of my presence ~ drowsy and divine ~ glowing in golden hues is the mentor leading me through scented silence. I am the thorn......

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Categories: creased, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse



The Dry Tear
...The sandman moved to the corner as I eyed him. The pain creased, and sheared my attention. Pain would shoot blanks at my head. Running would only excite the strange feeling of being followed but not ......

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Categories: creased, courage,
Form: Free verse
Without Mirrors
...He forgot how his jaw used to stretch in loud laughter. No mirrors to watch his days— just windows, and distant eyes. His beard trimmed by finger’s feel, a chunk missed Here and there.......

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Categories: creased, for him, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superfly Cool In the Wonder Years of the Ghettoverse
...I wonder if Pops will lie out in his trademark bell-bottoms—faded denim flares that split the air like his cool, bending time, making room for his strut as if the horizon would yield to his next step......

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Categories: creased, black african american, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leverage
... Written: May 19, 2025, for contest by Edward Ibeh Quote: "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." By Rumi ......

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Categories: creased, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Seventeen
...The black pen with black ink is running out, The paper on the desk is clean but creased. It must hurt to have been crumpled up and straightened out time after time again, Only to be used......

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Categories: creased, 12th grade, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Rush Hour
...I clock in my own breath, Minutes stack like folding chairs. My limbs queue for permission, Time herds me through its turnstiles. We all wear the same silence— Pressed suits, creased with wantin......

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Categories: creased, work,
Form: Verse
Premium Member travel light
... * I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions and pho......

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Categories: creased, analogy, child, war,
Form: Epic
Waste of the Day
... Sam Mud Mafia dawg Prairie Rebel hound Soggy dog Carter Crumpled can of Faces on a map A map with lonely corners bent and creased Roaring fish at opening No more bedspins Not even a bed w......

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Categories: creased, africa, bird, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Aaliyah
...She is not made of atoms, but aftermaths— the kind that linger in a room long after the lights remember to flicker back on. Her spine? An origami of fallen yesterdays, creased by collapse, b......

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Categories: creased, strength,
Form: Ode
Finding Poetry’s Voice
...I used to think poems lived in leather-bound books, guarded by professors with stern looks, that words worth speaking needed permission, academic citations, scholarly submission. I sat in corne......

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Categories: creased, anxiety, confidence, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

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