Dampening Poems

Premium MemberOde to Autumn

...How spectacular your crisp, cold colors,
Autumn dear, your bright & brilliant hues.

The fruition of success & failure, previous;
Culminated countenance of consequence.

Bold can be...
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Categories: dampening, autumn,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberSense Of Taste

...An explosion of flavour
Setting the taste buds alight
A tsunami of saliva 
Dampening heat in the cave.
Like the sand beds of the sea,
Deeper elements spring forth
Revealing ingredients
Enrichi...
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Categories: dampening, food,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberA Mid-Summer Cosmic Awareness Cry

...A Mid-Summer Cosmic Awareness Cry

The blue sky’s white clouds, once happy, became weary;
Tears flowed slowly down until a blinking loud outburst occurred:-

Following this occurrence, cloud tea...
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Categories: dampening, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Couplet

Premium Membermessage for today’s youth

...build up of angst in today’s youth
the cause perhaps a suppressed fear
a lifestyle deemed by soul uncouth
dampening vibe of their heart’s cheer

the cure lies in life’s simple things
no strivin...
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Categories: dampening, angst, spiritual, youth,
Form: Hybronnet

words of strings

...damper sound without a box

fuse less high key string fret and the low beckoning

saint the same slide you grew out from

drink news and through lava liqour drips off

damper stage and dampen...
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Categories: dampening, chicago, dance, flying, gothic,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Story of the Lopsided Boy

...Born into a world with only one hand to hold
Delivered by eyes impassive to his existence 
cold fingers brought no warmth to his welcome
While no strength held him high.
The yearning in his eyes ...
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Categories: dampening, boy, fate, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberNIGHT RAIN

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The weatherman said there’s a chance of showers—50% or more.
so I put on my raincoat that morning before I headed out the door.

If the weatherman was wrong…no worries…
the weather in Florida i...
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Categories: dampening, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SOVEREIGN HEAD

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November 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 11-12

Key Verse – 1Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of th...
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Categories: dampening, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Transitions

...Transitions and Contrasts: Just like the Seasons
Scorching, sweltering, drying, draining
The Candle of the Sky, now a supernova
Chirping birds cry out for drops of draught,
The strays of streets ...
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Categories: dampening, absence, angst, change, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTide

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Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides.
Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing.
Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging
Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengagi...
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Categories: dampening, ocean, time,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberZen Mode

...involuntary volition
yet signals bondage
so we remind ourselves
of our piquant dilemma 
moment to moment 
thereby dampening
attention oscillation 
until boundaries blur
head and heart concur
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Categories: dampening, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Rain

...rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving
its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic,
a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags
hitting tree tops, branch...
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Categories: dampening, absence, bird, city, love,
Form: List

Premium MemberNature's Bliss

..."Has solitude ever led your steps down a forest path . . . "

                             Quote by Constance La France


Where crickets chirp and birds harmonize
With leaves who breathe in… ri...
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Categories: dampening, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, creation,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMagical Mud

...First, build a big castle,
sculpting turrets like pros.
Mounding, turning, and working that dirt
with hands deft and facile,
dampening with the hose,
squished through fingers, a warm oozing squi...
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Categories: dampening, adventure, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Other

Premium MemberLaurels of a Certain Win

...To expect sure defeat insures a ravaged heart
Returns without the laurels of a certain win
Dampening one's ardor from a challenging start,
Perhaps, it was better this race not to begin...
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Categories: dampening, confidence, encouraging, perspective, race,
Form: Sonnet

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