Deadens Poems - Poems about Deadens

...Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before —Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven Just a Minute Too Late Those inky shadows, follow me, cleverly devised in the corner......

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...Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pains of stupidity It lowers the shield that lets one think they have complete validity......

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...Cold January, but so many stars. I view these from my high apartment window. I sit and watch during the longs nights. Looking to Heaven, for constellations. Restful. Then below, frenetic, comet li......

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... Coloured Dogs Grey is the dog that haunts and whines; Whose boredom curls, whose mist entwines; Whose ennui dulls a lively mind, Whom inspiration deadens. Blue is th......

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...Hidden in the lies the preachers tell Gagging on the brimstone stench of hell The words He spoke back then Have different meanings now The idols now - kids drawings A purple, haloed cow. T......

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... Light as air, glowing In a sincere prayer Whispering inspiration Flavored with imagination Vibrant hues of wonder Silent, like a soft wind, Breathless with emotion Feelings poured ou......

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...On the morning after, from a stormy rainy night I sit on my stoop watching the sun grow bright Stillness and silence deaf my ear Silenced sounds are everywhere Chicks peek from a hole in ......

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...Childhood memories bring warm thoughts to mind, Old friends, family, and innocent times. Merry-go-rounds and childhoods left behind, Illusions, mimicking magic someti......

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...A cautionary tale of nocturnal abduction Of trickery born of unearthly corruption Heed these my words, I state categorical Of evil so foul, in a world diabolical No hu......

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...Down with pessimism Drown not in negativism Beware of escapism Steer clear of cynicism Keep far from fanaticism It only invites antagonism Too lonely is monasticism Too stifling, col......

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...Did you think you had control Did you think you had control, Ha, ha! Did ya think you had control? Did you think you had control Ha, Ha! You cast yourself a god In a solo one-act play You w......

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...Intellectual hygiene… the Poet declines That dull antiseptic, that deadens your mind Once washed and then scrubbed, the truth a charade Academic consensus —the Muse in her grave (Vill......

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...VIII In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves, Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate"; And guileful Cassandra, she laid her two murdered ......

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...To be. To feel. To feel, to love, To love. To rage, To rage, to die Like a good Romantic, or to sleep like this, Ghosting about Like a loose plastic bag That flaps on a windy night Under a so......

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...My car, my crappy house, the job I loathe and clothes I wear, the girl I say I love and rarely really speak to; fitted glove that deadens all my senses, all I loathe and praise at once is part of......

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