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Decompress Poems - Poems about Decompress

Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

...I celebrated my father's birthday this last April 4th, 2025
He would have been 75,
Yet 7 years ago, a white butterfly laid him to rest, with the rest of his family around his casket,
And my face p...
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Categories: decompress, butterfly, dad, death, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

On lunch, munch, and punch

...And leaving all else,  they debate on lunch.
To one, lunch time was waste, hence, break-less munch.
The other felt, lunch-less
Would no new glory bless
To UK, nor hoary 
Return to old glory,
Lu...
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Categories: decompress, food, humor,
Form: Limerick



Lost and Found

...Have you ever forgotten
where your happy place is?
I have reason to believe I’m
the only one who has.
Sondering too deeply,
selfishly playing the victim.
I’m good at that.

I have questions f...
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Categories: decompress, depression, dream, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhy Am I Missing You in Wyomissing?

...Why am I missing you in Wyomissing

In Wyomissing where WiFi waves warp Whitman's words
I'm wiki-wishing scrolling through digitized déjà vu
Mississippi .mp3s Mississauga .gifs Missy Elliott remi...
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Categories: decompress, heartbroken, lonely, loss, love,
Form: Lyric

BOLD by Brunch, with a side of a bunch of BS or Say-Less

...The limb elongates in the bodies flayed attempt at survival.
Internal struggle, intelligently struggling in the maintaining of oxygen in a Bold  yet desperate display. Feeble gravities
Lungi...
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Categories: decompress, beautiful, change, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberExcursions Rondelet

...I feel restless,
my heart’s filled with touring notions;
I feel restless;
Longing not just to decompress,
my soul demands wild excursions;
Do you wanna cross the oceans?
I feel restless....
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Categories: decompress, emotions, feelings, sea,
Form: Other

Premium MemberContemplating braces

...I’m contemplating braces 
My belts don’t seem to work
They just don’t seem to get a grip
Now I’m of a certain girth 

I shop at Marks and Spencer’s 
I like their thermal vests 
I bought a pair...
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Categories: decompress, age, health, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Link On the Brink

...As  you watched the abuse carried out,
My soul was broken, no doubt.

A connection can never be made,
As my nurturer and protector, I was betrayed. 

Setting the stage for scant regard, 
Not k...
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Categories: decompress, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIts Sunday

...Sunday’s an auspicious day to suggest
that you, as a student, take a recess
In order to try and decompress
from our studying and stress

Now, of course, if you’re so possessed,
or some might ev...
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Categories: decompress, humor, school, stress, student,
Form: Rhyme

The Theft of Moral Defense

...Dawn crests the peaks of barren refuse, enthralling masses and demanding rations of passion from muck

Stuck into walls, hanging out halfway, suspended by calls of anguish and hate

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Little d...
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Categories: decompress, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Can I Rest

...Can I rest?
That's the quest
Most of us are addicted to stress
Which helps when things are next, next, next
But when they slow down life's a mess

Why the later I go to sleep, the earlier I wak...
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Categories: decompress, analogy, appreciation, break up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDate With the Moon

...The sound of a cow peeing
is the wettest sound, let go

like a bucket slush on a barn slab
or so my grandfather used to

say. When my son comes home
I hear his fire hose upstairs

and rememb...
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Categories: decompress, age, body, humor,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Nimbus Express

... Invitation to visit Olympus
Predestined noble affair
Feeling extremely timorous
But, Apollo will be there.

Anticipation is killing me
To think I'll meet immortals
Thrilling thought, ...
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Categories: decompress, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

D Poem

...This damned domain of dominoes destined to fall
This doddering diatribe deliberately designed
This dwelling damp as deadwintered Darlington
This deeper dream of dungeons and dragons

This desper...
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Categories: decompress, word play, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSipping Tea With the Moon

...Just sitting, sipping tea with the Moon; 
Across she glows in her party dress,
I send my dreams up on a balloon; 

With each soft gaze ideas are strewn; 
Under this sky it’s easy to decompress, ...
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Categories: decompress, emotions, feelings, imagination, moon,
Form: Villanelle

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