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Deflect Poems - Poems about Deflect

Forget regret, riffs on what ifs
... Forget riffs of regrets But To the hilt We tilt to Inbuilt lilt A guilt quilt Can jilt & wilt But No tiffs with what ifs Won’t let you fret Circumspect.. I find Older you get ......

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Categories: deflect, hope,
Form: Free verse
Skin Too Thin
... The chest, a hollow cavern, air catching on jagged edges where a heart used to beat in rhythm. Now, only echoes of laughter, ghosts of shared whispers. Skin, suddenly too thin, every casu......

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Categories: deflect, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Silence of the Alibi
... The clock ticks on, a witness cold and stark, To tales constructed in the fading dark. A web of words meticulously spun, To shield the truth, the damage that was done. An alibi, a carefully......

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Categories: deflect, silence, words,
Form: Rhyme
Hell Hot Water
...The little beads rise to the surface of her skin. The skin that seems to have 'gotten scratched by the cat' One too many times. But as she goes to erase all evidence of her deflect She feels......

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Categories: deflect, 8th grade, anxiety, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are Somebody
...You are somebody this truth is clear, Flawless, fierce, and free from fear. ......

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Categories: deflect, appreciation, confidence, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Role Models - Then and Now
...In school when I was being raised the role models who then were praised were the American icons— George Washington, “I cannot tell a lie” Honest Abe, a straight-shooting kind of guy Later we hea......

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Categories: deflect, integrity, jesus, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Silent Visitor
...It comes whisking in when least expected, Its steps silent, its grip too cold. It slips through cracks, unseen and unchecked, No whistle blown, no stories told. Whether the doors are opened or ......

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Categories: deflect, death, grave, lost, missing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member body box - what i am now v2
...if you saw me the way i see myself maybe you'd get it. "count your calories, read the nutrition panels, diet, exercise," i know. believe me, i know. "it's for your health," turns i......

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Categories: deflect, anti bullying, body, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Downbringing
...They didn't have an upbringing it was more of a downbringing instead. It can happen when a parent acts more like a friend. Stuffed animals are commissioned to cloak, deflect and defend milk ca......

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Categories: deflect, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Rage
...Rage My rage, it expires down deep to desires but I must keep the fight to turn on the light. But the light is the sun and surely everyone must feel its effect. Well, except if you're ......

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Categories: deflect, anger, angst, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member what i am now
...if you saw me the way i see myself maybe you'd get it. "count your calories, read the nutrition panels, diet, exercise," i know. believe me, i know. "it's for your health," turns i......

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Categories: deflect, sad, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
...A Place Not Meant To Be PART: I (810 of 1487 words) #1: A Day Begins Sand grains station elevated for want in the cool starless relics spell of dark a sun behold horizo......

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Categories: deflect, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Deflections
...People put salt on a wound when they want to deflect attention......

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Categories: deflect, confusion, dark,
Form: Senryu
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
...Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes wordsworth their weight in gold (exhumed from the pith of these lovely bones - beclothed wi......

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Categories: deflect, 12th grade, absence, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shake it off
...It's a day to do my own head in Deflect anything nice As I place myself in the bin Analyse between every line Cast doubt on myself Ensure I'm not doing fine I can talk more to get free No, I c......

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Categories: deflect, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

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