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Deflects Poems - Poems about Deflects

Shadowed Games
... Shadow Games While my back was turned, you slipped into the store, Went to the washroom, then out once more. You could’ve retraced your steps, stayed out of sight, But you leapt the chain—m......

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Categories: deflects, angst, betrayal, blessing, dark,
Form: Free verse
I Will Be Yours
...I will be the shoulder to catch your tears, The chapter where your stories unfold. I will be the door to your happiness, The pillar that stands in your sorrow's hold. I will be the teddy that s......

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Categories: deflects, 10th grade, cute, emotions,
Form: Ode



Im fine
...When I say "fine," it's a cloak for the storm, A veneer of calm that I carefully form. Behind the calm words, there's a tempest of doubt, A façade that shields what I’m truly about. Fine is the......

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Categories: deflects, absence, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member gilded
...This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break. Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a gall......

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Categories: deflects, art, dad, daughter, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Stolen Days
...Our Stolen Days The given days we take, Childlike, heedless of consequence. We swallow them as our due, Our entitled share of happiness At least, the consideration of the stake Each of us hol......

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Categories: deflects, angst, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Have we seen God
...Is not God a concept, till we see Him? How will memorising scriptures assist? Conditioned beliefs make our soul’s light dim. Love alone is real and that’s life’s gist. A Hindu believes God takes ......

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Categories: deflects, god, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Kingfisher
...The kingfisher is the diving tip of a rainbow, a chromatic splinter, a deadly certainty piercing sky and water. All morning it has perched high atop a dead tree. The sun rose softly (good for ......

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Categories: deflects, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Final Due Date
...A moment of truth a century of lies The left hand deflects what the right hand decries A little bit pregnant the ending begins A monster gestating —and living within (The New Room: D......

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Categories: deflects, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen Mode
...Observer observing the observed, both us Inhibits spontaneity, deflects the flow Until both aspects become one There then is no one here Save awareness Self-aware Free will ~ whos......

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Categories: deflects, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dance Divine
... The dance divine The dance divine at play, both reveals and conceals, cyclic pleasure and pain, deflects thoughts onto form; life gift boon, becomes bane. The dance di......

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Categories: deflects, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member An Inspired Poet
...A weaver of words in deep quiet reflects In his mind’s prism, many a thought deflects Within him the rainbow colors of passion rage He scripts songs of beauty and rhyme on page after page He ha......

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Categories: deflects, emotions, passion, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 19
... “It is time,” he said as he turned back to the others. “Andghul, you and DynDoeth, make your way as closely and quietly as you can toward the bridge. When you feel you are close enough,......

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Categories: deflects, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Mirrors Defined
...The reflection of what you see To me, it deflects the purities that my spectral lenses catch Matching with every insecurity of Impurities overflowing as water through a gutter Cluttering me from ......

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Categories: deflects, analogy, identity, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She's Like the Moon
...I'm not good at moon guessing, but God created many a blessing; and the moon is just one of them. I'm neither scholar nor theologian, but I observed that God made the heavenly bodies, making no ......

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Categories: deflects, gender, moon,
Form: Verse
An Afternoon Walk
...An Afternoon Walk. It is after midday, And, filled with wine and warm food, We flatten the wet grass With clumsy trudge. Leaves reveal the sun’s prismatic flashes, Intermittent arrows that......

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Categories: deflects, death, grave, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse

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