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Defunct Poems - Poems about Defunct

The Wheels Go Round and Round
...Existence, existing and then the emptying out, the exit. X marks the spot where dots are always laid to rest. I have been pulling a little red meat wagon existing just before its hard rubber ......

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Categories: defunct, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Gallery of Passing Clouds
...These thoughts we frame and title hang now from long defunct dendrites, made branchless by the passé and pointless now all strung-up upon threadbare strings. Ones or twice the hanged are molest......

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Categories: defunct, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A Flowerless Corpse
...Snowing-- a hiemal, deathly air Their frigid, frostbitten fingers hold nothing Uncomfortable silence washes over all there A petalless, thorny rose someone is clutching Her corpse,......

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Categories: defunct, angst, appreciation, betrayal, dark,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Discontinued?
...Eventualities don't apply to me (I can dream) no matter their presence in the mirrors of reality Always one step ahead though the shrinking distance haunts like an early frost - t......

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Categories: defunct, life,
Form: Free verse
Sprawling in America
... Trucks hauling away defunct Malls. One city has been transported to another, until superimposed, only the name are different. Freeways chase endless miles, looking for more things to shift, ......

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Categories: defunct, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku by Michael R. Burch late November: climate skeptics scoff but the geese no longer migrate. The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct by Michael R. Burch Th......

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Categories: defunct, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Medical
...I am in that basement ward, the disused one, the one they park you in on the way to the morgue. The usual clutter of broken wheelchairs, torn screens, long defunct electrical equipment. I ......

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Categories: defunct, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sit it Out
...Dark, heavy clouds hung low I wanted to continue but I just couldn't go My vision was blurred and nearly defunct Rising winds began to harpoon my wheels, leaving me feeling stumped Then a su......

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Categories: defunct, blessing, courage, emotions, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great Riddle
... “The Great Riddle” Humanism became a new religion in a world where romancing gods at war sanctifying acts of violence for their own levels of commandments, became defu......

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Categories: defunct, humanity, muse, riddle,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mocking Dance of the Dead
...Written: September 19, 2023 Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One "Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is where it all......

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Categories: defunct, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gift of Benevolence
...Written: September 09, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ In a world where boons often fade, And kindness can be obnoxiously betrayed. There is a sp......

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Categories: defunct, analogy, appreciation, confidence, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Father's Garden
...It was summer time, a time for planting and reaping and when it came to my dad well he could make that garden sing He spent hours nurturing his plum tomatoes, while I his offspring could only ad......

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Categories: defunct, appreciation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Defunct Night
...Afore the dusk My soul's frail, lone, and goner Sadness cover' me like a busk Concern' who's to be the new coiner? While only nix available was flunk Onset of the defunct night. I falter in ......

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Categories: defunct, fear, gothic, scary,
Form: Other
Premium Member Blurred Anaemic Edge
...The urge to travel, to spread your wings and fly away, never rooted to one spot. never spotted on a route. signpost now defunct, map a feeble pointer, direction only by one’s nose. Intuition ......

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Categories: defunct, art, day, deep, dream,
Form: Imagism
Man, thy goose is nigh but cooked
...With no more than a handful of tired genes, It seems, thou hast not much time to mend ways, O rid thy blinkers in the rest of days, Long have ye played lead roles with meagre means, Ye can’t ......

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Categories: defunct, life, men, nature,
Form: Sonnet

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