Derailing Poems

No Ego Joe Show

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On every outing…no touting or fostering of pouty louty shouty postering…

No flouting of the definition of classical ebb and flow rendition…

Yet boundaries scouting…Rooty sedition routing th...
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Categories: derailing, spoken word, sports,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberBUILDING BLOCK-

...BUILDING BLOCK

Temporal they are higher power,
unveiled to me who are temporary obstacle
 that's temporal derailing me for abating power
If this be meant to be compliance unequivoc...
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Categories: derailing, adventure, anxiety, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Rhyme


Calmer Sharma Karma

...So that’s it for Rohit…and have to admit his parting gambit

Little to cheer in his career nadir year ..was all rather *****

Hard not to discard someone supposed to be leading the men

Even wi...
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Categories: derailing, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Scattered

...Hi. I’m feeling scattered.
I’m completely overrun upstairs. where thoughts should be processed individually, at a normal speed. Nope, not for me.
Currently they’re racing. It seems like they’ve cre...
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Categories: derailing, mental health, time,
Form: Rhyme

A God for Every Soul

...Who won’t pass like a shooting star through this fleeting life?  
I, too, will not reach the end of this dazzling strife.  
I’ve lived as I could, gathering what knowledge seemed right,  
But not ...
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Categories: derailing, night,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMusic vs Poetry

...learning piano
train of thought derailing notes
window flower grows...
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Categories: derailing, appreciation, art,
Form: Haiku

Whose Got Next Part 2

...No one will remember 
all the names of the bodies
laying in pools of blood 
in all those back alleys
and side streets
burned out warehouses
and by-the-hour motels…
They don’t talk about them…
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Categories: derailing, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Purple Man

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Dr. Zebediah Killgrave, male, human species, 5'11', normal weight.
born in Rejeka, Croatia, charismatic, a physician turned international spy. 
On a mission to infiltrate a chemica...
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Categories: derailing, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Bello Abisola Ewaola

...A year through glorious gain
Even though troubles pour like rain
How efforts seems to be derailing!
Shockingly, Jehovah comes bailing
Then thoughts run head so insane

When the Lord stamped it ...
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Categories: derailing, appreciation, art, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

The Convolution

...On the eve of 25 December
We expected joy, gifts,
But rivulets of blood and tears;
Gushed over the land.
When Vodka surrogates the lamb;
All in the game are futile
The day is rendered no specia...
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Categories: derailing, religion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHer Life

...Her Life is filled with trauma
She hides it very well
Now in to her 50’s
People still can’t tell.

A life that’s filled with pain
the hurt is very real
she tries so very hard
the pain she can...
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Categories: derailing, depression, hurt, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPaulette -2

...She pirouettes at the hall of fame,
Magnifying swan-silhouettes in delight
As silky red wings are in glaring flame,
She pirouettes in the hall of fame
Red Swan of Night is Paulette’s name.
While...
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Categories: derailing, dance,
Form: Triolet

The Closed Door As Calls

...Just as my sleep is going deep,
The nightlong foe, my closed door calls. 

Derailing my dream state of sleep, 
Upsetting it, the closed door calls. 

Like cicadas’ continuous clip, 
I wonder w...
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Categories: derailing, heartbroken,
Form: Ghazal

Premium MemberOcean Dolphins-

..."Lo! the dolphin dotes laughs
My passion is the maritime coast
'Ocean!' said I, 'thing of seawater.'
Oceans dolphins 
In a kingdom full of coastlines
Eagerly I looked for the seaway
I c...
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Categories: derailing, adventure, analogy, animal, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium Member8 Billion Wards of the States

...All 8 billion of us
have mental illness
some 
subtly 
so
others profound
its a matter of degree
of shade..

some reach out - adapt
become chefs-CEOS- presidents
others curl inward
canniba...
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Categories: derailing, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

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