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Dereliction Poems - Poems about Dereliction

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Premium Member People Of Pretense
... I’ve never been where they tread, chasing mirage through desert storm. I look at evasive eyes perennially petrified, see their void vision fixed fast on fantasy, shroud of de......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, analogy, dark, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sorry, I Can't Write a Poem
...I’m glad to hear you’re back in action. It gives me a certain satisfaction To know that you are not in traction Or have a wisdom tooth impaction; And I would like to celebrate This happy outco......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
... The sun has long receded from the sky, Pallid gloom invades the wintry air, Morbid silence hangs over him, Memory sleeps like hibernating toads. Trees stand bare with no leaves t......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, angst, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust Covered Dreams
...Sadly He watched the old barn Wither, fade, weep Forgotten by time. Neglect A dereliction of youth Seeking the future Forgetting the past. The old harnesses cracked Tools bent by gravity’s i......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, age, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
...Fork git about spooner hiz ham And join (singing the words in the next paragraph) whether alone in a traffic jam basting, cooking, then eating a lamb prepared by thee missus a superb culinar......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Old Belfast
...OLD BELFAST No hooters belch and screech in the mornings anymore Industry has disappeared from the City’s working core The Factories have all closed their gates a long, long time ago Now silent......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, city, depression, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fragility of Dream
...In the hued sunset hour, on the yearning canvas I paint your floral face. The pink petals of smile configure my dream. Ravaged by sandstorm of time, on dwindling dunes of despair, fut......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, analogy, dream, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Derelict
..."She will reign on the cliff above the quay, this derelict house restored to her former beauty. No beast of the field, nor bird in the air shall wander her halls. Now she belongs to me." ......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Travel
...on auto pilot in slow motion my conveyor belt keeps moving on a creaky carousel aroused in boredom suspended in apathy a jester on weary shoulders keeps mocking teasing and picking at scabs......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Surreal Test
...This democratic republic, where most of us Have toiled through and reside. Is the most difficult, complex, and lethargic System, that's ever been contrived. It requires an educated elec......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, corruption, freedom, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Flimsy Heart
...fluid enclosed me trapped in memory my heart in a husk feel the bow... of anguish candle fire... firefly your face I love dereliction are cheering oars are fading... on the shore I h......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Spy Who Ate Me
... A termite’s a guy who just loves the woods It gnaws him because he’s just not understood His nightmares, a version of Sentricon hell You love oak and cherry, why can’t he as well? A vil......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, insect,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Not Squared Away
...Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right “Not Squared-Away” Crawling and sliding through slimy debris Knees scraped raw on the gritty ......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, devotion, humor, military,
Form: Narrative
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
...Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession... As September daze will soon arrive recollections from a psychologically checkered past loom large recalling tragic storied days of mein......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Reasons I Write
...I write because my world revolves around it, It pulls me to itself, It’s ionic bonding. I write because it’s a relief for me, I overhaul myself, My struggles and battles are let out. I writ......Read the rest...
Categories: dereliction, art, career, fun, happiness,
Form: Free verse

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