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Despoil Poems - Poems about Despoil

Premium Member Fallen Leaves
... Humans are quite a deciduous lot. It's our nature, but not Mother's motif. We fall from grace without faith and belief when fleshly flaws make us stumble, besot. Tousled emotions are tie......

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Categories: despoil, conflict, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
What Are These Words
...What are these words that rage with hate and war That scream with bullets’ searing, lethal roar That slash with livid flames the midnight sky And with a tongue that lubricates the lie Despoil the......

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Categories: despoil, anger, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Sonnet



Olympus
...Lust's Sickness throws off the yoke, of cure? Defiant in-body, pleasures obscure. A mask, of pride, a lost soul-in vogue capture, a hell-ride in the belly of a beastly whore. The salt crystal......

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Categories: despoil, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
The Broken Language of Love
...The language of love is wordless. See that simple yellow and white daisy in the green meadow? Go uproot it, snatch it from its perfect setting that place Perfection made for it. Now it is i......

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Categories: despoil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whitewashing the Fence
...I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch private parts of me I keep concealed, and don't talk about so much ......

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Categories: despoil, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



I Weep Some Buckets of Tears
...Here comes an opportunity to make our tension seep But for those who have made their stomach and future cheap I weep some buckets of tears in my silence camp Over the ignorance that may likely des......

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Categories: despoil, political,
Form: Rhyme
Arius
...Unholy heretic your relics despoil Augustine in tears —embracing the shame (Dreamsleep: August, 2022)......

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Categories: despoil, religious,
Form: Free verse
Today
...Today was not so bad, Yesterday, pure horror; Tomorrow, I cannot predict, Yet in terror I live; A touch so much I dread, For suspicion is my daily bread; Every word a leery undertone, Every sm......

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Categories: despoil, child abuse, children, depression,
Form: Free verse
War Mars the Face of Man
...War mars the face of Man, Pitied, unpitied. Though This be known to all men, We realists connive. Thrice-prancing priests in March Have made red their faces, Have conspired to despoil Anew sum......

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Categories: despoil, conflict, mythology, war,
Form: Political Verse
Uncertainties Lair
...Sneaking into the enemy camp, the guards all fast asleep Crawling past the sorrow and pain, old promises to keep Deep within the saboteurs grasp, for one last time, alone Burrowing into u......

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Categories: despoil, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom a La Sophie
... Wisdom à la Sophie ---------------------- Behind calm mind can come a fear, So conquer it, and sprightly. A fear must not despoil your year. Quick, quell it. Live your ......

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Categories: despoil, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Dinner
...The ham was golden brown With glazed sugar upon it The Turkey was there to A breast for you and a thigh for me The yams just came out of the oven I need a mixed drink Father is in watching TV......

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Categories: despoil, christmas, drink,
Form: I do not know?
Ode of Famine
...A prosy prose for deity to mourn, As the hunger stricken wobbles the ground. Oh! the old retinues that feed besides our ribs. Come again with their unbearable tax payers, While the labourers' st......

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Categories: despoil, society,
Form: Blank verse
Commas Count
...War mars the face of man. Though this be known to all men we realists connive. Thrice-prancing priests in March have made red their faces, have conspired anew to despoil summer's increase, ov......

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Categories: despoil, war,
Form: Free verse
How To Kill a Ghost
...I try to be good I work and play  to cause disarray I fume and let it all mushroom I engage in wanton acts of guile I act not as the contrary child  I do it all but not for a smile  To kill a ......

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Categories: despoil, hilarious,
Form: Verse

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