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Detract Poems - Poems about Detract

Premium Member thinking about - The Kick Inside
... Reciprocity of entrancement, poised - duality, despite the noise Eye to eye, as arrow slains, without an ounce of physical pain Carnal stare ~ makes time stop, quivering lik......

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Categories: detract, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Love Conquers All
...Love don't expire No date, no age No race, nothing. Love knows no bounds No religion No status. Love never done If wrong, accept But never lost. Love hope success It persevere Never ......

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Categories: detract, hope, love, success,
Form: Than-Bauk



Never been good at hiding
...I have never been good at hiding At least not from those who truly pay attention I’ve never been good at hiding so instead, I became great at deflecting I slip in words to distract and detract f......

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Categories: detract, angst, anxiety, depression, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member J M W Turner - Snow Storm 1842
...strapped to the mast, I recite it so to show what I saw, I had to know no dramatisation of emotion took place I was there, my friend in that ......

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Categories: detract, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member What's the Matter
...Have you heard all the science chatter That the future is not made of matter I don’t mean to detract But as a matter of fact That all they found is ‘doesn’t matter’ It’s a matter of life and d......

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Categories: detract, science, word play,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Broken
...Drawn to a scent that has appealed, innocent heart lowers its shield but betrayal sees trust shaken. How may our broken heart be healed? When we feel as such, forsaken, it’s time for us to awa......

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Categories: detract, betrayal, forgiveness, heart, hurt,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Edges of Rhyme
...The Edges of Rhyme I wrote the playbook, watching what they took While the earth shook I could not look In the direction of the Big Book Like a fish caught on a nasty hook Ruminating , ......

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Categories: detract, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Conditions of Living
...The Conditions of Living Stark organisations of my observations Respond to beauty with pure elation Instead of chronic devastation Process the abject consternation From contrived over-satur......

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Categories: detract, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rover
...The funeral was well attended Nobody came It was sad in a way Clashed with the dog passing away There was a friend with a leg When I say a leg I actually mean two Though he had t......

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Categories: detract, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tidy
...Located in the perfect place Filed in transparent drawer Unruly impediments erased Facets interact free of flaw Seamless system clockwork Methods remain m......

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Categories: detract, anxiety, cute, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Born Free
...truth’s we are alive within body hive oh joy heart gives a high five into desires dive decoy bliss in the archive how will we revive enjoy in a long convoy thought spirals annoy detrac......

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Categories: detract, freedom, joy,
Form: Rhyme
A Business Man Talks
...Please" A Big No!"to contract That would Shaolin kicks attract, From a modest aim detract; Flow of air slow down in tract. "No"to cheques you never checked; Much like grains hens never pecked......

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Categories: detract, business, care, cry, money,
Form: Rhyme
Old Pulp
...It comes wrapped up in clear mylar, like the ones comic people use, insides faded, creased and yellow, big red letters boast of the west, small rips and tears from ancient hands, and the collect......

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Categories: detract, adventure, age, appreciation, history,
Form: Blank verse
Sharp Street Shrine, March 2014
...It's cold and it's windy But still that crowd meets To stand with respect At the top of Sharp Street. The Bearers stand at attention As though shrunken by age Since those seventy years When t......

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Categories: detract, anniversary, community, dedication, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desire and Aversion
...Like two-sides of the same-coin are desire and aversion, In daily psychic chores they are whole heart-mind immersion; Desire is cause of all sufferings - Gautam Buddha claimed, Aversion involves ......

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Categories: detract, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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