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Devastatingly Poems - Poems about Devastatingly

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: devastatingly, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwatch out for the corals

...If you get too far down in the sea you will miss
the beautiful colors that swim by like this.
There is a school of flame angel fish, orange and bright.
If you get too far down, you will not see th...
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Categories: devastatingly, ocean,
Form: Rhyme



Heroin

...Needle in his veins is deep into his skin, while blood's drowning in heroin
Lifeless eyes blink, but they don't see anything wrong with all of that is going on, even though they know what exactly is...
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Categories: devastatingly, abuse, addiction, betrayal, bird,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPersnickety

...Picky just like an old school pin up,
easily a trendsetter with scope.
Registered at first glance a star.
Strutting she knows what  sells,
notorious for that catchy slogan
‘I won’t ever provide ...
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Categories: devastatingly, emotions, fashion, feelings,
Form: Acrostic

Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

min(no) newt effect on me.

As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish 
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.

With twenty ...
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Categories: devastatingly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberStrange Driver

...A strange man drives our country lane.
Can it be that he's insane?
Sick in temperament and brain?
I saw him before, and now again.
Is something about to go down?

He's driving, but what's drivi...
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Categories: devastatingly, extended metaphor, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Saint Patrick's Day 2020

...I order a Guinness and a shot of Pappy Van Winkle.
My green paper Leprechaun hat is crushed
and lopsided on my head.

That shot of bourbon cost me more
then I used to earn for a day's work.

“...
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Categories: devastatingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a L...
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Categories: devastatingly, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Silence reigns supreme in my reich

...Silence reigns supreme in my reich

No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now in...
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Categories: devastatingly, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incr...
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Categories: devastatingly, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

...Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and ...
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Categories: devastatingly, adventure, age, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme

February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch

...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
...
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Categories: devastatingly, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Rise

...A dark secret I feel tempted to unfold
and the legacy of truth I'm bound to uphold
Ladies and gentlemen, let us view through this wicked universal kaleidoscope
and uncover the secrets of leadershi...
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Categories: devastatingly, africa, change, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Baby Shoes Unused

...His tiny baby shoes, as yet unused, sitting solemnly upon the bed,
Petite little pair that he never donned, the sum of a mother’s dread.
A sweet blessing from God, a bundle of love, and hopeful dre...
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Categories: devastatingly, angel, baby, clothes, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChapter 119 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY: Damali Desharah DJ-- Desharah's and Sedanah's New Digs

...Desharah  woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah 
To come out of her dreams. 
"WAKE UP SEDA."  They roomed
Together. That's what her mother 
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Categories: devastatingly, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form: Alliteration

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