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Devolves Poems - Poems about Devolves

Premium MemberDark Days Are Coming

...Dark Days Are Coming

Dark days are coming
Loping over the far horizon
Distant still, a little,
Yet they approach, all the same.

The familiar disappears
Note by note
As the past piles up be...
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Categories: devolves, angst, anxiety, grief, journey,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBreathless in the void

...“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”

Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that...
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Categories: devolves, god, light, self, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat



Mindscapes

...
A deep pit with a crumbling edge.
Far below,
is a muddy pool swarming with crocodilians.
There is someone with me, a boy.
I shouldn't have taken the child here.

I am slipping, taking...
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Categories: devolves, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberbebop pop sprout

...buds beckon to pop
leaves unfurl reveal green scroll
spring devolves uncurls...
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Categories: devolves, spring,
Form: Haiku

Pablo Neruda in English Translations including 'Religion in the East'

...These are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda. 

Religión en el Este (“Religion in the East”)
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch

for Tom Merrill

I realized in...
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Categories: devolves, death, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse



Too Much Tumultuous

...I can't quite remember how I got here
It apprehends my vision, apprehends my senses
my hiding places are very well hidden
and there's no way to stay
this maddening day from my vision.

All the ...
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Categories: devolves, loneliness, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEquality For All

..."We appreciate the popular democratic intention,"
began the Drag Queen Ball proclamation,
'Equity for All'

We would even more appreciate
a more specific lack of pretention:
'Equity for All Vic...
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Categories: devolves, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTheory of Devolution

...Prayer devolves to Meditation
    Meditation toward Prayer  

  As long as the Master's listening
    As long as you know that He's there...
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Categories: devolves, god, meaningful, prayer, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZombie

...
Little birdy said “a lot of coma coming soon”
When the earth chills down with a blood red moon
Silent shrieks abound as the brain dissolves 
Big mistake on the uptake man devolves
"W...
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Categories: devolves, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

All the Splendor

...The rose
natures
fairest scent
covering
the valley
pales
compared to the
smell of your
perfume
on a letter.

If Aphrodite
Goddess
of beauty
of love
swift she
devolves into
a wretched...
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Categories: devolves, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRule of Threes

...Health of a nation
See the old and young station
Your indication

Breeze moves the tree leaves
But turned to gusts the tree heaves
The wise man perceives

Things are a blessing
Until fury op...
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Categories: devolves, muse,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Hinterland

...Democracy devolves into tyranny, Plato cautioned.
Flooded by the frigid torrent of factionalism,
will we certify his prediction?

Blinded by the prevarication of public discourse.
Numbed by the ...
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Categories: devolves, allusion, dream, hate, hope,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberDada

...He came beating a path
That devolves everything 
That is norm

Strangely kitted 
Strangling patterns 
Dawning and hatching 
Stirring the hope
Of the unmasked kind

Erasing all dreads
Settl...
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Categories: devolves, inspiration,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberToxic 2018

...I've noticed a new favorite word
in 2018
was "toxic."

And, in on-line discussions,
a newly invested discernment
of what it might fascist imply
to lead each white privileged day
with patriarc...
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Categories: devolves, anti bullying, fear, hate,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberVillanelle: Don'T Some Live Life the Way He Or She Wants It

...Villanelle : Don't some live Life the way he or she wants it

Don't some live Life the way he or she wants it
Look around and see who lives resounding lives
If I were Life's Playwright won't I...
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Categories: devolves, conflict, judgement, life, philosophy,
Form: Villanelle

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