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Devours Poems - Poems about Devours


Premium Member Baby Bunny Devours Books
Baby bunny devoured books. He read them in closets, on boats, and in nooks. Biographies were the best, autos even better. In the winter he read them wearing a sweater. Aren't books boring? Asked one who knew little. Pirate Jack kept on reading, his mouth full of spittle. He was slashing the enemy up in pieces fine and small. He had no...

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Categories: devours, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonflower Devours
Darkness blooming graceful moon vine, boastful in striking radiance as darkness stalks daylight reclines, Midnight banquet petals devour, stars reflect commitment, entwined sustainable in twilight hours, Whispers shared lost in bleak skies ink, lantern flowers guide soul drifters reserved charm ~ timid sunrise winks...

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Categories: devours, dark, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death Devours Lovely Things
DEATH DEVOURS LOVELY THINGS The fallow ground was thirsty for her — “I’m in trouble” stung like a nightingale’s knife. The moon and stars in vertiginous blur stilled her mothering heart — her life. Music of the twilight and cherry bobs in the twins’ manhattans. Celebratory smiles and cheers ferment to grieving sobs — a blossoming bosom of lamentations and trials. O melancholy separation...

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Categories: devours, death,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight Devours
Darkness, tearing into the light, talons that blind Redemption, covered in blight, the omen reminds Chasing the last ray, horizon diminished and gone Words screaming goodbye, as twilight devours your song (Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Categories: devours, night,
Form: Rhyme
Saturn Devours His Son
In the void lurks a titan. The father of the gods themselves. Though by now he wishes that he was not. But the selfish titan lord Kronos, The father of the Olympians named Saturn, Must want to reclaim the life that he poured into his children. As he stands there, Crouched in the darkness, The only thing that one can see Is that among...

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Categories: devours, art, evil, father, father
Form: Ekphrasis



Love Devours Me
Love devours me. My wife knows. 'He suffers beautifully' she says This is maybe why she stays....

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Categories: devours, depression, love,
Form: Free verse
Death Devours All Lovely Things
Step back today and gave upon this world of beauty. Gave upon its wonders and mysteries. Take a step back today and look at all the lovely things in which this world contains. But look while you can because it will all soon perish and expire. "Death Devours ALL Lovely Things." A flower may stand tall, give us greaty delight. But when this flower of...

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Categories: devours, naturebeautiful, world, beauty, flower,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things