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Diminishes Poems - Poems about Diminishes

MASK OF MANY FACES

...Who am I, anyway?

I wear the mask of many faces.
I speak, read, and understand—
sometimes with words,
sometimes telepathy.
My voice changes with my face.

I just need a witness.

Attuned t...
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Categories: diminishes, beauty, children, community, creation,
Form: Free verse

Makeup

...Hello friends, makeup is a skillful art,                                    Do you agree or not, it is real,                                                 You know born babies need no cosmetics,   ...
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Categories: diminishes, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberFulcrum of a Rose

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Souls arrive on earth compelled to survive dramatic impacts.
Each child of spirit will eventually reach for reasons to be here.
Living finds the soul stri...
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Categories: diminishes, blessing, character, color, creation,
Form: Acrostic

Alone

...My sombre shadow trails me,
My own friend i’ve personally handsewn,
It comforts me, 
Somehow I don’t feel alone. 

When the sun diminishes,
The absence of my beloved lingers..
With only the mo...
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Categories: diminishes, angst, depression, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet Me Say My Goodbyes At The End of a Long Summer's Day

...Let Me Say My Goodbyes At the End of a Long Summer's Day

Let me say my Goodbyes 
At the end of a long Summer's day,
When the light lies long and the breeze is soft,
While wheeling birds carry t...
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Categories: diminishes, appreciation, death, encouraging, how
Form: Lyric



Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along

...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...

as his stronghold diminishes.

Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories: diminishes, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Ring Around The Rosie’

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{"-Every second of my life in which I cherish, So that I will never burden myself with the thought of you, I try so hard to cope with the idea of straying yourself away from me, of you not being th...
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Categories: diminishes, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStill Paying

...I seized the moment,
sure I’d repay it in kind.
What’s a hint of regret
for what I thought I needed to burn?

Now the burden grows,
sleepless nights interest is accruing.
The cost never dimini...
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Categories: diminishes, desire, passion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberField of forgiveness

...belied expectations 
caused feeling of hurt
inability to let go
made resentment spurt

the earth rotated
and seasons changed
but the ego-mind
remained deranged

reinforced by thought
suffe...
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Categories: diminishes, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

Autumn Leaves

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Summer falls into Autumn's falling leaves, a color contrast of reds, yellows, browns, oranges, and purples in the breeze

All falling floating down from the trees to replenish the earths soil i...
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Categories: diminishes, autumn, beautiful, color, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOne way streets

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Those one way streets, that lead to dead ends
The giving and sacrifice on a way road
The words of help echo from ears that don't listen
Then a rough road turns in one's own life, nothing is th...
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Categories: diminishes, change, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn a velvet night, under a sky sprinkled with stardust

...On a velvet night, under a sky sprinkled with stardust,
realism, like a broken mirror, fails to reflect the whole truth,
it diminishes reality, thins it out, falsifies it, losing its essence,
it d...
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Categories: diminishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

The sun also rises

...The truth may be a cracked mirror, changing at every angle,
pleasure diminishes with time, yet the sun also rises.

Time spent in self-pity is meaningless, a flight of numbness
disdainful of clin...
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Categories: diminishes, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Ghazal

Premium MemberMoney Does Not Bring

...Money does not bring true happiness,
This does not exist. Money releases and smoothes
The daily burdens and responsibilities;
It is a relief that diminishes the worries.

Being healthy is the ul...
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Categories: diminishes, abuse, addiction, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

What Am I?

...It is a Flame so brilliant I dare not grow close
But still, I fear it may Burn me
So I Smother it. I throw upon it layers of hatred, isolation, vitriolic disgust. I Curse its name to anyone who wil...
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Categories: diminishes, corruption, hate, humanity, riddle,
Form: Free verse

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