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Distracts Poems - Poems about Distracts

Dispensations of Grace
...Hard considerations for the future of mankind The bard sings commiserations as he looks for what he cannot find A shard of intimidations hurled toward the innocent and kind A card that invokes i......

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Categories: distracts, life,
Form: Rhyme
The lies they killed us with
...They starved our bodies of love Then complain how our bones shake in fear They strip us of our dignity Then glare at us when we jave nothing to wear They take our souls Then question when the......

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Categories: distracts, discrimination, history, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future
..."It wasn't always like this, of course. Money didn't always exist. Previously, people labored to eat. However, they WORKED for joy." The concept of happiness was absent. When money was introdu......

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Categories: distracts, inspirational, joy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times
...In a world once illuminated by the gold of bygone times, A dark veil is now woven, a prison for lost souls, Where critical spirit and free thought are but whispered memories, Control of education ......

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Categories: distracts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Memory
...I look into a mirror and see that little boy in his warm clothes He looks out at the road in front of him A silence rings in his ear Tears well in his eyes His dad pulls over, empathy sparse in......

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Categories: distracts, abuse, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse



Entwined
...I watch the dawn’s first light softly caress your sleeping form. My heart is overcome with feelings, oft-forgotten I confess, of how entwined our lives and love’s become. Time, like a river, we......

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Categories: distracts, love, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
2017
...I used to drive around town for fun. But this town is now overgrown. With tall buildings that reach too high. As I try to look up. The sun turns toward me and distracts me. I used to go t......

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Categories: distracts, age, angst,
Form: Free verse
Weather Girl
...Roof shingles are tossed like confetti in a Banshee wind. She says it's going to be a bad weather day, the green screen behind her wobbles as a gust of torrential hailstones rocks the studio, ......

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Categories: distracts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar
... Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic microwave background radiation— CMB for short. She's everywhere: fluorescent birdsong of modern offices, hum of corner store ice cream cases. Have ......

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Categories: distracts, age, allusion, culture,
Form: Free verse
War Dog
...I know the sounds of war: They have become so familiar to my ears That they now sound like home. I serve alongside the soldiers— I have a job to do; I live to please. For the people who love an......

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Categories: distracts, animal, death, dog, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buddha
... … I like him not the fat bellied one as there is too much hunger on the planet an overweight pouch does not seem right resembles too much opulent self-gratification and distracts from praye......

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Categories: distracts, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joy and Happiness
...We plan and design our cities, communities, families, and personal lives, According to our beliefs about the purpose of life, Our happiness is rooted in money and all that money buys, The way we sp......

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Categories: distracts, happiness, joy, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Necromancer’s Tears
...He weeps, assigned to mourn for others who Had none to mourn them, none to say goodbye, Those whose harm medicine can’t undo, Whose bodies he takes apart each passing night. He scrubs, a cleans......

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Categories: distracts, health,
Form: Rhyme
Gus, Trainer, of Puppets Mall Exodus II
... Their eyes widened, and the group leaned in with curiosity. “What’s in it for us?” one of them asked, lowering his phone and adopting a tone that suggested a wild adventure was imminent, perhaps ev......

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Categories: distracts, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Other
Intertwined Souls In Passionate Urge
...Ah! All fades away, nothing remains... but carved names into cold stones! The scent of evening's kisses, the touch of trembling hands also drift away into pretty sunsets! Intertwined soul......

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Categories: distracts, desire, emotions, moon, night,
Form: Lyric

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