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Doled Out Poems - Poems about Doled Out

Holding On
...I have a wife, a son and two granddaughters, I have nightmares. A 'having' cannot be held onto, a Keep, a Fast, a Hold, all are synonyms for a fortress.... my aspirations crumble like ancient wa......

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Categories: doled out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child
...Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child... courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight while he took tea and crumpets within mistress......

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Categories: doled out, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Tipping Balance
...“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”-Yogi Berra ************************************************************** A Tipping Balance ......

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Categories: doled out, depression, faith, hope, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
An Altruist Unsung
... She lived beside the old temple that has stood For years on the rocky bank of the silent river Flowing all through the lining greenery cover , The woods and the arable land rich and goo......

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Categories: doled out, life,
Form: Narrative
They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands Worth north of a trillion dollars, (plus or minus a billion dollars here and there), the unnamed obscenely rich, (which top 15 billionaires projected to......

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Categories: doled out, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse



SOMBRE SOLILOQUY
...The journey lasted for not more than forty glorious and blessed years Before your smiles gradually faded as you journeyed to a land far away, The hearse swallowed you into its belly, while hearken......

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Categories: doled out, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Too Close to the Edge
...Memories of a bleak childhood haunted him ever and anon. Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him. Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, his mind still goes insane. ......

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Categories: doled out, angst, death, depression,
Form: Haibun
Lovely enchantress of cyberspace
...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace Betwixt and between us lies an immense untraversable realm of never knowable forbidding possibilities quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic..., where ta......

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Categories: doled out, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Against the backdrop of a leaden sky, where dreams lie shattered
...Against the backdrop of a leaden sky, where dreams lie shattered, Beneath the heavy burden of pain, with echoes in sacred silences, I lay down verses at dusk, where words are lost to the wind, A s......

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Categories: doled out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win
...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win... for the trumpeting don spells loss for democracy after inauguration day witnesses his swearing-in nepotism will run rampant lawlessness the name of......

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Categories: doled out, america, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Rhyme
Bittersweet pyrrhic victory
...Bittersweet pyrrhic victory... if a 2024 November presidential Biden win pandemonium likely to occur, subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval might set United States in a tailspin. Thou......

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Categories: doled out, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse
A Drinking Man
...Each night she left him bleary - his mind foaming in a glass of Guiness. Disappointments wore her life thin, nuptials picked to a fugue and dinge, by his thick-tongued spiel. “I can change ......

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Categories: doled out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent
...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent... therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why? Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, and mortally wounde......

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Categories: doled out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......

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Categories: doled out, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Address Unknown
...Still searching for my permanent address, seeking where I really live, fit in. Suspended between life’s already-happened and soon-to-be-memories moments. Longing for a white-picket-fenced home, ......

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Categories: doled out, change, conflict, longing, mental
Form: Free verse

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