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Dust Poems - Poems about Dust

Dust in the Water
we stood at the edge of the silence, where the river forgets every name. words fell like stones into distance, rippling out but never the same. you said some things just slip away— like time, like faith, like yesterday. we were dust in the water, shifting with the tide, held by a moment that wouldn’t survive. you can’t catch the current, you can’t stop the rain— we...

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Categories: dust, metaphor, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In the silence between battles, where echoes fade into the dust of forgetting
In the silence between battles, where echoes fade into the dust of forgetting, War weaves its tale, a silent dialogue between shadows and flames, What are your plans, oh war, what surprises do you prepare for us in the shadows, Where do you see yourself in a month, in five years, when silence will fall? Let's talk about your...

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Categories: dust, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Questions That Taste Like Chalk
Childhood? You want to know about childhood? Eleven. Sleeve rolled high in Tehran's burning heat. Revolutionary Guard's fist finds my face— metal barrel pressed cold against my cheek, the sharp click of the hammer drawn back, that sound that steals sleep for years. --- Professional chess player, you ask? Sixteen. Recess bells ringing through cracked school tiles. We sketch our battlefield in white chalk...

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Categories: dust, political,
Form: Free verse
Dust Trees of Manila
They planted trees but forgot their water. Each leaf a wrinkled newspaper clipping from a world I never subscribed to. Noise here is curated. A choir of car horns, a sermon of drills but I hear the silence between footsteps and the echo of one slippered child crossing the pedestrian overpass with rice in a plastic bag. My eyes collect forgotten wrappers, graffiti prayers, the melancholy of sky cut by...

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Categories: dust, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Dust
l came from a desert you've never heard of l am the source of the potters clay in the storm of the desert l wander in a desert that has no home then l rest upon the surface of the water and the sounds that leaks through your windows l can deflect back into space and then she calls your name across...

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Categories: dust, africa, environment, wind,
Form: Free verse



Still the Dust Sings
after ‘The waste Land’, by T.S. Eliot I met a woman on a glitching screen, her face a whisk of pixels and prayer. She spoke of shattered systems and survived code, “The cloud remembers everything,” she said, "but forgets what matters.” A rat hurried through my feed at dawn, past memes and headlines, each a kind...

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Categories: dust, april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dreams to Dust
A pony her dream only orthodontics violin lessons yearly safaris ...

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Categories: dust, betrayal, dream, horse,
Form: Free verse
Iran and Israel: Mirrors in the Dust
In courts of shadow, thrones are made, Not by virtue—but by blade. From Persia’s gate to Zion’s hill, It’s not peace, but will, that breaks the still. Two lions stare with burning eyes, Clad in scripture, veiled in lies. Each speaks of God, yet plays the game— Where oil is blood and land is fame. Iran, the scholar cloaked in flame, Dreams of empires,...

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Categories: dust, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Dust of Giants
E-ven R-iver I-s C-ascading A-nd M-ountains A-re E-roding, M-en A-re N-ot I-mmortal C-reatures, A-s N-othing I-s ©bfa052525 Monocrostic (Birthday of Ericamae G. Manicani) ...

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Categories: dust, birthday,
Form: Other
Dust Motes and Forgotten Cries
The clock ticks, a hollow sound, time that refuses to heal. Dust motes dance in the slanted light, each a tiny, forgotten sorrow. The news whispers of old wounds, reopened, a symphony of forgotten cries. Children play, their laughter a fragile shield against the encroaching silence. "When yesterdays become devoid of compassion", the present crumbles, a house of cards. The weight of what was, and...

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Categories: dust, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Willie Wagtail and the Dust Devil
Wee Willie Wagtail, sleek and spry, Flew up to catch a bug on fly, When along came a wily willy-willy Swirling winds aloft willy and nilly Loop-de-looping poor Willie, up into sky!...

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Categories: dust, bird, song, wind,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I no longer want to be a child, for those years carry a thick layer of forgotten dust
I no longer want to be a child, for those years carry a thick layer of forgotten dust, where every corner hides a room where I learned to forget how to breathe, and memories are like shadows dancing silently on the walls of time. Returning would mean shattering myself on the same silent and cold corners, on the same...

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Categories: dust, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Got my hide
Read this, you must Excuse my dust, See ya on flip side, Reaper's got my hide!...

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Categories: dust, angst, character, eulogy, fate,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Gathering Dust
Dust drops like silent thoughts, neglected over the piano lid, shut quiet and still. Some dust we keep as mementos in a chaotic pile of keepsakes. Some we wipe away on a rainy day, with windows wide open to keep it from our nostrils. We wipe away the fingerprints left by the guilty one, the cleaner upper-er, to leave no trace for retribution. Neglect,...

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Categories: dust, memory,
Form: Free verse
Dust
I Know, Im a grain of sand Fixated on you. We are dust ,in this master plan . Ill just, blow away. To a never happy ending If you dont stay. Let's make this promise. I Don't wanta stop, what we do . I'm fixated on you. Everything you do , is sweet! While you think, you tap , your lip...

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Categories: dust, celebration, children, creation, death,
Form: Free verse

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