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Dust Covered Poems - Poems about Dust Covered

Fated Love

...They grew up together 
But they never spoke
And never seen each other
Fate had her plans, though
Setting them up to meet
When they did it, it was in the library
Between the dust-covered shelves...
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Categories: dust covered, books, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Last Station of Waiting

...Long ago, Mithila was left at this forsaken station,
As the train slipped away on the wrong track, 
cutting all horizons.
There was no return
Mithila knew it, even then.
This waiting was only a ...
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Categories: dust covered, break up, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberhiku 46

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orange sky sunset

leaning on a fence post

a dust covered cowboy

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Categories: dust covered, nature, sunset,
Form: Haiku

Water, 30 random word prompt

...The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumble...
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Categories: dust covered, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sad Story of Annie

...The old cottage was in a dilapidated state. Fifteen years had passed
Since my sister died. The only thing of interest was a dusty old box.
I lifted the lid: a broken flute, a sort of diary
And a j...
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Categories: dust covered, abuse, memory, violence,
Form: Free verse



Hollow

...Those church doors, once open wide,
are closed. Hinges rusted and ancient
thorn bushes, once trimmed,
now block entry.

Inside, the pews are barren.
The pulpit, a dust-covered monument
to an a...
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Categories: dust covered, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCovering Rose

...Painted daisies, baby's breath beside roses
Chrysanthemums, carnations beside roses
Red roses beside pink roses

Still, Rose is gone; Petals fresh, ... dried, and crushed.
Dawn and dusk, and mel...
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Categories: dust covered, death, farewell, flower, funeral,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberat a loss for words

...At a loss for words
Well not exactly
Words are plentiful
Thoughts a lesser commodity
Dust covered, wall flowers
Resigned to their fate

Thoughtless
Well not exactly
Thoughts think
About wha...
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Categories: dust covered, imagination, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFading photographs

...dust covered photos 
forgotten over the years 
just recently found 

old smiles brought to life 
memories that make me laugh 
emotions run wild 

the more I dust them 
the more faded they be...
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Categories: dust covered, emotions, family,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberCosmic dust of color, spread across the marble table

...Cosmic dust of color, spread across the marble table,
where you, with sacred grace, draw esoteric circles,
watching me as I prepare the canvas for painting,
laughing softly, slipping your powdered...
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Categories: dust covered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Wandering of a Dead Man

...The Wandering of a Dead Man
I move slowly, like a lost soul, a walking dead,
My vision, foreign, no longer belongs to me,
It is merely that of a human animal, an unwitting heir
Of Greek culture, ...
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Categories: dust covered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Wedding

...To elope is that others are doubters
they wish to devalue the way you feel
saying your emotions are
 fadly expressions
saying what you feel isn't real
To agree and say to your lover
there's a p...
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Categories: dust covered, love,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberMaking of Mankind

...What is a man but his last breath 
All that he is he thrives to be 
A single soul like a lone wolf 
Everything we are we choose to be 
A life of obstacles we still persuade 
That in a breath lif...
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Categories: dust covered, character, creation, death, image,
Form: Narrative

dust covered journeys

...I shift my mind
through the wild trajectories
of life
I often feel I have turned the corner
refusing to the titterings of despair
I cannot hold back the spring
the snowman is no more
I must we...
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Categories: dust covered, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMake My Lonley Desert Bloom Again

...A rewrite.

It's been a long cold dark lonely winter
Since you went away
I live in limbo
And torture myself every single day
The sun used to shine my way
But now turns the other way
A shadow ...
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Categories: dust covered, absence, abuse, love,
Form: Free verse

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