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Eking Poems - Poems about Eking

Premium Member The Eke Eek
...Struggling for so long Eking it look so easy They don’t believe me......

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Categories: eking, mental health,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Persistence of Memory
...Inspired by the painting by Salvador Dali: 'The Persistence of Memory' The endless eking out of time Drains me of my verve Trying to recall what once was mine Is any sense of self conserved? ......

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Categories: eking, art, mental illness,
Form: Ekphrasis



He Stands In the Street
...With traffic flowing he stands in the street Arms stretched, hands up, commanding a halt Obedience and fate will now compete His adrenaline pumping like a drumbeat His eyes shut tightly sting w......

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Categories: eking, humanity,
Form: Villanelle
Repayment
...The devil wants a payment, and the angels need a check. And the world keeps saying their ain’t no cash to get So, you reach for the savings that your people won't release Then you look to the he......

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Categories: eking, business, community, environment, judgement,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Great Escape
...Gravitational pull like quicksand, her ebony eyes Ripping into his outer space. He tugs at his collar, Eking out the empty space of honeysuckle perfume. Avant-garde arrest of his indeterminate hea......

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Categories: eking, love,
Form: Acrostic



Seeing Off My Guests
...Fast wind sees off a dying year The sense of fall strong Hurriedly I see off my guests to my hometown The Double Ninth Day is near I wish my friends to cheer Eking out a living as alien here ......

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Categories: eking, friendship,
Form: Light Verse
Guilded Cage
...My big friend has locked me Inside of his house I do not believe I will ever get out I don’t really mind It’s comfy and warm And except for that dog I never face harm In the earliest day......

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Categories: eking, animal, cat, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Himalayas
...Himalayas Eons ago in the planet’s evolution, During tectonic plate movement: 1 The Indian Island Ma moved northward Crashing into the Eurasian continent, To form the Himalayan m......

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Categories: eking, culture, education, environment, mountains,
Form: Verse
Burn After Reading
... Proceed no further, please ... this Rorschach ink will give you nightmares Horrifying images everyday in the world you dare don’t see, terrible things that will make you so soul scared......

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Categories: eking, dark, humanity, society, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
...Chapter 13d Yet at length he reawakened As if in another lifetime Han discerned a sound and movement Stiffly rose to look about him And he saw his precious Matto Crouching near him in th......

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Categories: eking, adventure, africa, animal, children,
Form: Narrative
Oppression
...Mayhem, pandemonium total chaos, bedlam, devastation. A soft, soothing breeze turns into a whirlwind, a hurricane causing havoc, death, destruction and untold misery… Is it the fault of the......

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Categories: eking, endurance, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November's Saint
...November’s Saint I watch Truman’s Capote's tale in November the south, trapped in frost bare, naked to the eye a penury of snow like poor folk clothes hardly enough to cover the jagged ed......

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Categories: eking, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mosaic
...The mosaic A myriad of faces, Most, long and forlorn, Each in a constant flux, Eking out a living Worry, deeply etched, Like parallel ridges, On an otherwise barren waste The many f......

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Categories: eking, art, depression, future, hope,
Form: Free verse
Amidst the Mist
...Amidst the mist, perchance! The besieged me, accentuates.. gamboling at that ephemeral glance, The demure Soul for a moment, eluates. Defying every dulcet wrath, with my erstwhile prudent........

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Categories: eking, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Rootlessness
...From Mastadonian timelessness Thru Neolithic mankindliness Past icy agey instances Cave-ember dream sequences Animal carcass sustenances Tribal ritual religiousness Guttural language utteranc......

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Categories: eking, society,
Form: Rhyme

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