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Empty Gesture
Empty Gesture Poems - Poems about Empty Gesture
FORGIVING
...FORGIVING Forgiveness – well, just let it lay inside Not to see any daylight, maybe never No moment of weakness or surrender If a request received, return to sender It’s not about strength or ......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
empty gesture,
forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
The Suitor
...So oft' he used to pass my way, and merrily nod and pass the time of day with a polite lift of his tall bola-hat then he'd wander off again His stature was somewhat portly yet his nature char......
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©
Julie Achilles
Categories:
empty gesture,
imagery, love, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Leilani
...lush blue syringes filled with caked on pus she is not a mannequin nor a living doll nor dead space ajar. She likes to stare at the backs of her hands as if at any moment they would mutate in......
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©
Chantelle Easterling
Categories:
empty gesture,
addiction, blue,
Form:
Free verse
Chaos Mind
...Centuries of lies, a hollow myth Perpetuated by charlatans with great ceremony The Greatest Show, the living bread The crowd sustained and animated by necromancy The will is fused, the body disme......
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©
Alan Schiff
Categories:
empty gesture,
corruption, dark, death, evil,
Form:
Free verse
The Catch-Up
...get this--- you put the person behind you… you did your best to burn them, to amicably make closure with them, to see their face, however you now imagine it, in the rearview mirror & then, when you l......
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©
Andrew Delapruch
Categories:
empty gesture,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Table For Three
...Smeared rouge broken nail torn slip I'd waited for you again after the dance a single light flickers a final sign to fix my lipstick our song played on the flashing seaburg just around two q......
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©
Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
empty gesture,
art,
Form:
Ballad
Merlin Unbound
...I am the root. I am the green fuse. I am the stem, the bud, the dry twig, and the stealthy footstep that snaps it in the night. I am the rising hair on the back of your neck. I am Merlin, the......
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©
Richard Clairmont
Categories:
empty gesture,
introspection, song-green,
Form:
Lay