Encasement Poems

War

...Before the guns and bombs were made
the clubs and fists were swung
names for numbers now we trade
the senseless turned all numb

crumbled blocks broken down
create, destroy, rebuild
a three ri...
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Categories: encasement, conflict, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme

Anger in All

...By: Katie Davis Written on 6/29/22 Revised on 10/28/24
Anger, burning hot enough to melt a calm mind.
Anger, boiling, steaming like a volcano shaking the earth ready to erupt the pain out of a blis...
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Categories: encasement, anger, emotions, endurance, poems,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAbsent All About Autos Amid Awry Auto

...As it is the way with me, I have the car prepped by individuals whose love of the industry has acquired a rather peculiar name, "Grease Monkey." 

I have no understanding of vehicles or the...
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Categories: encasement, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTHEIR NOT DEAD ENTERED IN OUR FATHER'S EMBRACEMENT-

...Fleshly vessel, lay incasket
Upon their death, though
Instantly, they are with the Lord they“soar”
Our God’s embracement ;
Their newencasement ;
Renewed...
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Categories: encasement, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, blessing,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberFRUITS MATTERS -

...Oranges encased in Orange
Grape clusters gather together
Minions purple encasement raisins
 dancing in the sunlight dried out
 from lack of rain 
Red apples sweating crying tears in ...
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Categories: encasement, analogy, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPalatable Conversations at Night

...We, 
with the geometry and evening 
balance of our midcentury hands—gently 
lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a 
nightly ritual, gravity-driven, habit built over time, the g...
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Categories: encasement, extended metaphor,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberOrange Devil Seeks Out Clown

...orange devil went down to reserve a clown
he promptly found confusion in stereo sound
first time in the dreaded basement of hell fire’s encasement
clown in entertaining mode flashed devil a warnin...
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Categories: encasement, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Door

...Poetry words a moment
Contemplation unwords everything.

Contemplation seeks the light
   seeping under the crack of door,
Where the door is our real
and light is the...
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Categories: encasement, faith, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier

...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier

Tell tale indelible woe y'all
privy to learn yours truly harbors
traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades si...
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Categories: encasement, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Neighborhood

...At around a quarter passed 6AM from the 2nd floor window,
I inhaled a most lovely view. So, I had to exhale and share with you.
My eyes beheld the canopy of blue so clear, pristine, and free of all...
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Categories: encasement, blue, green,
Form: Verse

The First Anniversary Since Being Pelted

...The first anniversary since being pelted...

with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021
sitting in the exact same chair
yours truly sat three hundred 
and sixty five days ago. 

Watermelons, grapef...
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Categories: encasement, abuse, adventure, anger, april,
Form: Free verse

Flicker

...I cut open my chest and laid it bare
for all to see.
A blanket of darkness 
resting within
caught most of the attention 
followed by a lump of acidic regret 
underneath it.
Then a smell of sub...
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Categories: encasement, emotions, endurance, fire, hope,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Last Thoughts

...my moment of peace, completely at ease,
the maths is done, my journey has begun,
the value of money, was there any?
house I paid for, and my luxury car,
results of my toils like serpentine coils,...
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Categories: encasement, blessing, death,
Form: Rhyme

Greatness

...I have been pondering for quite some time, 
Is there a permanence to the meaning of the word ‘greatness’?
Whatever does it mean ‘to be great’ or ‘to feel great’?

You see, from ever since, I’ve a...
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Categories: encasement, appreciation, celebration, confidence, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Pelted With Pistachio Shells April 3rd 2021

...Pelted with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021

Watermelons, grapefruits, oranges...
lobbed at yours truly ruled out,
hence the missus dreamt up bright idea
to enfilade me courtesy pistachio shell...
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Categories: encasement, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Free verse

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