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Enclaves Poems - Poems about Enclaves

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: enclaves, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

Rosemary's Wedding

...This Sunday,
Before noon,
In my community church,
Wedding bells ring?

Rosemary,
Daughter of our land,
Weds!

Grand invitations
With ancestral R.S.V.P.
To be spoken with flutes,
Dressed i...
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Categories: enclaves, social, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberStamp Collector

...In a world of paper, colors bright and bold, 
Lives a stamp collector, with stories to be told. 
With albums of wonder, and pages of dreams, 
Each stamp a journey, or so it seems. 
 
But shadows...
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Categories: enclaves, world,
Form: Rhyme

Moving Out

...I was born in a muddy time
created to be a field of broken bricks.

Years wove their weeds.
There was hope,
enclaves of suburban heavens
old men in grim pubs spoke of.

You might think
that ...
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Categories: enclaves, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPebbled Stream

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  Rocks and streams from pebbled ruins,
  Makes my feet moan and groan.
  Water rushing,
  Never flushing the dirt from years gone past!
  Hurts my toes as I meander by.
  A journey that con...
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Categories: enclaves, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWhen Will the World Open Its Eyes

...Three 'Palestinians' murder innocents
     three Jewish women in cold blood
  Then dance on rooftops and in the street
     where fellow bullies and cowards nightly meet

  When murdered themsel...
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Categories: enclaves, innocence, jewish, murder, violence,
Form: Narrative

Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught

...PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From swea...
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Categories: enclaves, anxiety, death, death of
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAdieu

...Howl fir tree, the cedar is fallen 

From this narrow lane of time,

from this uncertain strait and burdens

from these enclaves of wearying vanity fair,

from this time bound journeying amon...
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Categories: enclaves, death, faith, family, grief,
Form: Elegy

Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945

...Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleash...
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Categories: enclaves, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse

Replete With Colonial Army Spirits

...Though I posted the following poem 
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense 
of glee donned my being 
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.

Not far from here – Perkiomen V...
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Categories: enclaves, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen I Was Thirtysomething 1990s

...I saw a colonel in shadows arms dealing
I saw a chain of command red faced and reeling

I saw a disaster, the flight of the damned
I saw the wreckage strewn where it had slammed

I saw a gu...
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Categories: enclaves, history, world,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Art of Morning

...Upon rising, awakened by 
ripening scent teasing my nose, 
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes new life
and hope into my journey, so b...
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Categories: enclaves, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStars and Moon Await

...Floating embers swivel golden flames go up 
towards marked enclaves a midnight sky 
skywards and onwards the stars and moon await...
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Categories: enclaves, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945

...Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945

Once again, I take momentary pause
to contemplate horrific event
regarding unleashing atomic warfare
activating nuclear brinkmanship,
hence...
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Categories: enclaves, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf the Day Dawns, At Last - Yuliya

...If the day dawns at last that your heart bows to service,
acknowledges, longs to ‘pay forward’ past debts, I’ll praise God.
If you live Life of Grace (shown to people around you),
to mentors, your...
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Categories: enclaves, appreciation, blessing, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme

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