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Envying Poems - Poems about Envying

Irrational exuberance at respite from reading

...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...

(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...
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Categories: envying, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Flower

...flowers that have flourished in winter 
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny meadow,
the other still frozen in a fie...
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Categories: envying, deep, flower, lost, love
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberBars

...LC

I drop bars, that break bars, and start fights in dive bars
“Emotio est pons, amor est finis.” 
I am the spark between the medulla oblongata
and the thalamus. 
The protector of vertebrae,
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Categories: envying, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberWhere the Ocean Meets the Mountain

...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer  
   I have ever known how to say  

You are the sea—each wave not an argume...
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Categories: envying, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Lyric

A Sister's Lament

...Is it wrong to feel jealous of my brothers?  
Am I evil for envying their wild freedom,  
For wanting, just once, to go where they go,  
To dance to every beat, lose myself in the night?  

They...
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Categories: envying, africa, anger, emotions, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGifts Speak to God all My Brethren-DO I LOVE-

...Speak tongues of men or angels
Making sense or noise
Gifts speak to God all my brethren
Do I love?
So we do love is patient, love is kind
No envying
No delight in evil rejoice in truth
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Categories: envying, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Foul Bats

...Nosy minds in fall of night 
Like foul bats envying the light 
They're like fool dogs barking till dawn 
Finding some dirt in other's lawn 

They're all like puppets in a play 
They are like so...
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Categories: envying, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberResilient Peak Experiences

...Gayla Speak Experiences
promote healing events
not intended to contribute to trauma
drama narratives.

Stories we tell
and trust
and thrust
and softly smile about
when we dare to leave
our ...
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Categories: envying, culture, health, integrity, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Workers Wage

...He remembers it before it arrives,
To collect a far one hundred miles drives, 
To keep stalling payment his life deprives,
Better he ended up in beehives…

The end of every month full of meaning...
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Categories: envying, business, career, cry, hate,
Form: Rhyme

Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife Trois

...Inevitable death defines afterlife - trois

So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to 
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized 
chapped sticky man
spinning t...
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Categories: envying, absence, allah, analogy, angel,
Form: Rhyme

Claustrophobia

...The walls are closing in.
No matter what I say, I never win.
My life’s crumbling in my hands
Like it’s a stray rock, and I can’t see where it lands.

Everything’s falling apart before my eyes,
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Categories: envying, 8th grade, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWinter

...Winter


Black cloud enshroud blue horizon while migrating birds tweet their last goodbye

Arctic winds weigh down bare naked branches watching blinding storms streak by

Above forsaken lodge ...
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Categories: envying, courage, life, snow,
Form: Rhyme

Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness

...Groundswell Of Emotional Blessedness

Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:

thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Faceboo...
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Categories: envying, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn a Powerful Way

...The Most High way, Abba Father,
your hands are full, always a-bless,
never ending- your palms of grace.
You are love…ing in a pow-er-ful way!

Hallelujahs forever born.
The light of...
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Categories: envying, christian, fruit,
Form: Lyric

Live Your Life With a Purpose and Don'T With In the Wrong Crowd- Christen Kuikoua

...So precious yet so short
Life is indeed to us
Walking around in circles,
wasting around our time
Later, realizing that
Our selfish runs weren't important

Praising the wrong things
Wishing a ...
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Categories: envying, 10th grade, absence, career,
Form: Free verse

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