Exceeds Poems

Hoar Bearded

...Your noor overflows from your majesty
Your name exceeds over milkyway galaxy

At the earth at seas at skies your place
Who is in trouble caught up by your aids

Your arms are behind the dam of ...
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Categories: exceeds, allah, islamic,
Form: Rhyme

Belittled

...#How_belitled_and_demoralized
my intuitiveness turned into a floor door mat, my innate abilities, said to be incompetent, my ego tarnished, worse when the gift I embraced in my palms from birth, as ...
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Categories: exceeds, assonance, character, friend, how
Form: Free verse


Gaza's Mothers

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In Gaza, the mothers don’t sleep, waiting in darkness, listening to the sky that’s been raining death  -- nothing to inspire a fairy-tale to lull their children to sleep, their ears sharpened to ...
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Categories: exceeds, mother,
Form: Free verse

TOUCH

...TOUCH :- to come in contact of someone/something
or feeling something against the skin.

How ordinary the word is,
How ordinary the definition is,
However, the sensation is not.

While pressin...
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Categories: exceeds, perspective, sensual,
Form: Free verse

silver anklets

..."When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. 
When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
-Quote by Confucius
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feminine luxury...
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Categories: exceeds, culture,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWhat Makes me Smile

...What makes me smile?—For one: the grin of life;
but, too, its touch of giggle grazing on 
my ticklish skin,—Though soon again withdrawn,
yet long lingers in memory, full, rife. 

This makes me s...
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Categories: exceeds, appreciation, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories: exceeds, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPurpose?

...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.—		and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—

to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...
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Categories: exceeds, art, creation, devotion, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Premium MemberThe Wisdom of Age

...That age brings wisdom, mainly aged say,
And yet, there comes a calm as passion dies;
And as a poet said another day,
The old, as good for nothing else, be wise.
What would I wish a younger me ha...
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Categories: exceeds, age, career, life, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet

River's Beauty

...The river bends, and the river breaks.
The mind, so pliable, so fragile.
In relation in the oddest ways.
The river effortlessly wanders through the landscape,
The mind effortlessly travels throug...
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Categories: exceeds, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhispering trees

...Listening through the surrounding
trees.
Sound of whispers heard from a slight breeze.
Cries heard in the distance, as the breeze
comforts The leaves.
Words joined together while starting to hea...
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Categories: exceeds, abuse, anger, art, butterfly,
Form: Free verse

a shatter of silence

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“A fight of voice exceeds one of fists.”

Bludgeoned, broken, cast away,
Time devours, your name decay,
Ascend beyond the gilded throne,
Unsung, unrested, still overthrown.
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Categories: exceeds, angst, appreciation, thank you,
Form: Free verse

Is it as it seems

...A bottle of water,
Bought from the store,
Could be used once,
Then thrown to the floor.

A can of soda,
From the shop,
Once used, discarded,
No need for more pop.

If I look at it,
From a ...
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Categories: exceeds, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn Origin

...In origin, all form in chaos lay:
One wilderness of warped and seething spray.
Thus, intermixed lay Earth and Sky and Sea,
Until a cooling calm let order be.
Cool crystallized, the Earth and Sea ...
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Categories: exceeds, earth, flower, garden, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe River Styx

...On the bank of the river Styx,
Life and death and forever mix,
There’s no keeping who its water picks,
Say farewell by the river Styx.

I lived my life in the land of light,
Yet now I cross to ...
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Categories: exceeds, absence, bereavement, cry, death,
Form: Lyric

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