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Extinguishes Poems - Poems about Extinguishes

Fire the Immortal by Nova

...FIRE the Immortal
Fire the Immortal—primordial breath,
Kindled in chaos, a twin flame of death.
Born in the forge where the cosmos ignites,
It dances through nebulae, seeding the night.

With t...
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Categories: extinguishes, fire, god, light, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain

...Sometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain,
Most people think my pain is just poetry, just words, images from my wandering mind,
They don't see the battles...
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Categories: extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



T-A-L-E-N-T

...The T in talent are pieces of tampered glass
Subjugated under capitalism,
And meticulously carving out worthlessness
  on the talented's carcass.

The A stands for all the crumbs of appreciation...
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Categories: extinguishes, appreciation, dream, how i
Form: Free verse

Float

...My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Roiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roiling flame
Waters pulsing like a broiling...
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Categories: extinguishes, abuse, addiction, imagery, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDeprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyes

...Deprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyes,
with crow's feet drawing the story of endless nights on my face,
where each lie was your illusion, born from the confusion s...
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Categories: extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWorld Religions

...Judaism
The Mitzvah—God blesses every good deed
Thousands of years old
God Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham 
that if Abraham and his people the Hebrews 
Obey Him, 
He'd consider '...
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Categories: extinguishes, god, religion, world, ,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYour hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine

...Your hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine,
Let them glide over me slowly, like penance flowing as a slow river,
Let them cut every last fragment of restraint that still bi...
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Categories: extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Plain Girl

...“Why are you friends with someone like her when you could be friends with popular people?”

Someone like her.
Someone who doesn’t stand out
Not with looks
Not with personality

Plain ...
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Categories: extinguishes, anxiety, for teens, girl,
Form: Free verse

major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle

...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"

Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...
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Categories: extinguishes, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWho was there to answer you when the night spread its shadows over the city

...Who was there to answer you when the night spread its shadows over the city,
Who listened, like a silent tree in a storm, to all the untold stories,
Who wrapped you with caresses like a warm blanke...
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Categories: extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Petrarch translations into English

...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in hi...
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Categories: extinguishes, dark, desire, evil, heaven,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberTHE LIGHT that LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS

...'light '
extinguishes
   darkness
each new day
'light'
   illuminates
 at night
   moon and stars
to guide
 & navigate

'light'permeates
into every crevice
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Categories: extinguishes, christian,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberIn the deep night of my soul, when the world offers me a separate realm to dwell

...In the deep night of my soul, when the world offers me a separate realm to dwell,
A blessed curse, having only myself, I find myself again,
Caressed by the melancholy of a red silence, like a dream...
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Categories: extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSatchitananda

...What’s that fulfilment,
which extinguishes desires
and releases us from fear?

Once head melds with heart,
union of polarities,
results in bliss unending....
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Categories: extinguishes, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka

Premium MemberOne Flame

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each candle contains a Flame
life abounds within its Light
Fire when these Flames unite
and banishing the darkness

warm comfort flows from within
drives away the biting cold
the wind of d...
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Categories: extinguishes, death, family, fire, friend,
Form: Jueju

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