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Extremity Poems - Poems about Extremity

August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories: extremity, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Truth of Life

...Some people assume and say
they  bring nothing on their birth
and take nothing on their way
when they leave this earth

But I strongly oppose
as  I observed with perception 
it isn’t odd as yo...
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Categories: extremity, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme



My Type of Jealousy

...I’m jealous of successful individuals
I’m afraid people talk behind my back and act like I’m the fool
I’m envious of happy-go-lucky couples
I need to feel joy towards them, but how when I’m this s...
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Categories: extremity, angst, jealousy, muse,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAge of Aquarius

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Time was when in a golden age begun
  a boy was I and a vision was she,
and at the heart of her constellation 
  gazed I upon its infinite beauty.
I vowed the ends of the earth to follow
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Categories: extremity, childhood, first love, imagery,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMiddle

...In youth, vacations lent my Summers wings
and Christmas gilded wintertime in gold.
I've aged (a bit) and love my Falls and Springs
for landing in between too hot or cold.
In time, I've learned it...
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Categories: extremity, age,
Form: Sonnet



The Broken Bond

...The sea of vacillation 
The intense aura of gloom
The acute fever of desolation 
The gaudy flowers that didn't bloom

The essence of emotions piercing my heart 
My transmogrification into a veh...
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Categories: extremity, addiction, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Rhyme Royal

The Apocalypse

...The ocean of vacillation..
The intense aura of gloom...
The essence of emotion piercing my heart...
The extremity of unrequited love...
The promotion of my quintessential idiosyncrasies ...
The ...
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Categories: extremity, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRestful Sleep

...Desmond Tutu strove hard to battle desultory extremity?
Humanity's hurdle is to sustain and esteem diversity.

One day, He saw a "Whites Only" sign on the exterior bath gate.
Said, "What i...
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Categories: extremity, analogy, appreciation, discrimination, meaningful,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberMy Affinity

...I shall live the rest of my life in serenity
With beautiful thoughts filling my mind,
A desire to love and be loved is my affinity.

Some may say this lofty goal an extremity
No doubt...
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Categories: extremity, celebrity, integrity, life, love,
Form: Villanelle

August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since

...August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...

Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason: 
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who co...
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Categories: extremity, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

A Tribute To Soldiers

...Lofty glory  be   to  the  soldiers
Who   committedly  protect the  land -
It's  people  and the line of culture ,
Of  the  time-run ,running  and  future ,
Woods, rivers, fields and stretch of s...
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Categories: extremity, courage, soldier,
Form: Lyric

Clouds Dark

...Sky murky
A biting wind blows furiously
Swirling about ghostly
Whistling against the extremity
As dark clouds show
With drifts through
Begin to form anew
Ensuing cloudburst view...
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Categories: extremity, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAugenblick

...Augenblick
By David J Walker

The edge	 the border
     The  verge	the skirt
The last words heard before 
	The brink 
The perimeter	the periphery
The point	 the bound
          A wink

All...
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Categories: extremity, allegory, death,
Form: Rhyme

Wicked Bad Designed Day

...(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one...
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Categories: extremity, abuse, adventure, angst, good
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlowing Thoughts

...FLOWING THOUGHTS

When love flows free,
In abundance,
And you feel all the earths
Chains have been released,
The time has come
For exultation!

Rejoice now,
For tomorrow may be
Too late, a...
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Categories: extremity, love,
Form: Prose

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