Faces Poems - Poems about Faces

The table’s set, the cards are stacked, Coffee is ready, out come the snacks. Allana grins, that knowing look— She’s got Phase 1 like it’s a book. We start out slow, just laying sets, But soon the room is full of bets: “Will she skip me?” “Who's on Phase 3?” The drama builds deliciously. A run of four, a colour sweep, Wild cards hoarded,...

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The faces I meet don't echo the songs of a love I have sought for so very long....

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"God created man(kind) in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. " "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ~Genesis 1:31 & 1:27 "In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. " ~Maya Angelou grateful God created a vast variety...

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My heart pleads, and I know not how to proceed, You shine just like phosphorus in outer space~ As Venus’ nebula that draws eyes with speed, A celestial reign of elegance and grace. In my mind, your love has always come with fame; Your stars still brighten, needing no lunar peek. With a lilt not lost in hubbub’s show of shame, A...

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Horn Places and Faces Haiku were newfound places so many styles and graces educated faces...

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Some hand you smiles dipped in napalm, Then turn to poison the second you drop your guard. Humans, Moral plastic caught in flame, Deals of décor, rotting behind the facade. Draw your lines, don’t offer the other cheek, Run before you melt, before their vice seeps in. Don’t become their reflection in the sewage creek, Shield your core, gun down their shadowed...

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when old people talk about their past loves they don't talk about what it was like when their love left. they don't talk about the feeling the next morning when all you want to do is call. they don't talk about how the first week is hell. they don't talk about how every part of you wants to go...

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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." -- Jesus Christ of Nazareth John 15:12 KJV Bible I study each face as I walk crowded streets do they see? me in them and them in me parts of one body I will hope for more compassion <3 charity <3 I love you! this wilderness of mirrors reflects who I am ...

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i long for silence when i can search the darkened sinews of my mind i crave solitude where i can think and get to what's really in my heart i love to sit alone with pen and paper to extract words of poetry from my soul AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Submitted on May 24, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE N sponsored by BRIAN STRAND -...

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Afterglow ...

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Sometimes you mold faces, my love, to hide the deep sadness, to forget yourself, to banish the bitter thoughts that weigh you down. How can you create love, my love, to live, to suffer in this summer, which presses on you like a sea with its colossal, unforgiving weight? The burden crushes you, dragging you into the black earth...

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I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have Stapled back onto ourselves— The faces we’ve taught everyone to believe: Just dumb enough and just nice enough; Just guileless enough to look acceptable. Can’t you smell the rot of that dead thing? We smooth down...

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Miles apart—aging and evolving, Familiar Faces—stars I forgot to name welcome me with gentle gravity. Doubts retreat, anxieties weaken— shadows realizing they are only shadows. I could not imagine the warmth of human light, til I stood bravely in their spaces. ...

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Soupers often engage in emotional ways. There can be depth in what two might exchange. When someone leaves our shared Soup domain, their diminished light is a missed, valued sight. Some remarks feel like word-shaped embraces and time together often leaves valued traces. Is is not odd, just plain strange, as well as an ache that Soup relationships are both...

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She asked her daughter to explain fully How she became the target of a female bully “The bully said I have an odd, long face The kids cried, ‘Disgrace, disgrace, disgrace!’” “Oh Mom, please, is it true? Is my face odd and long, I’m asking you?” Oh sweetie, I’m sure you heard it wrong, No doubt what she said was O-B, oblong “Oblong?...

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