Festers Poems

Premium MemberReprobate of a Draconian State

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There's tyranny taking place in the United States.
Fear of it becoming a Draconian State is not just a threat.
It's reality, thanks to the presidential powermonger
whose hunger and thirst for ...
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Categories: festers, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnweaving the Silent Loom

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the great unweaving
begins as dreams unravel
empires sleep guilded
lulled by their hollow splendor
blind to the moths in the weave

stone slowly crumbles
not in one thunderous fall
dropping...
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Categories: festers, angst, anxiety, fate, fear,
Form: Lyric


Premium Memberwhite birds leave

...rotting mango skins,
envy festers in the heat-
white birds rise and leave....
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Categories: festers, corruption,
Form: Haiku

The Farmer's Rain

...Drops.
In clots they come,
Jetting down festers of
The mean clouds that soar even higher.

Down here, the feet of the soil are mere clod.

Furnace rules upon the face of the waves,
Brewed and...
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Categories: festers, farm, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse

ENVY

...It enters like an old friend
Too familiar to knock
Slipping in quietly
When joy is about to speak.

It frowns at others’ laughter
Shudders at joined hands
Sours even the sweetest moments
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Categories: festers, 12th grade, desire, evil,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberBlemish to Menace

...There are people who take what they want
pez dispensers of pain and suffering
gleaning never planting
rapists of confidence 
of fresh air...
staining the soul of everything
tumors in the marrow...
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Categories: festers, society,
Form: Free verse

Choked Bloom

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The girl weeps a bruised and bitter rain,
A childhood choked, a garden grown in pain.
My laughter, brittle glass, it cracks and breaks,
Beneath the weight of unforgiving stakes.

They built a ...
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Categories: festers, 10th grade, abuse, cry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLet it -----RAIN, Lyrics

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I'm trapped in this cave
Enslaved by a legion of chains
Your puppets jeer and taunt
Painting the wall as droplets fall
The cobra dance in the flame
Scarlet and velvet choke the air
Till a hea...
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Categories: festers, anger, betrayal, hate, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberCryptic Cipher in the Crypt

...(Begin: There is no beginning.)

(O' my--not again--you should not have started.)

 The quill burrows. No--splinters. No--fractures. No--was nev...
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Categories: festers, confusion, dark, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberDoors Left Ajar

...When those in this nation,                                                                                                                                                                             ...
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Categories: festers, anti bullying, culture, feelings,
Form: Spoken Word

I Glowed Within My Ode

...I am always willing to learn, I am curious to learn about myself
And I am man enough to admit when I need help
Accepting of my mistakes even if I don't know what it’s for
My radiant smile will alw...
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Categories: festers, 12th grade,
Form: Ode

The Blade that Never Heals

...A dagger’s kiss is cold and clean, But betrayal carves where none have seen.

It does not bleed, it does not scream, Yet haunts the soul in every dream.

A wound that festers, black and deep, A s...
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Categories: festers, betrayal,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberIronies Within Ironies

...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research...
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Categories: festers, education, irony,
Form: Haibun

Earth Undone

...Mountains made of waves
tore the flesh from Mother Earth —
flayed and flooding.

The mud grieves beneath her,
clogged with stagnant saline.
She used to breathe — rivers ran wild and...
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Categories: festers, earth, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Rise Anyway

...Lift the chin, my friend.
Let the dawn break through
whatever yesterday left behind.
The path was never meant
to be clean or quiet—
it’s blood,
and gravel,
and stubborn breath.

But you’re n...
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Categories: festers, power,
Form: Free verse

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