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Few Short Years Poems - Poems about Few Short Years

The Brightest Girl In The Room

...She didn’t deserve it
Yet death never ceases. 

She was the brightest girl in the room
Despite injuries blocking her passion.
She conjured smiles and laughter and eye rolls
With everything she ...
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Categories: few short years, death, friendship, girl, grief,
Form: Free verse

Dogs

...There's a reason why dog spelled backwards is god.
Because they were gods, put on earth secretly
To live and breathe, hidden among us mortals,
And to show us the reverberations of our kindness
An...
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Categories: few short years, animal, appreciation, beauty, dog,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberNO

...NO 
Where do you start with suicide
I`ve been struggling with what to say,
But no one in society is immune from this
The numbers rise each day.

You can sit back and think it will never be me
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Categories: few short years, absence, abuse, addiction, angst,
Form: Rhyme

TICKETS TO THE TOMB

..."Just for tonight," they say with a grin
As they chug their drinks and toast to sin.  
"Life's too short," they laugh and puff 
Not knowing their fun's just deadly stuff.

Unbeknownst, they book...
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Categories: few short years, 12th grade, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Cry For The Children

...I cry for the boys who just need to be left to be themselves
To play and explore, take risks and learn the hard way
With peers, and fathers and grandfathers
Getting the role models they need and d...
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Categories: few short years, child, mentor, perspective, social,
Form: Narrative



In a Car

...It’s hard to get from A to B
If you are in a car,
Although I guess it could depend,
Of course, on where you are.

In New York’s metro area,
The traffic’s so much worse
Than just a few short ye...
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Categories: few short years, car, new york,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHector

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He claimed the highest perch
in the breeding loft and was, by far,
the biggest pigeon in the flock.
I named him Hector.
A thick, puffed up ball
of red feathers and testosterone 
made him st...
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Categories: few short years, bird, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Another Day

...Another day without her
She said I'd miss her so
Why did she leave me
Why did she have to go
I think about her
And her beautiful ways
I can't help but think of
Those last few hard days
I'd go...
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Categories: few short years, best friend, death of
Form: Rhyme

Battling

...**My mental state here lately, hasn't been very well,
Mainly because of everything I'm medically battling through.
But whenever it's gotten to be too much, I feel like I blasted through Hell,
My b...
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Categories: few short years, feelings, pain, poetess, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWithout Faith It Is Impossible To Please Him Hebrews 11:6

..."Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he (or she) that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6

"Faith without w...
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Categories: few short years, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberZoom - Buzzwords

..."Work pals who Zoom together, stay together." (taken from an article "36 captions for Zoom Meetings, not attributed to anybody in particular)


I’d never heard of Zoom before a few short years ago...
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Categories: few short years, technology,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberIf the Chinese Communits Party Ruled the World Part One

...If the Chinese Communist Party ruled the world? If you were young, healthy and male! Especially, if you were Muslim! They would harvest your organs while you were still alive! The records show they a...
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Categories: few short years, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Robot Souls, Part I

...If this were just a few short years ago
I would not be able to tell this tale,
since rhyming verse is not something that a
simple robot would choose as a travail.

It’s not that I wouldn’t know ...
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Categories: few short years, creation, hope, humanity, science
Form: Epic

Waste

...Nature in it’s utmost,
has no wont of haste.
Time has little meaning,
and there is no waste.

One year or a million,
matters not at all,
everything that lives,
eventually will fall.

Ashes ...
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Categories: few short years, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLady Blow Torch

...Long Lost-Godless fire breathing dragon Land.
Tiananmen tanks rolling over your fellow man.
Glean away your newborn daughter's sheen.
Scumble the villagers, drown out their dreams.
Build plastic ...
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Categories: few short years, anti bullying, faith, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

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