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Flattening Poems - Poems about Flattening

Premium Member Sanguine Patience
... False faces and pretentious promises churn my heart, like what the desert storm does to the dunes. I can’t calm down my mind’s twirling turbulence as the friction of fury shatters the shield ......

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Categories: flattening, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Granddaughter to Grandmother, Grandmother to Grandmother
... The wind is blowing cold tonight through chambers of my mind Sadness creeps beneath the door ......

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Categories: flattening, age, granddaughter, grandmother, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member How the echo filters reality
... It creeps up on me early morning and again late afternoon a microcephalic shadow, almost the length of a football pitch, Land of the giants view My childlike head is miles away and dwind......

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Categories: flattening, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Promise, It's Nothing Personal
... Only twenty-five years since I took your name, fluorescent lights, a government building, the officiant a stranger we met that morning— no pictures, no rehearsals, just vows read like lines on ......

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Categories: flattening, endurance, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Idiot savants
...Go and gather up the known affiliates. We're gonna build a village of idiots. We gotta make sure this gets crazy. "Getting out of hand" to me is just lazy. Had our fill of tastless "pain et cirqu......

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Categories: flattening, corruption, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



The Beastly System
...Life shattered by the state merciless and heavy handed... It may seem as if a fate threw you here to be stranded. All alone with your sorrow, with the grief stamped on your soul for today and......

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Categories: flattening, abuse, care, heartbroken, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alien Observation
...Wind circulates, lifting and flattening an otherwise, benign, breathless world, relying also on deeper, slowly moving tectonics, belching foully, scattering seas...effecting change. Seasons lik......

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Categories: flattening, destiny, environment, humanity, nature,
Form: Free verse
Flames
...We were flying back after flattening Coventry, all of us cheerful, confident young men, all heroes. On the return landing, amazingly we ......

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Categories: flattening, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wind
...I love the wind Blowing softly against my face, Fanning it on a hot Summer’s day, Stirring my hair; Making the branches and leaves quiver And the grasses to dance and sway, And all the while W......

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Categories: flattening, 6th grade, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Dumplings
...Dumplings As I walk into the kitchen, for a snack, my mother, her apron, night black hair, and jade bracelet, makes me dumplings. She combines the mixture of monotonous ingredients into so......

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Categories: flattening, 10th grade, food, mom,
Form: Free verse
Verisimilitude
...The view from this cracked motel window pairs perfectly with this dower depression flattening my mood and numbing my awareness, The sweet reward of a drink well drunk. The misshapen humps of old ......

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Categories: flattening, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Thunder
...Silent thunder Within heart toroidal Cold heat A ball of fire Magnetic Radiating Third eye Flattening out Across the forehead Spirit therein Nodes churning Whilst the ......

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Categories: flattening, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Worst of Humankind - Part 2
...Now you’re turning to the south To save your battered face, To claim some sort of victory By flattening the place. If soldiers cannot win your war You’ll bomb and you will shell: Blow everyth......

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Categories: flattening, anger, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphosis of a Stream
...It is serene, a stream flows behind the house, beyond are fields A pastoral landscape where the geese come to visit daily To our front lies a lake, momentarily drained, latent moor awaiting its......

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Categories: flattening, water,
Form: Free verse
Fried Turtles
...Fried Turtles The little dog chews on the blue wire His sharp teeth need blunting So he picked this bomb wire to gnaw He likes biting and such like One of his main interests His master’s finger......

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Categories: flattening, conflict, dog, satire,
Form: Verse

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