Forgoing Poems

Premium MemberI'm just starting - in Trump's own words

...Everything I've touched has turned to gold,
A feeling that never gets too worn or old,
I savor every moment, every win,
With my opponents stuck in their unsightly bin.

The more they shout and f...
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Categories: forgoing, confidence, humorous, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberO My Brother I feel your Pain

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O my brother, I can see your pain.
Unlike the ignorant, I hear your screams,
yet you refuse to explain, why you're
lost in forgotten fast flowing streams,
wandering like a forgoing wave,
think...
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Categories: forgoing, angst, brother, emotions,
Form: Rhyme


Assassinated Alphabet

...Absolutely annihilated another one as adverbs and adjectives aimed accurately at both barking brown bulldogs, causing complete chaos.
N city coppers come quicker considering crime's definitely doubl...
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Categories: forgoing, allegory, analogy, deep, desire,
Form: Spoken Word

Premium MemberA chance to rise

...And I'm guarded,
like I'm wounded,
my first instincts,
are to find a hole,
dig in, seek ascendance 

I wanna lighten my dark,
I wanna swallow the sun,
I wanna feel single; one of one—
I wann...
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Categories: forgoing, endurance, fire, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Gift

...My Gift

My gift to
You is
Gladly giving myself
In deepest love,
Forgoing my selfish ways
Totally surrendered to you
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Categories: forgoing, love,
Form: Acrostic


ANYTE OF TEGEA TRANSLATIONS

...ANYTE OF TEGEA

Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this i...
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Categories: forgoing, beach, drink, grief, sea,
Form: Epigram

Part With New Moon Minichu

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This lunar ring's dark mood —
A colorless chain hung that
Vibes in the cornfield croon

She's an invisible gait —
A new moon's misses blowing
In her twilit ways

Sowing
Forgoing
Growing
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Categories: forgoing, angst, introspection, longing, missing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJust Pray For The Answer

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We're born with bodies- set up very well
to grow, survive for sure by what we're shown;
with instincts also ingrained so we dwell
to eat, and drink, then sleep as nature's own.

But th...
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Categories: forgoing, humanity, peace, world,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Premium MemberMy future self

...In a dream of future foreseen, a stranger I see,
Familiar, yet foreign, just staring back at me.
Lines etched by laughter, eyes bright with knowing,
Face creased, scarred and pitted with forgoing,...
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Categories: forgoing, age, fate, fear, self,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFor the love of salt and sea

...For the love of Salt and Sea
A man,
Standing tall and feelin free.
With his old raggedy clothes,
Pipe
And his sunburnt nose.
On the bow of Ole Navy,
Just watching,
And waiting for the Jubilee...
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Categories: forgoing, blue, boat, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme

Wanderdust 2

...Or are we included all along, just not privy to the. 
      visibilty path of our fog laden destinations, looking. 
      long.
     Into the ignorant bliss of the Forests of delusion we. 
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Categories: forgoing, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAway In a Sleigh

...Away in a sleigh
No gifts for today
Santa's gone on holiday
Reindeer unyoked, stray

Mr Claus found a clause
In his contract, to pause,
When boots on reindeer paws
Were threadbare without cau...
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Categories: forgoing, animal, christmas, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member--Still Accepting Donations

...My poetry's too cute
    I need a vacation

  I'm better off mute ~
    though I'm forgoing cremation...
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Categories: forgoing, cute, me, poetry, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

I Am Tired of That

...#And The Question Begs...

HOW TIRED AM I?

GIVING IN FASHION THAT ONE CAN BARELY MUSTER PASSION {FOR MYSELF LATELY} BECAUSE...FEELING...
TOO DAMN TIRED...
TOO DAMN DRAINED...
TOO DAMN PAINED....
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Categories: forgoing, encouraging, extended metaphor, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Dusting of Cinnamon

...Drawing near to the end of May
(The month devoted to Mary)
Sweet-scented thoughts of yesterday
Immerse me in books! I tarry...

From the Spring-cleaning I should do
And progressing with my job ...
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Categories: forgoing, books, food, may, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet

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