Forlornness
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Empty room, cold light,
Shadows lengthen, silent walls,
Heart's soft, fading beat.
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Categories:
forlornness, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
Cadence Of Death
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Inspired by Iron Maiden’s song Dance of Death
When the transiting sun shined enchantingly,
spreading color spectrum in the chameleon sky,
I saw once the masked figures of ingenious craft, ...
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Categories:
forlornness, analogy, death, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Lost Forlornly in Space
...Inspired by Iron Maiden’s “The Final Frontier:
#18 on Best New Poems List , May 16, 2025
I am but one person
on a mission that went wrong -
locked out of the safety
of the spaceship I was on.
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Categories:
forlornness, science fiction,
Form: Quatrain
Be What You Are
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The frolic boughs of trees tremble,
butterfly-latticed leaves flutter
in the trail of summer squall,
where the feisty forest plays with foliage.
Don’t make your mind
a sprawling forest of...
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Categories:
forlornness, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse
Numbers of love
...A night slipped away,
one wept to sleep, one had bunches to dream.
A couple of lines the poet wrote,
nothing that the muse saw.
Three simple words kept the lovelorn up,
four texts sent for ...
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Categories:
forlornness, cry, heartbroken, hurt, writing,
Form: Rhyme
No Cuddles In Shadow
...Written: October 09, 2023
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There are no blooms to snuggle in the twilight
No promise that it will ever reach the zenith.
Either the sky is c...
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Categories:
forlornness, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Soul Battle
...Written: October 05, 2023
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Where the paradisiacal angels reside.
A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide
A dinkum dissolut...
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Categories:
forlornness, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Kaleidoscopic
...“The rays of setting sun design the unframed dreams
in life’s kaleidoscopic snapshot.” – by Poet
The revolving wheel of the ceaseless time
rotates the contrived kaleidoscope of life,...
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Categories:
forlornness, analogy, change, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Soul Harmony
...paradoxically my forlornness
profound
aggravation runs high gear
can't drown
thrash around
then toss back
the cover
dropping knees
shout out u...
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Categories:
forlornness, appreciation, beauty, god,
Form: Other
They Sip Soul's Ambrosia
...In the desolate domain of eerie milieu
under the ebony opaque sky,
on the murky hideous landscape
the nocturnal creatures prowl and try
to stalk those who can’t see
the nightriders s...
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Categories:
forlornness, dark, night,
Form: Rhyme
Eagle Fly
...Eagle's trip of forlornness
Starts off lofty
As it spreads
Its forceful wings
And ascends
On the breezes
That bring the tempest...
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Categories:
forlornness, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse
Eyes of Diversity
...We are children of the central sun,
secular seclusiveness becoming none…
Fallen angels in a spiritual spun,
pious partitions of a secretive stun.
Sceptical segregational spores,
seductresses...
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Categories:
forlornness, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Nightfall
...As the night falls from interstices of burning clouds, lumbering through the broad sky like grazing herds of sheep
There comes a great forlornness through the deep forests of Zambia.
Land marked by...
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Categories:
forlornness, 1st grade, animal, extended
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Palace of Aloneness
...A Palace of Aloneness.
This palace of aloneness is not my home.
It's bricks know only the time of run-off bygones.
Transition past it's thousand entrances
Impaired with creeping ivy
Into it...
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Categories:
forlornness, endurance, feelings, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Old Unemployed Man Or a Suburban Poem
...His oars (mind, arms, and legs)
were insufficient as propellers to earn a living.
In the underground´s nasty passageway;
or was in his life´s nasty passageway?
Anyway! There, he, like an imbecile...
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Categories:
forlornness, age, destiny, fate, hope,
Form: Ballad
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