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Freighted Poems - Poems about Freighted

For Refaat Alareer, Palestinian Poet

..."There is a window open from my heart to yours." Rumi

See the splendor of pained poetic souls.

After he died, leapt out in the air above,
turned into a star in Gaza's bleak sky,
pouring words...
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Categories: freighted, appreciation, memorial,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHis Overboard Tale

...Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and
freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.
—H.P. Lovecraft, The Best of H.P. Lovecraft:
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabr...
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Categories: freighted, fear, sea,
Form: Free verse



Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person

...Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person...

hashtagged introvertedness trademark
silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified
Impossible mission to resuscitate...
a forsaken prom...
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Categories: freighted, 7th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes

...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories: freighted, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme

The Midnight Crown

...The silent night walks like a freighted man in boots, and penetrates the head of the living dead while they lay down in silence to sleep. Not a sound could be heard except for the voices of the choru...
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Categories: freighted, absence, adventure, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023

...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023

Unseen enemy invades my body 
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz 
Hib bully knock and sock kin me 
c...
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Categories: freighted, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme

Prelude

...Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body...
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Categories: freighted, angel, art, assonance, beauty,
Form: Blank verse

I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather

...I loathe feeling under the weather...,

especially when nasty elephant 
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine 
struggle to band together...
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Categories: freighted, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Anti Establishmentarian Hashtags Himself As Antithetical

...Anti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical

The following poem crafted 
not quite thirty months ago,
when severe bad hair day
found yours truly self sequestered
toying with noti...
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Categories: freighted, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAn Evening Stroll

...An evening stroll, on a chill night,
under the silver light of the horizon moon. 
Life that burst among a small acreage, 
of old-growth forests, flourished. 

A delightful flurry of fireflies, d...
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Categories: freighted, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrain Journey

...I looked onto the railway tracks
Relieving myself of cities grey
Exuberant in freighted happiness
As I watch the smoke puffs die away

My thoughts running on labyrinth tracks
Lapping up the mil...
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Categories: freighted, journey,
Form: Free verse

Anti Establishmentarian - Hashtags Himself As Antithetical

...Anti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical

I stand, (albeit figuratively) athwart
current mainstream popular opinions concluded
(i.e. swirling) within
metaphorical eddies storie...
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Categories: freighted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse

Angels and Demons

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"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insom...
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Categories: freighted, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse

Winter Solstice 2019 In Northern Hemisphere

...Saturday, December 21 Military Time 2319

(According to website:
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-
essentials/everything-you-need-
to-know-december-solstice.)

Hark the herald angels sing
yea, ...
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Categories: freighted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse

Done Fighting

...Like a mystical wight,
Ain't in a trance,
Nor experiencing delusions and phantasmagoria.
I live. I fight,
Fighting
Because the decision to be free
Is that which I took freely,
Yet, criticized ...
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Categories: freighted, freedom, success,
Form: Free verse

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