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Genuflecting Poems - Poems about Genuflecting

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...Some haunt me pleasantly,
Using the grains of dewy silence that speak loudly
Within the long, grey halls of history.
I recline on such images with smiles I borrow from
The penetralia of my soul a...
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Categories: genuflecting, community, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOnce upon perdition :now a dedication:

...This POTD is dedicated to Di11y Da11y 
who spoke the truth and paid the price! 

to the unheard poet 
you weren’t driven away 
you moved beyond them 
_______________________

Once upon perdit...
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Categories: genuflecting, life, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Coming Andantes

...you are flying on a hazy dream carpet —
floating up there, above these old streets, 
these ancient genuflecting pines and cedars,
rising above the sleeping dead on Broadway, 
soaring now through ...
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Categories: genuflecting, life, memory,
Form: Free verse

Every Man

...I live in every man's struggles.
I lose myself in the crowd;
Everyone has a story of loss,
Of a childhood that ended abruptly,
Transmogrified into juvenile gods,
Worshipping, genuflecting, react...
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Categories: genuflecting, farewell, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberADMIRATIONS a chance poem in open form

...ADMIRATIONS
captivated
  by
    the imperative
genuflecting
  the polyphonetic
with
demode
  certainties

castigating
  & circumventing
pressures

entranced
    by
      the
unsettli...
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Categories: genuflecting, poetry, word play,
Form: Verse



Premium MemberMotherland

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"Motherland"

The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,

fingers have a personality and a mind 
of their own, don’t you agree?

the stalwart mind converses wit...
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Categories: genuflecting, child abuse, dark, light,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Altar of Years

...Most of my flying now
is restricted to planes,
feet less able to 
“trip the life fantastic” -- 

age having slowed fast living
to delayed starts and early
finishes – 

joining the genuflecti...
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Categories: genuflecting, faith, introspection, journey, religious,
Form: Free verse

Faith's Chained Haiku

...The living mindscape.
      Virtues stage, showing colors.
      Painting the belief.

 Sculpted in truth's form.
 A resurrect, re birthing.
 A glorious seed.

      Sunlight on our skin.
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Categories: genuflecting, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

The Epiphany Rose

...
"The Epiphany Rose"

All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness 
drew out the poets 
in all the shunned
playing up and out 
their origami
word games

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Categories: genuflecting, muse,
Form: Narrative

The Payload

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"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
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Categories: genuflecting, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberConsider the Lilies

...“Consider the lilies,” the wise Solomon said
They do not spend their time in worry,
Though they know they soon will fade ~~
They present themselves in all their glory,
Neither genufle...
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Categories: genuflecting, flower, uplifting,
Form: Quintain (English)

Premium MemberOnce Upon Perdition

...The apostate looked out his window,
and started to believe 
As genuflecting pylons, 
sent ramifications through the trees
Chaos looked at reason,
was it about to make a plea
I see Satan’s raisi...
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Categories: genuflecting, allegory, humanity, surreal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDrink the Kool-Aid

...Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug – 
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in 
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:

Those mindless, confusing ...
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Categories: genuflecting, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf I Was As Clever As I Think I Am

...If I was half as clever as I think I am
People would whisper about my whimsical wily ways.
Warlocks would warn witches about my wit.
We would be reading about me in a World Book.

If I was as hu...
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Categories: genuflecting, me,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Child Leads Us

...We were intimidated by stone man
Wondering why he was genuflecting
We reflected on it as only adults can do
Wesley walked over to touch him and say “hi”.

They had an intense conversation, this ...
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Categories: genuflecting, child,
Form: Prose Poetry

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