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Grimaces Poems - Poems about Grimaces

Premium Member The World is Bleeding
...The world is bleeding We stand at the edge of a precipice, Looking in fear on our Earth, Boiling, bubbling, and steaming, With pools of blood flowing. Warplanes blanket the sky. V......

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Categories: grimaces, angst, death, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
... “Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep” Following the Babel paths, where footprints progress like rough-hewn braille, temptation shows i......

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Categories: grimaces, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A kick up the rear
...I've been attentive.' Aware of passive hostile directive eu implied power.' The titans of 'this hour?' Hmm.' As One who does know God.' I offer Some thought? In respect.' In amity; in response.'......

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Categories: grimaces, abuse, america, betrayal, character,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Tidings
...Midwinter - means transparent ice walls pressed against shrinking skin. Dead-eyed horses are revived only by the steam of their nostrils. No one predicts a beginning or an end, 'mid' is a f......

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Categories: grimaces, poetry,
Form: Free verse
THE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIES
...THE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIES I was not searching, but just stumbled on it Across a dusty box of memories in my brain Not the usual recollection of a pleasant time But some events that never seemed......

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Categories: grimaces, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Innocent
...Vigilant, I watched you sleep, your face untroubled, unwrinkled by harsh, corrugating conscious time. Did dreams of comforts or of losses once bring smiles, grimaces? Free from worldly wo......

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Categories: grimaces, bereavement, death, devotion, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-
...Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes… Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-i......

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Categories: grimaces, angst, anxiety, community, confidence,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member In the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold stories
...In the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold stories, And I, an eternal child, wander through the corridors of time, seeking answers in the eyes of those......

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Categories: grimaces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Muscle and Heart
...The bell rings out loudly, signals the start, must earn my keep through the pugilist’s art, my foe is a tall one, beats me in reach, to get in close my trainer sought to teach, where those long a......

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Categories: grimaces, career, conflict, imagery, money,
Form: Rhyme
Pause for thought
... I can feel my tendons contort The sickening crunch of bones breakage The skin across my face pulling to a snout My lips ripping apart as razored enamel adorns a snap Can’t stand Beneath me ......

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Categories: grimaces, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming......

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Categories: grimaces, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In the chamber of silence where souls converge
...In the chamber of silence where souls converge, Masks lie in wait, the nocturnal guardians of our being. Adorned with grimaces and velvet smiles, They are armors against the unknown arrows of the ......

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Categories: grimaces, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
An anticlimactic sexual event
...An anticlimactic sexual event... with Barb Black née Beebee to help set the ghost of little Willy Brandt free (a non German, but germane fellow courtesy Craigslist classified personals of m......

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Categories: grimaces, 12th grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
...The Intricate Mysteries of Being An albatross flying across the Antarctic A telescope monitoring the intergalactic A horoscope sharing interplanetary plastic Let’s elope while we still think......

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Categories: grimaces, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Just Sayin', Not Done Slayin'
...I don’t want you to think I’m a suicidal boy at night I am constantly wandering around town all alone now I don’t want you to think I’m calling wolf all the time I’m just sayin’ — I’m stronger tha......

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Categories: grimaces, courage,
Form: Lyric

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