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Guttered Poems - Poems about Guttered

Premium Member Summoning Light
...over occupied world bewildering hodge-podge of people pushing stress where it ought not to be in the slim rays of late day in the splattered mess of guttered streets a homeless man asks for a ......

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Categories: guttered, care, city, light, poverty,
Form: Free verse
The Candle
...The candle guttered in the draft, She paused in her thoughts. Life had been good today, She had eaten a little. Gazing out to gather her thoughts, Children cowered in the filthy lanes. They had......

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Categories: guttered, conflict, world war i,
Form: Free verse



Letters
...They are only some old love letters that I keep in a box under the stair. Wrapped in string, with a wedding ring and a lock of auburn hair. And I take them out occasionally, and carefully unti......

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Categories: guttered, emotions, feelings, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magpie Murder
...Six magpies brought their mourning squawk, soon joined by several others, disturbing all their neighbour's talk and waking sleepy lovers. Some hopped and did their swaggered strut between a ......

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Categories: guttered, bereavement, bird, death, death
Form: Rhyme
Modern Times
... Modern Times Universal truths or Universal Studios? Can one distinguish any longer now That the Universe has shrunk to a Binary system of code, Arcane enough to keep most believing In ......

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Categories: guttered, anxiety, faith,
Form: Blank verse



Among the Souls of Empty Hearts
...Among the souls of empty hearts O distant bells of steeples chime in echoed hymns of saddened weep Comes again the midnight hour, down dampened cobblestone to creep Along the darkene......

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Categories: guttered, fear, horror,
Form: Rhyme
A Zambezi Saga
...The brook thrums as it vaults over the piled rocks Rolling on deep into the Zambezi valley Twisting, flirting with the rigdes that compliment the escarpment beyond And the indigenous lass strolle......

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Categories: guttered, africa,
Form: Narrative
Brahms and Liszt
...Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied Ganted, gubbed, guttered......

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Categories: guttered, drink,
Form: List
Premium Member A Sonnet For Bloody But Unbowed Heads
...A Sonnet For Bloody But Unbowed Heads The hands of my children’s raised arms Have become like released skeets; Their ebony hued bodies, a circled bull’s eye. Their blood flows down the guttered......

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Categories: guttered, america, analogy, betrayal, black
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Drive By
...DRIVE BY… In chilled onyx morning Silicon tears flowed Down the plowed valleys Of ebony skin. Silicon tears Leaking from sunken craters: Red orbs bleeding residues of pain. In the cold......

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Categories: guttered, anxiety, bereavement, children, grief,
Form: Prose Poetry
Vincent
...July 29, 1890 Colored daubs and swatches crave artist’s practiced hand. Justice, nearly blind, yet watches— unwrought art upon a stand. Regard the brushes in a row— the palettes an......

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Categories: guttered, betrayal, corruption, evil, vanity,
Form: Quatrain
Gazing At Cindered Skies
...Torturous curves bending vision, twisting to hide beyond today what the prism of the future holds captive down the whispered way. Lost to us Love's fledgling glory, gazing too long at cindered s......

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Categories: guttered, first love, goodbye, lost
Form: Rhyme
Chased
...chased such a long time I was behind myself cobbled roads with water streaming down the guttered edges pouring into the end of a river I chased myself there alone nothing this end of town ......

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Categories: guttered, heart, inspiration, time, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Failure
...FAILURE. Isolated tentative in rosy tower Sublime detached observer of success Making its own life and time Swallowing in one long yawn all the glories Keen scented existence and sanctified ......

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Categories: guttered, allegory, philosophy, poets,
Form: Verse
Untitled
...Love.. one of the four letter words that is strong But yet is guttered out of your mouth And captured by a faded kiss that you gave me The eyes that I once believed was innocent Became the wicked ......

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Categories: guttered, lost love,
Form: I do not know?

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