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Harshly Poems - Poems about Harshly

Premium Member Unintended Innuendo
...Line of inquiry: “as we passed her she did wilt which caused in us sense of guilt since our stance perhaps did cause to put her heart’s joy on pause though we’re gentle, not hostile we dimini......

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Categories: harshly, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thickened and scarred, my mask bears the burden of time
...Thickened and scarred, my mask bears the burden of time, Torn, stained, this tough shell silently unravels, And yet, somehow, it continues to keep me alive, to protect me from the world, It was ne......

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Categories: harshly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR EXISTING
...All those who chatter behind my back only confirm that I'm moving forward. I don’t slow down— their criticism, their slander is my fuel. Disguised applause from those who never had the guts to wa......

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Categories: harshly, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burning Faith
...Burning Faith While looking in the mirror Is disappointment, judgement, Or worse, disgust staring back? What judges from behind our eyes? What words come to mind? Our words, or the failings......

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Categories: harshly, anxiety, courage, faith, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Self Esteem
... "She looks just like you!" They say, and I beam! But they're saying much more than their saying seems… For I'd never say to her what I constantly say to me… ("You don't measure u......

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Categories: harshly, beauty, body, child, daughter,
Form: Rhyme



THE MIST OF PRIDE
... Can you ever be pleased, mankind? Everything we try, yet we're met with night. We're nerds, unaware of the truth's light, When all that pleases you lies in deceitful sight. "Do not be conform......

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Categories: harshly, anti bullying, anxiety, desire,
Form: Spoken Word
Plagued by Memories - Apr 18, 19
...how long and sourly sobs the lonely heart depends on how grave the weight which grieves the tears pouring from the despondent spirit’s pores.— a witness, too, will know the surly sort of rain t......

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Categories: harshly, anger, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
With Spring Comes Fall
...there is beauty in falling in love like soft spring the sun blazing in all its bright glory but not too harshly the clouds adrift - patchy enough to let the light seep through the trees create ......

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Categories: harshly, feelings, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Racial Discrimination
... Skin, a map of histories untold, a spectrum painted, in stories old. But eyes, they narrow, judge, and then they claim, a difference forged, in prejudice's flame. Words, like stones, ......

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Categories: harshly, discrimination, poetry, race,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tossci Bolt '
...Harshly treated at 'so called' court.. whose only scales Are visual.' In pure truth' such ruling is naught..No precedent of goodlaw given .' The judge surely needs to Be forgiven.' Such blatent an ......

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Categories: harshly, abuse, addiction, assonance, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waltz of the Dead
... Written 04/02/2025, for the Iron Maiden " Dance of Death" song, contest sponsored by Robert James L. ****************** Scary lie shrouded in opulence I ponder over ......

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Categories: harshly, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prince of Peace
...What I know of Jesus, I've only heard, first, in childhood, when I was sent to church where we were taught the Bible and the Word,  but that was not the source of my life's search.  A man of comp......

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Categories: harshly, love, peace,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member power of words
...“words when soft-spoken soothe, when harshly spoken hurt ~ say something kind, say nothing and hold unkind words.” ......

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Categories: harshly, words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Thrust In The Center Of The Storm
...Thrust in the center of the storm, all I could see was you; Brewing at the zenith of your strength, so hard to get through. But I dared rising up and chose to let you go, before ruining......

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Categories: harshly, abuse,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unfinished Lives
...When a life well lived has ended, it leaves an incomprehensible hole. How can we ever conceive of the disappearance of a soul? Yet, I think what's even sadder is when the things that could hav......

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Categories: harshly, grief,
Form: Rhyme

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