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High Poems - Poems about High

A High Rain
Yesterday was hot, it nailed its peeling skin to a desiccated air. This morning, rain is falling, but it has yet to land - a weightbearing sky creaks though it does not break. Above straining clouds a dam has broken, perhaps the deluge will crush all before it, but not yet, earth’s frying pan is lit and smoldering. The wilting dawn cannot wash its face, bedsheets smell...

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Categories: high, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Judgement's High Way
Judgement’s High Way My smug satisfaction drives in narrow lanes Deep with pitfalls of intentional ignorance “Righteous” reads my personal license plate Sentenced to loud lane-splitting intolerance. My bias trips on truth at tangled crossroads, Blinded to orgies in my house of thin glass, Cuts off compassion, in condescending tongues, Detours grace to side roads, a one-way bypass. But, grace stills my hands, determined...

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Categories: high, health, journey, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member High School Reunion
My high school reunion: old classmates, old friends, old adversaries, old strangers meet after decades trying to discern who's who, who's lived, who's passed, who's disappeared... lost youth commemorated... survival celebrated....

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Categories: anniversary, high school, remember,
Form: Free verse
Strength?
strength they call her fondly she's courage to some i hold her hand, let her in let her show me who i shall be i hold her hand, let her in let her guide me through the thorny scene she stayed, with regret hidden in neat folds of guilt she held grief, letting broken trust be built she held softness, she held...

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Categories: high, best friend, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High
Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S) Be always on the spotlight as they augment and compliment The guys in uniform ever shifting from one place to another Military BRAT’S never quite settle born and raised as sojourners Born of a...

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Categories: high, appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form: Narrative



Rely on every try
Oh my dear guy, ...

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Categories: high, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member DESPAIR NOT
DESPAIR NOT Root not in despair, be in the reaping of God’s fruits of healing grace: Glorified in your progress, continue plowing onward:- ...

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Categories: high, cheer up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Heydays and High Points
It’s the heyday of the preachers of doom nuclear paranoia, world goes boom Open Season to generalize with closed eyes all righties -- fascists lefties...

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Categories: high, fate, hate, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Lost interest
the songs i dont play anymore the love i once had for you it just melted to the floor .. useless, absurd, what was the point? A wasted heart given to the wrong one it was like a pain felt in my joint will i ever love again? I dont know i guess thats just how how this world flow. ...

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Categories: high, feelings, first love, for
Form: Rhyme
Too Much
It’s not alright ...

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Categories: high, 10th grade, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Not Enough
It’s alright ...

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Categories: high, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member High rapture days July 3-4, 2025 Q and A
Q Has Russia threatened to bomb Washington DC? A Yes Q Has DC been deleted from it cause of Russia? A Yes and it has been barricaded, evacuated and relocated into two separate locations and only the word Washington still remains on the...

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Categories: high, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member O Lord God, We lift Your Holy Name on High, Praise and Worship Psalms
O Lord God we lift Your Holy Name on High In all of our Praise and Worships Psalms That we sing unto You for great is Your Faithfulness and love You have shown All of Your beloved children dearest Lord! We shall sing unto You Lord a fresh new psalm And shall worship You out of our grateful hearts Over flowing with...

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Categories: high, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
The high jump would be totally different
See if there was an Olympic Games for drugs Would the use of every drug be expected All the MJ athletes still at the starting position in an endless loops of yeah are you alright 72 hours after the gun went Might have to call it a draw Ever coke cola fans disqualified for false starts That guy hit a satellite...

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Categories: high, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SUMMER RAIN
SUMMER RAIN God cried today His tears fertilizing The womb of Mother Earth: The wet smell Of nature’s essence Saturated the air As moist breeze blew Breath of new life Into dried hopes Wilted in despair:- The rainy season Of life has begun: Maybe love’s peace Will hollow her footprints In the canvassing mud:- ...

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Categories: allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Prose

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