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Inflates Poems - Poems about Inflates

Premium MemberWearable Tech

...I think that if I could have wearable tech
it might be a vest that inflates in a wreck.
Perhaps a decoder of lyrics by Beck,
or one that converts between gallons and pecks?
Or lets me run wild in...
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Categories: inflates, silly, technology,
Form: Monorhyme

EGO Vs OGE

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EGO and OGE, paradoxical words, 
Contrast in essence, like songbirds and herds.

While EGO inflates chest with pride, 
OGE humbles, letting grace reside.

EGO demands attention, steals the ...
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Categories: inflates, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1

...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Because morning glories
held my well-bucket hostage
I went be...
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Categories: inflates, animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku

Pride

...One of the easiest mistakes to make is having too much pride.

It is the sneakiest of snakes as it makes its home inside.

It only needs the teeniest tinyest of space til it inflates then trouble...
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Categories: inflates, pride,
Form: Free verse

Living In Purgatory

...Living in Purgatory

What do you do when you've had enough
You Can't end it all
But you no longer want to continue 
Because you cant move forward
The pasts grip 
is holding you back 
But it w...
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Categories: inflates, anxiety, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSnowstorm

...grim starkness of snow
sturdy in its sleeted falling 
willing a bleached landscape
a lushness
that chokes the rough field terrain

strides of power
as the fevered wind
spirals In an unexpecte...
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Categories: inflates, environment, january, snow, winter,
Form: Imagism

Living In Purgatory

...Include the date 30/01/2022, contest name, 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 26 Poetry Contest. 

Living in Purgatory

What do you do when you've had enough
You Can't end it all
But you no longer want ...
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Categories: inflates, anger, change, conflict, identity,
Form: Rhyme

The Pride of the Defeated

...come on, open that door to face
what did you leave in the antechamber of your happiness
(I'm talking about the sad, chained lions roaring their nightmares
of the bloodthirsty watering that prod...
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Categories: inflates, pride,
Form: Free verse

The River That Never Lets You Drown

...the river that never lets you drown

oh cry baby save me your tears
oh cry baby tell me your fears 
i will chew them up and spit them out 
so please tell me what it’s all about 

i’m leaving m...
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Categories: inflates, anger, angst, beauty, cry,
Form: Rhyme

Until the Mirror Cracks

...The ego of the atheist,
himself the standard bearer
Where power of a mortal mind,
inflates beyond repair

His facts he weds intensely,
dimension fencing in
What’s not explained, he must profan...
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Categories: inflates, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Macho Man

...The chauvinist, is not "Man"
          is a hilarious gas
          that inflates a meat puppet...!
          Without reason or judgment......
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Categories: inflates, allusion, analogy, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberThe Village On the Water Vi

...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his penchant...
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Categories: inflates, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Village On the Water V

...Showering white light illuminates 
  Bright-Moon Bay;
   In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
 Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
    To invite the same reticen...
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Categories: inflates, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse

Magnificent Frigate Bird

...I am a slender looking sea bird having forked tails,
long hooked bills and a white under belly. 
My genus is marked by sexual dimorphism.
My mate tries to do so many wonderful things so that 
I w...
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Categories: inflates, bird, love, poems,
Form: Personification

Poverty Trap

...They tell them the reality of yesterday is their tomorrow
Save the cries for different versions of sorrow
The world is hash but there is a God who is omnipotent
The world has abundance if they cho...
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Categories: inflates, africa, patriotic, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse

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