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Lancet Poems - Poems about Lancet

Premium MemberThe Bell Tower That Leaned In

...I. The Pastor’s Hand

At dawn’s brittle cusp—
  he climbs, each step
    a nail in time’s coffin
  breath ragged
    a Psalm torn mid-hymn.

The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
  Li...
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Categories: lancet, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberWinter Hiku

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f..r..o..s..t  >gr ps<  cra//ck//ed ground
lancet ~w~~i~~n~~d~  sl        es  solitude 
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s*n*o*w...
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Categories: lancet, nature,
Form: Other



Premium MemberI Go To Church Each Sunday

...I go to church each Sunday,
God warns ‘there’s much to fear,
the world is decomposing,
the final end is near’.

I go to church each Sunday
and taste the wine and bread,
though elsewhere on our...
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Categories: lancet, humanity, society,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTime Traveler

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An immortal time traveler, 
I visit placid planets and shining stars
across the inter-stellar space
in the timeless continuum.
I’ve visited many times in disguise
the unique blue planet,
th...
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Categories: lancet, change, earth, humanity, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwinter lattice

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frost grips frozen ground
lancet winds slice solitude...
snow flakes seam silence...
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Categories: lancet, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku



Font Din Black

...Font Din Black

so u real??? 
Warning! The following choppy, batty, 
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the r...
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Categories: lancet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sickle Moon

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One mystic blue night dead still, 
I’ll steal the silver full moon,
break it into sharp shards,
and stow them in the backyard 
under the shadow of the creepy cloud.

The dark devils will en...
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Categories: lancet, abuse, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Cold Warm Lancet

...Frost's
scruples
left behind
for the after
veil— where the sun unsheathes a morning sword

as the natural winter on grass gleams—
its evidence
of the gift
to still
melt....
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Categories: lancet, beauty, introspection, morning, nature,
Form: Tetractys

Premium MemberTree

...The cascading contours of the verdant mountain slope
hold me, an upstanding cone of jade coniferous pine,
gilded in gold soaked from the swathe of snow,
turned to mirror flakes by the sun of dawn....
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Categories: lancet, christmas, tree,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberQuagmire

...“Fathomless faith gets divine blessings to rise from the entrapping evil marsh” – Quote by Poet

On squalid quicksand you walked obsessed and weary,
gripped by the demons of sin as vicious...
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Categories: lancet, blessing, devotion, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrozen

...“Winter of despair grips the fallow mind,
as lancet wind of desolation slices solace, 
the song of sad bird freezes in silence”- by poet 


In the frame of the reclined verdant bough,
o...
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Categories: lancet, analogy, lost love, winter,
Form: Free verse

A Dark Heart

...Vortice violet.

A shoddy glow of dull light on shadow.

Shine might on ebon canvas.

Dark strikes with heaven's lancet.

Ray by ray day by day grotto, 

With thoughts brooded in effluvium....
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Categories: lancet, analogy, color, dark, day,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet the Essence of Times Change

...Intolerance weaves threads of hatred 
in the fabric of our scary times,
innocent blood is shed in madness, 
fanaticism spreads like wild fire, 
life is splintered by lancet of chaos
into disposa...
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Categories: lancet, analogy, image, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSilence Splits

...ice clasps barren ground 
lancet winds slice solitude … 
frozen silence splits

January 9, 2021
Contest : Hi-Ku (6) Place Promise
Sponsor : Brian Strand...
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Categories: lancet, silence, solitude, winter,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberWhen the Inside Dies-Cl

...A wayside plant nobody cared,
bloomed a forlorn flower in spring.
In glint of petals your face flared,
like motif on butterfly wing.

At the edge of instinct luring,
lancet of desire I’...
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Categories: lancet, desire, feelings, flower,
Form: Lay

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