Lay Waste To Poems

Premium MemberRapacious Lies Trimeric

...Knew the truth you were anxious to cover,
your dastardly lurking’s not lost on me;
Trying to hide from my x-ray vision,
it’s such a pity how you wrote me off;

Your dastardly lurking’s not lost ...
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Categories: lay waste to, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other

Premium MemberPinwheels On Pumpkins

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Lollipops for good little boys and girls
melt like tricks onto rotting teeth;
Full of intense flavor and colored swirls;

Nightmares freeze into all that spun sugar,
cotton candy pinwheels on ...
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Categories: lay waste to, candy, child, emotions, halloween,
Form: Rhyme


LONELINESS, LONELY AND MUSIC

...LONELINESS, LONELY AND MUSIC 

The pianissimo makes the violins softly cry, 
the cellos sympathize with the sadness of the theme Barber’s Platoon 
the sublime adagio quells the overwhelmed heart
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Categories: lay waste to, age, growth, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPlutonium Throat

...The roaches keep launching attacks
then scurrying back into Satan's dirty crack
covering their backs with the children of Gaza.

Launch then hide- launch then hide
when they lose ground, 
they ...
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Categories: lay waste to, heaven, war,
Form: Free verse

our world

...Our World

This is not a day for clear sky and sun
This is not a day for jubilant spring
This is not a day for summer drizzle 
This is not a day for crisp snow
This is not a starlit night
This...
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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme


Labyrinth

...A long night without sleep,
Dreams lay waste to silence,
Scenes empty, moments lonely,
Thoughts wishful, action passive.

Shackles of redundancy,
A cycle, round and round,
A blast from the pas...
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Categories: lay waste to, dream,
Form: Free verse

Palestine FAL-ES-TEEN

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The bombs wailed out
In terror they scream
Her fears come to life
He was only fourteen

A young boy whose life is gone
A mourning family whose life has changed
A murderous government support...
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Categories: lay waste to, abuse, arabic, culture, death,
Form: I do not know?

Shine On Me

...Shine on me 
Showcase me 
Embrace me 
Encase me 
Risk your life to save me
Envelop me 
Face-to-face me
Fix your gaze on me
Examine me 
Taste every bite of me 
Skin-on-skin with me 
Lay was...
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Categories: lay waste to, love, passion, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse

Black Cats

...See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all built of littl...
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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: Free verse

When the Engines Feast Ii

...Kings of lizards 
The great multi-horned beast
A rise in the east, 
The prodigal son 
Coming in the Fire 
Of mythic Agamemnon! 

As the beast lay waste to Dominion…
Divinities promise oblivio...
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Categories: lay waste to, allegory, allusion, america, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWasteria

...Violaceous lulling bell
 Enchantment be thou spell
Prodigious tortile entwine
Weathered be thy vine

Solstice utmost fair
Lay waste to arctic air
Embedded mossy root
Colossal venue afoot

K...
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Categories: lay waste to, flower, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Crimson and Cobalt

...strobe into the secret night
the scene of our sacred crime
not just any old crime

I confess to you but 
I cry most insidious in design 
a crime worthy of the divine 

what can such a crime b...
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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Sisyphean

...Sisyphean
By Michelle Morris
13/03/2022

Sisyphean seems the task
To gather consensus from mankind
Scattered around the earth
Peace flailing ever blindly

Mere mortals are we
But destructio...
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Categories: lay waste to, faith, hope, inspiration, integrity,
Form: Rhyme

Posthuman

...What tis' the work of man 
to leave a testament 
to his grand plans, 
the usurper of the throne 
eternal is, man!

The after image 
of a lost god left 
a cold planet 
our former mother, 

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Categories: lay waste to, abortion, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf I Could Have Held You

...If I could have held you 
 lay waste to these tricky words
instead of a tearful smile 
it would have been more honest; 

Lay waste to these tricky words, 
there would be no way to top that; 
I...
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Categories: lay waste to, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Pantoum

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