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Laying Claim Poems - Poems about Laying Claim

Premium Member The Song I Sing
...The pages written in my book Are pages made of second looks They tell the days of happy sad And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad The game is played and often lost By those who fail to count the co......

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Categories: laying claim, angst, crush, dream, inspirational
Form: Ballad
Laying Claim
...The trappings of a Poet … or being a Poet They’re each something different remote and distinct The tweed jacket wood paneled image deceiver Lays claim to what only —enlightenment inks ......

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Categories: laying claim, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Return To Willerton
...The cemetery was still but not silent as Ben Braxton leaned against the rough trunk of an ancient oak. It stood apart from the mourners, yet close enough that he could clearly see and hear them. His......

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Categories: laying claim, death of a friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fencing the Meadow
...Someone has fenced in a portion of the meadow Laying claim to what Mother Nature has proscribed, Some folks bring displeasure with absurd bravado. Is he suggesting that part of the m......

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Categories: laying claim, freedom, how i feel,
Form: Terza Rima
Grief
...i’ve seen among the shadows in the corner of my eye a foreboding melancholy ever present pure and nigh upon forseen inception came the beast without respect laying claim to all emotions pour......

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Categories: laying claim, dark, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Whirling Wheels
...Listen! Here come the horses, War machines, a myriad of forces! 'Whitewash', the white horse, is first, Those deceptive words rehearsed. Peace as a pretense to conquer, Glossy until he grows s......

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Categories: laying claim, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Love Letter From the Soul Xxxiv
...Soul, "Even the mind fades with time . There’s no escaping it. One has to make the most of it (the mind) while they still have time and some youth left. What stays beautiful is the ......

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Categories: laying claim, love,
Form: Romanticism
The Mojo Within--Blues Poem 13
...The Blues fills my memory, all emptiness gone Its Harp laying claim, my soul to belong Little Walter cries out ‘that same old somethin’ again Jimmy Reed to remind us —of the mojo within ......

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Categories: laying claim, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Nature of Man
...The ocean now looks the rain in the eye Swelling with ego and pride Humming and Hissing flows with the tide Wrestling the ships and the boats And laying claim to some of our lands. Even Adagun a......

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Categories: laying claim, life, nature, political, satire,
Form: Personification
I Walk On
...Last hints of light lay down gasping in the night reaching for a touch a comfort loved so much I walk on where darkness plays her song fearing what went wrong too fast and way too str......

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Categories: laying claim, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Destroying the Gift
...Money, wrapping paper of disowned creation Destroying the gift, —laying claim to the box (Jamestown New York: May, 2011)......

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Categories: laying claim, money,
Form: Free verse
A Dog Named Donald
...A pouting pooch whose boisterous barks are uttered in superlatives laying claim to unwarranted importance due to an overbearing pride. Strip him of his diamond studded collar, not to me......

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Categories: laying claim, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rugged Path
...Traveler's Guide to the Rugged Path Millions tread the rugged path as nomads groping in a murky mist eyes and hands aloft; prayerful…hopeful. Few chance upon a wondrous tree, bearing......

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Categories: laying claim, allegory, change, christian, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Master's Call
...I am listening for the Master's call that will signal that grest day when the Shepherd comes from heaven to call His flock away. When this sinful world is ended and temptations all are gone I......

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Categories: laying claim, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Night Terror.
...Night Terror. You need no introduction. Into my slumber, With skulking cats eyes. Now, You build a charnel house. Bricks and mortor, sinister. Laying claim to my dreams. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~......

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Categories: laying claim, sad
Form: Personification

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