Leant Poems

Premium MemberGirl On A Bridge - 2025

...She gazes unseeing; a desolate being
Asleep in this wide awake town 
Leant ’gainst the rail of a bridge ’cross the river 
Her gaze and demeanor are down

Considered a knife for taking her life
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Categories: leant, suicide,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberDeath of a Young King

...
Eight of the strongest and bravest of warriors were gathered in all
Each chosen for their strength, each the same in weight and in tall

Their task was not an easy one there to carry home their ...
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Categories: leant, death,
Form: Ballad


To express the pain

...There are some who live by lies
Others tell the truth
Some who will be followers
Others will lead in due time
I have endured pain but it made me stronger in life
I have leant to deal adequately ...
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Categories: leant, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Never take my free or dumb

...

The shadows are moving in my head
Spac img o ut wor ds to make them sound adding the surb
Leant easy with then into
Greekly high V the perfect
X marks the spot
Where sparrows captains run in...
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Categories: leant, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member1856

...During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
T...
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Categories: leant, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative


Accidental Shade

...Listen to me
You are giving your energy 
Your time
Your focus 
To someone
who would already be 
The thing they are
If they ever were 
And this does not
Come without cost
While you spend 
Y...
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Categories: leant, emotions, heartbreak, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRum N Raisin 9 - France Or Bust

...Raisin gave the globe a tap to make it slowly spin
“Rum,” she said, “it’s quite a big wide world we’re living in.”
Rum looked up from lapping milk and wiped some from his face,
“Use your nose to s...
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Categories: leant, adventure, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative

The Sea Cave's Lee

...All words and wonder, wobbling copper green
Foam and guano floating 
In the sea cave’s lee
A flock of gannets raucous on a rocky pile
And the ever-growing echo as the men came by
Climbed...
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Categories: leant, adventure, dream, love, magic,
Form: Free verse

Grassed Dew-Eyed Perspective

...A daisy-faced sky. Of all
Reawoke freshness
The most trustful lit, so leant
In its cheerfulness.

Pale, spotless, impeccable.
Where's its schoolgirl's mime?
Besides, Day, as flushed to greet
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Categories: leant, flower, girl, morning,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Dancing Queen

...My old bones swayed to the old tune
bringing back memories long forgotten.
My spirit rejoiced in exultation
of a ne'er forgotten loving excitation.
For you’re my Dancing Queen.....
 
There you ...
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Categories: leant, dance, love,
Form: Free verse

Her

...It was nearly summer break, 
 We met as she bumped into me. 
She fell and I helped her up,
That was only the beginning.

We spent summer together,
Being with her, it just felt right.
A thought...
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Categories: leant, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse

Mother Nature

...The EARTH was birthed, born of a MOTHER
An AUNT, a sister, a woman, ANOTHER
To be HUMAN, an HONOUR and purpose herein
Protecting this EARTH as we live on HER skin. 

Much  comes to THREATEN this...
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Categories: leant, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Beautific

...A watery throughfare
Paddle-stepped, glassing
All that, of a love-bright sheen
Leant, of we o'er, seen.

A moment acknowledged
Dreamy, in passing
Of swan; who identifies
With such; and nods; ...
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Categories: leant, boat,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMin Min Light - the Unexplained

...On the Outback Downs of Queensland
There is the strangest light
I have seen it first hand
And it sure gave me a fright

I was camped out while Lamb Marking
On the Downs out Corfield way
Hot da...
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Categories: leant, nature,
Form: Ballad

As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years

...As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradica...
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Categories: leant, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse

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