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Ledgers Poems - Poems about Ledgers

The Path of the Banker
...In endless rows of ticking screens, Where numbers dance and cold light gleams, He spent his days in hollowed time, His heart untouched, his soul confined. Contracts signed with vacant eyes, Ch......

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Categories: ledgers, change, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse
At the End of the Day
...The voice within, a whisper bruised, Fights the noise the world has used To carve a man from primal bone To cage the beast, to leash the lone. The mind, a mat where wars unfold, In......

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Categories: ledgers, angst, beautiful, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
... We came not for conquest, but for containment— though conquest is what happens when containment itches beneath the skin like sulfur spores in a sealed lung. They had the secret. Not gold, n......

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Categories: ledgers, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul— that polar star searing in the marrow of being. I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march......

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Categories: ledgers, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
The Knower Inhaling
...Be leaved In your redemption As whole Leave is unworthy Of spirit Usual day Ends of spittle held Under nectars perch, hast child as babe Layed beneath wounds crown? Neither beckon of blanket......

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Categories: ledgers, august, betrayal, conflict, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shrinking and Shrinking
...Shrinking down now, With each passing day, Figures fading, Slipping away. Diminishing slowly, Bit by bit they wane, Until just, Numbers remain. Sitting on pages, In ledgers and books, O......

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Categories: ledgers, money, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Hallway
...Hallway Things the upstairs hallway desperately needs to make her feel like a hallway include: jugs of water with a hint of lemon and sarsaparilla (yuk!), heads of asparagus, afros,......

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Categories: ledgers, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member historians doing their best
...high spirited historians have had hissy high-jinx over alternative facts interestingly, instilling intentional intellectual events with integrity intact juxtaposing jurisprudence juggling judgmenta......

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Categories: ledgers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Lost
...Dreaded was the dawn dawn's morning light, every dawn a spotlight on my perpetual night nowhere to hide if not for the shadows between all star gazing not for glitter and beam -- just ......

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Categories: ledgers, christian, humanity, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flamboyant Swashes
...Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson, could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand could impress such lettering upon my cheek. so I severed the crescent-angel of my imagination, dashed my dreamy curs......

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Categories: ledgers, 4th grade, angst, school,
Form: Free verse
Freethinker
... In the still of the night, spectro-gramming the hot utter of air, filtered by laser strainer- it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier a black hole of sin in my pocket, a p......

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Categories: ledgers, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black '47
...Gilgamesh O’Malley left his home in Fermanagh With dreams of steaming plates of Irish stew. He ate his last potato last time Sheamus paid the rent. Since then, there’s not been very much to chew. ......

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Categories: ledgers, allegory, endurance, ireland,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Journey To Zenith
...Written: June 25, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ We evolved toward the Zenith Ringers. While no daylight is expected, I am thrilled. With Bana......

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Categories: ledgers, analogy, anger, bereavement, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Fearing Father
...There in the corner of the living room on a loveseat meant for two now only resides one there he sits, by a warm fireplace its occupant a man a man have I known only as a father and as a man......

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Categories: ledgers, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
We Want An Orchestra
...The organization makes a package With questions and answers forms And videos to be used at Engament parties. My cousin Madder told me He and one of the actors In involved with one movie Said s......

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Categories: ledgers, celebration, creation, film, love,
Form: Ballade

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