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Lessening Poems - Poems about Lessening

Rain or Shine
...The walking tour said “Rain or Shine;” We booked it nonetheless, Although in pouring rain, I won’t Be happy, I confess. The sky looks quite foreboding, Plus there’s thunder and we heard On T......

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Categories: lessening, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Black holes stop their pull in fear
... Hate hangs from me like a disintegrating cloak It’s sickly oil tendrils trailing from me It never gives passes Eloquent in its misuse Scratching its way through the sheerness. of the slivers......

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Categories: lessening, poems,
Form: Free verse



Chiming in
...Mental manipulation, Spreading the nation, Broadcast on every station, Here is a free phone, Just for the occasion. It's an invasion, It's their way in, Getting under your skin. ......

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Categories: lessening, abuse, addiction, america, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
the unforgiven
...The Unforgiven  In a town where even the law rests and thieves do not break out of prison Oh, this bonny night washing my feet in the pool in the square where fish die for lack of oxygen This......

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Categories: lessening, absence, abuse, age, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Standing
... I fell and I stood up, I am still standing I faced many crisis and traumatic things, I fought it all and I am still standing I changed directions many times I re-located quickly and often as ......

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Categories: lessening, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Underneath
...Sometimes i wish That i could crawl out of my skin Bare all my sins Flay myself open And watch as i bleed Maybe then i might feel Some sense of release A lessening of the weight That suffoca......

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Categories: lessening, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs
...Freedom with far Freedom with Order with less Order with far less emphasis on less emphasis emphasis on less emphasis Order - on Order - ......

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Categories: lessening, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Zen mode
...warm embrace of love does not calculate for it frolics about carefree in bubbling mirth ever joyous, blissful, vibrant bliss effervescence exuding uninhibitedly its sublime elixirous radiance e......

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Categories: lessening, love, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the purpose of it all
...the beginning of, middle and end in endless renewal like a pulse regenerating itself forever stands apart from the dream within which our ego mind dwells when boundaries blur, nodes st......

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Categories: lessening, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Senior Adjustments
...Suffocation, is that the word For this lessening strength within? This discomfort needing fresh air Gently stirring, encouraging How can I pack treasures to move? "Stuff" to go, and then, begin.......

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Categories: lessening, age, change, feelings, moving
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Similes and Smiles
... Reflected in the waters of yesterday, Considering all that has come and gone, Affections for those who won’t betray… Whisper through me like a heavy yawn. Together with the trem......

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Categories: lessening, appreciation, imagery, metaphor, muse,
Form: Rhyme
A Night Like No Other
...A night like no other... Oh, for the holy night alone in a town where even the law rests, and thieves do not break out of prison Oh, this bonny night washing my feet in the pool in the square w......

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Categories: lessening, anger, angst, aubade, august,
Form: Free verse
Miscarriage In May
...A poem, I just wrote now. To my son, Samuel Khairuddin Mrs. Khairuddin, you are pregnant! Those joyous words, Made my dreams come true, Wanting this since I was 6 years old, A born Mother,......

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Categories: lessening, baby, bereavement, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doubt and Belief
...Dark and dismal Offering the spirit Unending fear Broken hearts, fading Trust – D O U B T Brilliant and bold Elevating hope Lessening hurt Illuminating grace Endless peace, prayer Forever......

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Categories: lessening, faith, fear,
Form: Acrostic
Just Thinking
...Just thinking of places and times I had laid my heavy head So far removed from silk sheets And a warm comfortable bed Just thinking, on dreams i had In raging storms kaleidoscope like Behin......

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Categories: lessening, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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