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Levelled Poems - Poems about Levelled

My Friend's Wedding

...Saturday is native to weddings and ceremonies
Of anxieties – patterned in coarse sputum of rain.
My friend Bonsy and his wife filled the calendar
With the uselessness of time, levelled against was...
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Categories: levelled, celebration, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse

Lullaby of 2125

...Once there lived a wizard who practiced thumbcraft,
who conjured with swipes and spells from his draft.
He began just at two with a clever old trick,
skipping ads on YouTube with a finger click.
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Categories: levelled, fantasy, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Lost Myristica swamps

..."What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror refection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi
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Categories: levelled, nature,
Form: Jueju

All That Remains Of Yesterdays Wishes

...Old flame memories, and game show repeats,
viewed through tobacco, it's smoke fills the room,
loneliness, only, stays glued to defeat,
blue-bottles, can't help, but choke on the gloom.

Dreams l...
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Categories: levelled, dark, day, dream, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet

Who are we at our core

..."To begin with a healthy brain, before decay to mar this refrain”                              
                                                                  *The Poet*


A simple man, with s...
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Categories: levelled, simple,
Form: Rhyme



Black October

...The Paragliders like ravenous vultures flew
to southern Israel to predate on soft targets.
Like swarms of bees, they snuck, raped, maimed, shot, burnt and slew.
Terror did every man's fragile cons...
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Categories: levelled, evil, october, war,
Form: Rhyme

Acorns

...When we kill a tree
Does a forest sigh
Rustle with grief that
One of them should die.
Is there apprehension,
Do the trees even hear,
The clinking clanking sound
As the felling gang draws near....
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Categories: levelled, earth, environment, philosophy, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEither Way

...The morning is fair and without compare;
desire to escape commotion in motion.
With apologies to Frost, but I’m lost
in sylvan idyll; my thoughts to distil.
I should have turned left or maybe the...
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Categories: levelled, analogy, nature, parody, satire,
Form: Sonnet

Family History

...I suppose everybody, at a certain age,
Wishes they talked to parents more,
Wished they learnt a few details of
The many generations  gone before.
Oh I traced the family tree back
Over two hundre...
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Categories: levelled, family, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDay the Romans Levelled the City

...The column of Romans came from the east
They mowed down our stone structures
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
We were all intimidated as the amphitheater fell
This was totally unexpected and frightening....
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Categories: levelled, history,
Form: Narrative

Mariupol

...The city and its steel plant are now "completely liberated" after 531 Ukrainian troops left the site, the Russian defence ministry said.

Completely {
	levelled, depopulated, desolated,
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Categories: levelled, violence,
Form: Free verse

Ups and Downs

...Though we have our ups and downs
On this path of life
Through happiness and sadness,
Harmony and strife
We come good from path we stood 
On a levelled plane
With built in feelings for all deali...
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Categories: levelled, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMagic Aussie Carrots

...A farmer met a wizard who was wearing odd regalia
The wizard gave him seed of magic carrots from Australia
You sow them just like normal but they all grow upside down
The leaves will grow like roo...
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Categories: levelled, farm, humorous, magic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCulpable

...When DNA shunted a tad to the right
And the very first man got his very first sight
Of his chimpanzee brothers, less upright, less tall 
With rocks preselected he bludgeoned them all

Man’s earl...
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Categories: levelled, evil,
Form: Rhyme

I'Ll Die For You

...when hunger howls & roars like lion
throwing rocks and pebbles at sun-drenched back
flipping its razor like fangs on helpless tummies
and striking with a devouring aplomb on defenceless intestines...
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Categories: levelled, abuse, confidence, home, humanity,
Form: Free verse

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