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Lidded Poems - Poems about Lidded

Tarnished Gold

...Shayura:
“I dreamt my body was dull gold and rotted, fickle grace abandoned me, yet scattered, I reforged my essence through brilliance and incandescence, allotting my time – I dared to dream again....
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Categories: lidded, beautiful, imagery, inspirational love,
Form: Prose Poetry

A Death I Dream

...An hour past midnight,
She rushed out of the head-storming library,
With a numb body, she drove hard, pretending he no longer mattered.
Still he ignored her, as always.

Till, the silent, desert...
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Categories: lidded, crush, cry, death, deep,
Form: Narrative



Sappho Translations XII

...Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch

In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if th...
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Categories: lidded, beautiful, beauty, girl, happiness,
Form: Free verse

recycle

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if we live our lives, by the 4r rule
this world we just might save...and cool

when it has a triangle then put in
the great big yellow...lidded bin

first recycle paper, bottles and the can
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Categories: lidded, environment,
Form: Couplet

Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: lidded, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Prayers from the Living

...It whips legs, spins minds in a tumbler.
roars with the discarded clothes
of mad clowns.

Bundles of fine bones and twirling feathers
burst apart in a random turmoil,
deer swim toward a gasping...
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Categories: lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGrocery shopping with mum

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It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon.  You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick.  It takes you ten minutes to get into the car.  You ne...
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Categories: lidded, mother son, mothers day,
Form: Prose

Goodbye and good riddance 2023

...Goodbye and good riddance 2023

Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.

The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and 
albeit...
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Categories: lidded, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Hide Out

...Hiding out my soul,
in Carles’ Happy Flamingo,
feeling too small
to be larger than life.

She was a tattooed lamp and
shape-shady,
willing to go down
for the wrong guy.

I bought her a drin...
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Categories: lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse

GOLD AND BLOOD

...GOLD AND BLOOD 

Mantis eyes magnetised her sister’s heart
felt its imprisoned glint of gold
willed it to enlarge into a 
                                     lotus leaf upon a sea


It float...
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Categories: lidded, color, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Seasons

...He smells the passion and perfume,
the mild and manic moments
of a young love.

Here comes a ragged flight of crows;
he squints in the cold sunlight.
Blue shadows glimmer and glint.

He has a...
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Categories: lidded, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.

Sentimentali...
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Categories: lidded, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind

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"Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind 

post apocalypse
the mother 
sought the assistance
of Blue Avians.

when it came to 
eggs stolen from a nest
who better than ...
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Categories: lidded, muse, psychological, symbolism, war,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNight's Abandon

...Heavy lidded
Quiet and still, blurring
Visions with inklings
Of slumber, laboring
To breathe dreams
Through the embrace
Of comforting sheets
In colors of soft light
Lavender and pink
Blushin...
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Categories: lidded, dream, night, silence, sleep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFireside Stories

...I remember a boy child
who thrilled to hear dark
ghost stories

Told around a crackling fire
circle of faces
looking

imaging down
heavy lidded

in toward suggestive
face drawn shadows

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Categories: lidded, fear, feelings, gender, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

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