Lifeless Poems

Life without you

Life Without You

Life without you 
in cold desert sand,
I walk without shadow,
the sun too tired to care.

Alone in the place I used to know,
walls whisper your name in cracks and corners,
but you never answer.
Silence moved in where your voice used to be.

The rooms are getting smaller,
the windows won’t open,
time has folded in on itself 
only
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Categories: lifeless, absence, betrayal, confusion, dream,
Form: Free verse

Bitterness now worshipped as religion

In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers –
lifestreams of Rossiyane and Turks
spilled from their inner oceans.
Their bones ~
lifeless as strings of dead fish,
litter seas once full of life.
The tears of fatherless children fill the Black Sea,
their futures
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Categories: lifeless, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative


Living yet lifeless

As bedtime approaches, an inexplicable sadness settles in, morphing into frustration with the morning light. The weight of getting out of bed feels crushing, but the summer heat eventually forces me up. I put on a brave face for the kids and start my day, though the silence feels suffocating.

The thought of depression creeps in,
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Categories: lifeless, anxiety, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Ballad

Premium Membertheir lifeless fifteen year old daughter

She has not bathed for a week or two
Those pajamas have been on her at least six days
She complains of aches and pains
Moaning she has no friends
Listless, lifeless, and lethargic
Her parents are beyond worried

There is a knock on the door
A friend enters
“Let’s go party!”
Their sloth of a daughter turns into a carnival ride
Leaves twenty minutes
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Categories: lifeless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Puppet

Lifeless puppet
Broken strings
Collecting dust
And other things
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Categories: lifeless, absence, caregiving, environment, lonely,
Form: Concrete


Premium Memberthe lifeless dancer

her dancing was lifeless
mechanical stilted moves
she had no expression
eyes of a plastic mannequin
where was her joy?
did she like dancing?
her mother’s dream
never hers.
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Categories: lifeless, parents,
Form: Free verse

A Tale of Redemption

She was happy,
Smiling and cheerful,
They felt envious of her.

She was hardworking,
Brilliant and brave,
They grew spiteful of her.

She had an attractive charm,
And an innocent soul,
They felt more jealous of her.

She was kind,
Calm and mindful,
Now they grew resentful of her.

Little did she know,
They became monsters,
To poison her soul to death.

Her ANGEL tried to protect her,
Guard and hold
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Categories: lifeless, conflict, death, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse

Lifeless

I'm dead from the inside

And it's starting to show

Cause I'm slowly slipping into my cracks

Slowly fading with my smile



I've been fighting to keep the spark

But the embers are blowing in the wind

Floating away like they wanted to be set free

While all they're doing is setting me free to darkness



I've been this way for a while
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Categories: lifeless, dark, death, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Lifeless

I want to write but what’s the point of writting music with no rhythm. 


- blues
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Categories: lifeless, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Lifeless Child

His dead body was lying on the sand.
Frigid, frigid waves appeared to bite his lips.
His pulse and breath stopped as he left his land.
The motion seemed to shake his fingertips.

His mother's wish was to find a land far from war.
A trip that happens at night on the open sea.
He stumbled like a fish amid the
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Categories: lifeless, analogy, angst, baby, boy,
Form: Sonnet

Lifeless Body

Is it dead or broken?
Two batteries, new...
I'm holding a lifeless body
I want... I need this to end
Mom's gift was never for me
This knot will take time to untie
Unless... I untie him myself.
I know I have the strength
But strength is useless when the will is lacking
Why bother when there's the hourglass
Everything is better with this new
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Categories: lifeless, for her, love,
Form: Free verse

Living Life Through Lifeless Times

We've somehow got to find the will to carry on
The fire to fight will burn within us
Ignited by the sweetness of the dawn
We've traveled for so far and so Long 
The courses unmarked, across the planes of a heart
We only wanted to experience happiness
 Smiles evolve into a long lost form of art
The suns golden
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Categories: lifeless, age, anniversary, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Heart and My Soul

Please let me alone
My heart and my soul
Pollution is everywhere 
The land the sea the food
The mind the body
The heart the soul
The words the behaviour ...
We live with pollution everyday
Boundaryless and invisible
Until to the maximum we fall sick
Until to the limit we leave
There may not be pollution in outer space
Buy there is lifeless
Maybe we have
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Categories: lifeless, body, food, heart, pollution,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Lifeless Bones

A vision or a dream, perchance,
One moment here, and then, entranced,
I flew, by God’s hand, over land
Through clouds to vale below.

And as I made the swift descent,
With bones the vale was littered, rent,
Defeated army lying dead
From battle long ago.

And He said, “Look at these dry bones!
Can these bones live, O Son of Man?”
And as I
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Categories: lifeless, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Lifeless

Cigarette butts pressed into the ashtray.
 Yellowed fingers from nicotine.
Prematurely aged face,
Wrinkled.
Squeezed inside.
No passion.
Without life.
Drown in his own misery ...
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Categories: lifeless, dark, giving,
Form: Free verse

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