Long Ill used Poems
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A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
A MINISTER RETIRES :
SOLILOQUY
I arise as infant Phoenix
from Akasha ashes
counterparts frozen
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration
Source Light breathes into
fontanelle slowly sleepily
Sekmet my...
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Categories:
ill used, change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Poet Cries Real Tears
a poet cries real tears
I am speaking to you
from inside my head
I shake it and out tumbles
words in scrabble pieces
shiny lacquered squares
to build a thought
that will express the what
and where, of my yards of...
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Categories:
ill used, change,
Form:
Free verse
Hunger Strike
Target for use by the Cruelly Ill-Used
Morally targetting his torturers,
Nobly tending a body and mind bruised
By the meanest sadistic adventurers.
All the time, a choice handgum of prisoners of conscience,
Nearly in the mold of a...
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Categories:
ill used, absence, abuse, anti bullying, character, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
The Love of Mothers
The Love of Mothers
Nerve slicing mercury inhabiting breast milk, slashing
the suckling babe, the one who will not walk until she is four
and endure unexplainable pain. Gold piles up, red tag special
on weapons...
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Categories:
ill used, nature
Form:
Narrative
Shadow of Your Wings a Petitionary of Praise
a delightful
sweetist singer
after the Lord's
heart
with perspectives
under
...
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Categories:
ill used, christian, poetry, prayer,
Form:
Verse
Woodwinds
" (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the
the one less traveled by and that has made
...
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Categories:
ill used, life, music, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Red, White And Black Blues
The white man stole their land
now the red man has the blues
the white man sold their families
and the black man's still ill-used
the white man shot the American buffalo
now the red man sings the blues
the white...
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Categories:
ill used, america, animal, death, how i feel, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection
Oh, innocence of trust unchecked
How stare you back at me?
T’was you who fled this heart laid bare
Oh, barren calamity
Empty now the heart ill used
So used to gentle dreams
No more to see the flower’s bloom
No song...
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Categories:
ill used, betrayal,
Form:
Quatrain
Surface Pollution
The surface of the water is filled with pollution, It's sad to see such a precious thing so ill used.
Plastic bags and bottles pollute what should be clean,
Turmoil for animals who live beneath...
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Categories:
ill used, passion, pollution, water,
Form:
Rhyme
BLANKETY-BLANK VERSE
Alas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse
To stab the darkness with an ill-used...
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Categories:
ill used, humor, irony, muse, words, writing,
Form:
Verse
Stains From Muddied Yesterdays
There's a pile of sullied threads
from our muddied yesterdays
of a life we stripped bare
to be thrown into the wash
a hoard of soiled toggery
too foul to be cleansed
I tried to bury all of it
but the...
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Categories:
ill used, relationship,
Form:
Free verse