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Loosened Poems - Poems about Loosened

Premium Member Interlude
... Three dozen or so revelers whoop it up. Prince''s signature smash-hit song, "1999" Is blasting top volume on loud speakers. A rollicking party reaches a fev......

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Categories: loosened, drink, fun, music, people,
Form: Narrative
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 2
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, falling, trees, leaves, leaving, goodbye, rice, moon, moonlight, words. Reverential tears: the falling leaves bid their trees good......

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Categories: loosened, autumn, butterfly, fire, goodbye,
Form: Haiku



Echo in deaf ears
...Lost deep in an echo chamber~ where I talked and my eardrums beat ceaselessly, ricocheting voices of ghosts masked in agony, tiptoeing faintly, their feet blurred by the hallucinations roaming th......

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Categories: loosened, dark, imagery, imagination, night,
Form: Narrative
Family Values
...Sold on a cheapskate cheesing. Cupcaked' by a cheesecake reasoning. Kids, plenty for the Cakewalk. Kids, plenty to play Hopscotch. Kids, plenty of energy goes Non-stop. Disparaging remarks......

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Categories: loosened, absence, first love, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Snowy Day in April
...It was only a sprig of red berries poking through a mantle of snow. But something in their quiet defiance— so small, so sure, so bold— stopped me in rushing mid-stride, as if beauty had broken ......

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Categories: loosened, beauty, color, nature, snow,
Form: Free verse



A child cries in a mirror
...A child's joy was taken at gunpoint in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~ as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears, stirred by music played by demons, loosed like wildfire in a room o......

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Categories: loosened, bird, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Abandon All Grace Here
...I wore my sins like velvet lace, Then set your garden all ablaze. I never once said I was kind-- I only promised not to mind. The chandelier you loved? It fell. I laughed and called it “doing ......

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Categories: loosened, betrayal, fire, gothic,
Form: Quatrain
Runner
...b a n g b a n g! I couldn't believe I just fired some shots there she laid... belly up counting the dust dead as loneliness buried in silence trouble b o l d l y stared st......

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Categories: loosened, death, immigration, loneliness, murder,
Form: Free verse
The law of social thermodynamics
...Someone would rather not speak the truth After weighing the cons and pros They're exquisite egoists Someone dares to bet the causes Inspectors weighing the pros and cons Restrict viewers or ba......

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Categories: loosened, analogy, break up, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wind and the Sun
...The Wind and the Sun, oft mentioned in song, had a quarrel over which one was the most strong. They argued with much heat and bluster; the wind about its strength, the sun about its luster. Ano......

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Categories: loosened, allegory, sun, wind,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Swimmer
... I saw her swim out to where distance and wave height made her disappear from sight. The water still carried the last of summer's warmth. She was where I would like to be, loosened from w......

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Categories: loosened, birth, growth, mystery, sea,
Form: Free verse
END TIMES : ONE
...END TIMES : ONE [Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is ho......

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Categories: loosened, allegory, body, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Downtrodden
...Another man has passed away, Another soul has passed away without casting a silhouette. Another son is growing into another man, Who will one day pass away like all those before him. To the dec......

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Categories: loosened, abuse, anger, class, extended
Form: Free verse
The Call of Venus
... The Call to Venus (A lone voice whispers as a ceremony begins) Candles lit In brazier pit Like a reborn Prospero Music playing As offerings Are lit To summon the universe A......

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Categories: loosened, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar
... Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic microwave background radiation— CMB for short. She's everywhere: fluorescent birdsong of modern offices, hum of corner store ice cream cases. Have ......

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Categories: loosened, age, allusion, culture,
Form: Free verse

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