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Obscures Poems - Poems about Obscures

Premium Member The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly Dally
...Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted bir......

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Categories: obscures, art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Persistence of Memory, Collaboration with Sara Jama
... Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted birds......

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Categories: obscures, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Unbalanced News, Fearful Views
... The headlines scream, a crimson urgent hue, A daily diet, filtered, skewed, untrue. The scales are tipped, the narrative defined By angles chosen, leaving truth behind. A single story ampli......

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Categories: obscures, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stark Bare Trees on Piermont Pier
...Visibility is low, wear a bright vest, Cycle with lights on, caution is best. Stay on the bike path across the Tappan Zee The Hudson's below, but you can't see You can't see the water, th......

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Categories: obscures, dad, death, depression, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Recognition
... Life is the embodiment of the unique existence, the construct of universal elements destiny decides to manifest distinctively with the divine essence in the unparallel trinity of body, mind an......

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Categories: obscures, analogy, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Light That Lights All Lights
... In the dark opaque night, across the sonorous space of solitude, enfolding the languid landscape of existence, bereft of the beguiled spirit in indolent life, my forsaken journey’s pathway m......

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Categories: obscures, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TANKA show tell COLLECTION
...without- the waning sun warms my face shalom cloaks the wells within with a tremor of light- daybreak tinges the nigrescent sky grey- the horizon appears distinct in my mind's eye on ......

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Categories: obscures, poetry,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Final Cut
...Working on compiling this book of grandpa wisdom, Harder than choosing which old poems to include Is cutting off the ongoing output of new ones! But I do want to get it done, And I really don’t......

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Categories: obscures, humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form: Narrative
STREETS OF SOLITUDE
..."Do I still matter?" I lament, in quiet despair, As kindred acquaintances vanish, dissolved in thin air. Solitude clots the cistern, blocks my spirit's flow; Collateral damage obscures the expansi......

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Categories: obscures, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Truths
... "My truths are the shared essence of empathy in the fabric of universal oneness" - Quote by Poet. The obsessive free will ostensibly latent, overpowers......

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Categories: obscures, introspection, perspective,
Form: Verse
Everything and no one
...I gaze at the Highlands’ mountains and try to force myself to feel joy in its entirety. But I can’t. Look how beautifully the sun plays on the rocks like its pressing keys: white for light, bla......

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Categories: obscures, analogy, mountains, travel, war,
Form: Free verse
Strength in the Storm
...The world trembles, society crumbles, Yet winds blow—God’s power humbles. Fire rages, smoke obscures our view, His might stands firm, unwavering and true. Tides ebb and flow, a ceaseless ne......

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Categories: obscures, anxiety, appreciation, bible, fear,
Form: Rhyme
My last stand
...So now I must write For not to, is unfathomable As finally it stands within sight My story welcomes the improbable Engulfed by my phantom I cling hysterically, to the unknown Should this lif......

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Categories: obscures, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echo
... The smoky mists of dawn cover the lands I walk upon as though the Earth rose up on tiptoes to kiss the sky. Though not clouds fluffy and white, this mist obscures all sight and I wa......

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Categories: obscures, death, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Fade to Black
...The waning light obscures my sight As the lonely shadows fall The moonless night prevents my flight As the silence comes to call A sudden chill that chokes my will As I face its cold......

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Categories: obscures, death,
Form: Rhyme

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