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Outlives Poems - Poems about Outlives

The Cruelty and Consequences of Hate
...In a town where the whispers grew sharp as a blade.. Where anger took root in the words people made. A boy flung a stone made of slander and spite.. And a girl threw it back in the dead of the nig......

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Categories: outlives, anger, bullying, evil, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Art Poetry
...Words dance across the canvas of my mind, Brushstrokes of meaning, colors of sound. In poetry's rhythm, art is defined— Where image and language are forever bound. The painter speaks in texture......

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Categories: outlives, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



A Love Hung Quiet
...The hill was bare, the sky undone, The veil was torn without a sound. Red streaked the wood, the earth stood still, And love hung quiet, pierced and crowned. But dawn returned in linen white, A ......

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Categories: outlives, devotion, god, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......

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Categories: outlives, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Thought of the day
...A tree outlives the leaves that adorn it Adapting thus to change without complaint It thrives without any fear or desire Stoic, standing erect, resembling a saint......

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Categories: outlives, spiritual, tree,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member What Remains, When Love Outlives the Living
... Under the cadence of footsteps on worn cobblestones, At the café where steaming cups held time hostage, Eyes met and lingered, a glance stretched into an eternity. A young American, as if scul......

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Categories: outlives, culture, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Art N Poetry
...Words dance across the canvas of my mind, Brushstrokes of meaning, colors of sound. In poetry's rhythm, art is defined Where image and language are forever bound. The painter speaks in textur......

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Categories: outlives, appreciation, art, community, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Roots of Time
... Stone cracks itself when the immovable is broken by pain. Stone trees grow in stone locked caves. All that is not stone wanders rootless, yet they abide in that same furnace of time th......

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Categories: outlives, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Marionette
... A little Soul that loves me As I love her. I made her so. Our solitude, like snow. That silencer of trees - whose Leaves of thought fall softly. Though born of trees, she never falls Fo......

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Categories: outlives, beauty, best friend, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars
...As the young lovers, under the celestial lights, Watch together the stars in the dark sky nights, The twinkling stars brighten the dreaming eyes, The twinkling glow of love makes the hearts unite.......

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Categories: outlives, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unformed Until the End
...Woodland dells, giant trees Swallows swoop, defying breeze Jump to sailors and tattoos What part of time is a ruse The fact a tree, outlives a man But cannot hope or devise a plan Has no say on......

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Categories: outlives, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Old
...The time has arrived so soon, When I am eighty-year-old, When I am bald with shining head, When I have nice smile with new dentures, When I have new hearing aide and new pair of glasses, Will yo......

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Categories: outlives, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Look Stupid
...I stare at my sixty-eight-year-old grandmother in disbelief. You got a parrot, Grandma? She nods, pleased. Do you have any idea how long a parrot lives? I hope he outlives me, she says. I think ......

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Categories: outlives, animal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Precepts of the Aegis-Holder
... "Precepts of the Aegis-Holder" no gorgons here but 3 of one, yes? shields raise back the dead to life and phoenix from the ashes spreads its burning wings feat......

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Categories: outlives, family, love, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Do It Again, Please
... Roll back the joy of golden, painted years. Hold me in that rapture, of joyful cascading tears. Place the engagement ring on my soft hand. Allow me to hear the notes of passion’s ban......

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Categories: outlives, engagement, lost love, relationship,
Form: Couplet

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