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Outlives Poems - Poems about Outlives

Always Losing
...In a café’s hush, two lovers as pawns, at dawn’s closed gate before it dawns. They clutch a paper, creased and thin, their vows on trial for breathing sin. The soldiers come with boots of dust,......

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Categories: outlives, political,
Form: Quatrain
The End of an Era: A Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
...Benjamin Netanyahu, you once stood as a symbol of Israel’s resolve, but power gained through fear and manipulation is a flame that burns its master first. You rose through the ranks on speeche......

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Categories: outlives, conflict, god, history, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Misty clouded heart
...Misty clouds fill my eyes, After you stabbed my heart, With a blade forged in hate. Pain oozes out like blood, But neither red nor caked – Yet it outlives all thought. Contest Name......

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Categories: outlives, betrayal, break up, cry,
Form: Free verse
The Lion of Burkina
...In the dust and drums of a battered land, Rose a flame from the heart of golden sand. Ibrahim Traoré, son of the soil, With hands unbought and feet unsoiled. Not born of palace nor Western mold......

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Categories: outlives, integrity,
Form: Free verse
DO THEY EVER WONDER?
...Do they ever sit and wonder How the clocks weep as they spin How centuries vanish in a flash While children pay for ancestral sin? They fight for names carved into dust For borders drawn in br......

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Categories: outlives, 12th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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
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 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

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