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Periphery Poems - Poems about Periphery

Lost Dreams, New Life

My friends live in the dark periphery of life
       Hopeless guys
They were also born into this world, like us
  Some of them are poor, some of them are rich
  And some of us come from the middle class

We are the same. Everybody. – Something wrong to

Categories: periphery, dream, fate, hope, life,
Form: Free verse

Center

A really wrong place for who must hide,
All the roads leading to center wide…

Where the sociable prays to be dumped,
As he would never be skipped nor jumped…

The opposite of periphery
Of many things their territory:
The consistent and the slippery
Absolute substance and frippery…

Center is the place to meet a king,
But around one they form a ring;
To do

Categories: periphery, analogy, appreciation, education, places,
Form: Rhyme

Seek To Find

Have rendered across terrains in quest, 
Of the art that defines the supreme of creation
In books, in objects and systemised objectification 
Have sought a path, travelled, failed and announced it complex, tiring, rootless and fake. 
Tired, restless, having seeked and being dejected I have rested my case
From the outer orbits I have flung to
I decide

Categories: periphery, deep,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Augenblick

Augenblick
By David J Walker

The edge	 the border
     The  verge	the skirt
The last words heard before 
	The brink 
The perimeter	the periphery
The point	 the bound
          A wink

All found before the final line
That, if crossed 
	All is lost

In the circumference of extremity on
The brink of

Categories: periphery, allegory, death,
Form: Rhyme

The Periphery

Many love the spotlight
And will grab it when they can.
Attention-seeking seems to be
Their life-long master plan.

Others bask in adulation
When it comes their way,
Though they’re just as happy
When they aren’t on display.

But a lot of folks are living,
Or at least from what I see,
An existence in the shadows
Or on the periphery.

As they’re standing on the sidelines
And

Categories: periphery, life, people,
Form: Rhyme

On the Periphery of People

On the periphery of people,
who cackle when you bleed.
So hard understanding them.
Nor do they bother to understand me.

I'm the flitting moth, around them. 
In their thick black gravity.
Half wanting to be a part of (it) 
the other yearns to retreat.

Another year called awkward.
Filled with imperfect fits. 
A one-person dance.
To be included is not on my

Categories: periphery, confusion, people,
Form: Free verse

The Periphery

Let me be
On the periphery
And not take center stage.

I guarantee
It’s best for me,
Especially as I age.

While some feel free,
Without a fee,
With audience to engage,

I disagree.
So let me flee
To where I belong, the page.

Categories: periphery, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Rhyme

The Periphery

I am on the periphery
On the outside looking in
On all of what has come before
On all the things that might have been

I think about those possibilities
The things I might have done
Would I have made different choices
To change any of what has been?

I am on the periphery 
On the outside looking forward
To the seasons of my

Categories: periphery, introspection, lifemay,
Form: Lyric

Me & Periphery

Glassy memory wrestles me with scorn
Envisioning our flame once ever-bright,
Natural in flowing charm, such love reborn
To reflect divine creation each night.
Revelry taunts with dodgy clarity;
I’d abandoned the triumph of fervor
Forgetting such colossal rarity
In my float, this bobbing life preserver.
Caustic regret pulls my soul asunder
As the fool, undeniably aloof,
The walking embodiment of blunder
Isolated with messages as

Categories: periphery, angst, loss, love
Form: Sonnet

Periphery

On a path laid as a snake,
Trodden down a winding wake,
Curls and slithers into night,
To thrones of ever-dimming light;
I hold still and gripped with feeling
In a mist that wraps concealing,
And I glimpse her flicker by
From the corner of my eye.

Heartless granite fissures break
At prayers to God of souls to take,
In their vessels bled to white,
Shells

Categories: periphery, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Verse

Area In the Periphery

gnats, hovering in a 
tear drop, battle dust motes for
room.  a peaceful wind
separates them.  i should be
glad with my personal space.

Categories: periphery, introspection, life, nature, people,
Form: Tanka