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Portend Poems - Poems about Portend

Balance Sheet Karma
...Reconciling life’s ledger hoping it’s in black Every deed and every need accountable in fact Debits fighting credits to balance in the end The jist of life through joy and strife ......

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Categories: portend, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
The Shepherd
...The staff of my Father enjoining the past futurity’s herding a bleating morass The bloodline of orphans forever is linked tattooing the flock with invisible ink The first time the last time whe......

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Categories: portend, father,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member when doves cry
...it's usually early as day starts turning over when the air around is as heavy as seas in your chest feelings are intermixed between despair and hope like the sea when your odds are......

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Categories: portend, animal, death, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
silent sound coloring film
... in my poems, sonada's film depiction your encouraged to lose focus tumble race, give up and quit especially quit and the frame settles with you about where it should be in your life did y......

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Categories: portend, city, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One good fall
...Pride it is said goes before a fall A fall may not be fatal One good fall could be a blessing in disguise For It could signal a new beginning It could portend a second chance It could als......

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Categories: portend, character, confidence, courage, earth
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Strange Driver
...A strange man drives our country lane. Can it be that he's insane? Sick in temperament and brain? I saw him before, and now again. Is something about to go down? He's driving, but what's drivi......

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Categories: portend, extended metaphor, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Second Chance
...Into the magic, bubbling cauldron, I jumped in, my mind, a cacophony of din. I had thrown my life away. So, this is how it would end - into a boiling hell, descend? When I was born, did fate po......

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Categories: portend, death, life, magic, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Christmas Time
... Our family put up a Christmas tree, In the presence of our cute dog, Pouchee; Pouchee thought it’s a real one, Peeing under has been done, All received stinky gifts in the party. Everyone ......

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Categories: portend, christmas,
Form: Limerick
Shadows at Twilight
...I haven’t always dreaded the approach of night; I’d loved it, in fact, for its mysterious ways And how the darkness would seem to swallow the light That manages still to shine its dazzling rays, ......

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Categories: portend, anger, dark, fear, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear of the Unknown
... A crack in the pavement Does it portend a death in the family an untimely end Is it an opening for widow’s weeds or just a spitt......

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Categories: portend, death, fear, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Calling Out
...A rainbow on my shoulder as storm clouds lie ahead I stop and wonder ‘why go on’ the rain beyond my tread Halted from my wandering a stillness reappears The world to spin and trap in place s......

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Categories: portend, journey, life, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tormented Moon
...The.isolated moon in far arc of her epogee, As she searches Earth's surface in cold winter's hemisphere, She bites her tongue of protest of what she will never be, And throws sharp knives of jeal......

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Categories: portend, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn
... The sun, resplendent in its blazing might, Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste, A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched By searing radiation, deathly bright. No sign of life bu......

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Categories: portend, allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member BEST TO RUN AND HIDE
...Inspired by “The Way of Love.” BEST TO RUN AND HIDE Lo-o-o-o-ve Wine in glasses blush ooh-la-la-la-la Friends say, “What’s the rush?” The swirl of first sips See him in my bowl The......

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Categories: portend, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Heffalumps
... Heffalumps are cute; they brighten up rooms Unlike real elephants, which portend gloom Heffalumps smile pretty Some are even witty I’d better stop ~ Donald’s coming back soon… ......

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Categories: portend, animal, imagination, inspiration, satire,
Form: Limerick

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