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Provisional Poems - Poems about Provisional

Premium MemberPlagued by Memories

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Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,  
squeezing ever tighter,  
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.  
A scarlet letter has been placed upon my weeping chest;  
without ...
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Categories: provisional, dark, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Punguage

...The modern world is an awe-choice saturation
Of stuffness and people,
A punguage,
An allcode,
The hash of all cyphers, nodes and codices
Ever scribed, wrote and written,
Bitten off, sto...
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Categories: provisional, internet, language, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFinal resting place

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Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence. 

Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end street,
let...
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Categories: provisional, death, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse

I Slap My Wrist

...We wait for news of the sale of our house,
our home. Weeks pass. Unsettled. Unable 
to focus on anything else. All seems
temporary; provisional or not relevant.
I call to mind patients needing pa...
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Categories: provisional, anxiety, god, home, house,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberDear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One

...Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our thoughts,
so I am hau...
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Categories: provisional, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Grow Global, Dear Frankie Ace

...Towards thy very best
I project a saving nest
To save the wordy test
From the earthly pest
And to luck, leave the rest

As pure as a blank page
That gets poets' hearts into cage
The worries a...
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Categories: provisional, africa, appreciation, blessing, career,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBlue

...Are you looking for blue
How are you
Maybe tomorrow
He will remite with sorrow
Don't be mistaken
Blue doesn't taste like bacon
And gray tomorrow
Find it by the red glare
You stare
You start ...
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Categories: provisional, 10th grade, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConcubine Yazmin

...Stimulating her Emperor's savage
Aquisece defers demand of regal constraint
Furtive festivities provide passage
Into fecund gracing gait Autocracy ordained 

Retreat from mastering insatiable ma...
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Categories: provisional, africa, beautiful, first love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Wait

...Sitting in silence
surreptitiously meditating
on everyday turmoil
and confusion that repulses
even the most hardcore
reality driven populists

Thoughts come and go
within the realm of
prepos...
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Categories: provisional, imagination, life, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRejoice Be Still In God's Love- -

...Provisional standards unequivocal bias
I can't believe it's hopeless
In my dreams everything is reality and there's hope it seems
Who am I to deny it
And in just one breath
I am continua...
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Categories: provisional, blessing, devotion, god, love,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberKiss Your Eyes

...Whene'er I think of how time flies
  I tend to tenderly kiss your eyes ...

     Perhaps in lieu of all sad goodbyes
       (I tend to tenderly kiss your eyes)

          A token for the br...
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Categories: provisional, appreciation, kiss, love,
Form: Couplet

Heart of the Western Home

...Gray wolves howl, horned owls summon their young
Echoes tend the starlit night
Junipers nest in crevices of metamorphic rocks
Clover and strife are bedded by the light dew settling

In the west ...
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Categories: provisional, imagery, , western,
Form: Free verse

Kim Koo

...Born in Korea,
Saw Korea being annexed.
Went to China,
Provisional government was made.

Had many dangers of losing life,
Didn't give up his acts.
his existence,
the strongest shield that has...
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Categories: provisional, meaningful, tribute,
Form: Verse

What's Going On - What Is It

...Is it the West Wing is not the Best Wing?
Is it the White House is not the Right House?
Is it the President needs a New Residence?
Is it the Democrats the “New Aristocrats?”
Is it the Different C...
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Categories: provisional, america, change, leadership, people,
Form: Narrative

Human Beings Are Provisional

...Human beings that we are here,
live as provisional creatures,
occupying provisional bodies,
possessing provisional life,	
speaking provisional language,
in equivocal temporal existence.
nothing...
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Categories: provisional, allusion, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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