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Pyres Poems - Poems about Pyres

The First To Drown
...The Earth isn't dying—no, she's screaming, a sound you've stopped hearing. she cried when girls walked miles for rusted, tainted water, when ancient forests become forgotten, ash–filled pyres, no ......

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Categories: pyres, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Tokens
...A flag draped box on titanium stand Bears all that remains of a noble man A father’s pride, a mother’s grief A widow’s tears without relief A son whose memories begin to fade As the soldier is s......

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Categories: pyres, funeral, loss, soldier,
Form: Rhyme



A Night of '89
...A Night of '89 Footsteps at midnight the knock no one dared answer. Dogs howled in silence. Charred Bodies on the road, eyes still open to the sky. The crows never ask. Posters on the wa......

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Categories: pyres, anger, cry, death, fear,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Fire
... Flames swallow oxygen, duplicitous in their deeds, circumventing steel barriers— steel barriers doubling over. Ashen soot cakes the walls; walls crumble, interlacing with soot. Pyres of......

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Categories: pyres, allusion, dark, fire, imagery,
Form: Other
Premium Member Blight
...Blight,   Growing,   Toxic seeds   Festering deep   Within cracking souls,   Shaded beneath blackthorn,   Watered by innocent's tears,   Blooming like demonic cancer,......

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Categories: pyres, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member Consecration, the Sun Bleeds over Seville
...The beast Alhambra roared a violent psalm Vile conversos horrid moriscos, the heretic herds A spear thrust into our sun’s martyred ribs Held in hateful grips the yellow warblers dripped in......

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Categories: pyres, christian, history, horror, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dance of Death
...It’s nearly two as the Reaper’s clock begins to strike. A thundering clap shakes the trembling ground, as death knolls beckon me into this thick, hazy night. Coming to a clearing, I see ceremonial......

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Categories: pyres, dark, deep, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Igor needs a bigger lab VI
...No prior POTUS has admired Towered pyres for esquires they’d hired Tired not by work hard Now wired the trump card That commands retire or You're Fired!......

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Categories: pyres, anger, bullying, confusion, power,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member SPIRITED GIBBERISH
..."SPIRITED GIBBERISH" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to wha......

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Categories: pyres, allusion, dream, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Spoken Word
Escapism for the readers
... (A lone voice whispers) Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet. Within this clearing, sheltered from Stor......

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Categories: pyres, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spirited Gibberish
..."Spirited Gibberish" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to w......

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Categories: pyres, corruption, god, identity, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
THREAD OF FIRE INSPIRED BY DAN ENACHE
...THREAD OF FIRE You say you are not worthy to be remembered Yet, you are that thread of fire! The one not put out, never extinguished One sparking a million singing pyres Your verses breed inne......

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Categories: pyres, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Funeral Flames, Unseen And Unheard
...In the land where pyres light the skies, Why do you snatch her voice, her cries? In Hindu rites, sons alone hold the flame, But where’s the daughter’s heart in this game? She’s “impure,” they say......

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Categories: pyres, angst, deep, discrimination, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 16 Water and Earth
...Water can be calming until it floods the earth with its purpose It becomes quite unpleasant when the water overextends its intent Is it the moon that is making the water have more intent with its p......

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Categories: pyres, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Final Solution II
...Let murderers subdue the guilt within let not such burdens weigh upon your heart, for bound by oath, your troopers are akin to brothers that share equally in part. ‘Tis fiendish pride that fills ......

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Categories: pyres, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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