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Pyroclastic Poems - Poems about Pyroclastic

No More Mister Gneiss Guy

...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories: pyroclastic, relationship,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberWe Live in Denial

...In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,

Torching golden beams to de...
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Categories: pyroclastic, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet



When It Comes To the Travails

...when it comes to the travails
of the human heart
logic is a poor study
as Diogenes' wisdom gathers a lantern
searching in vain
there is a deeper reasoning
among the bats gathered in the belfry
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Categories: pyroclastic, cinderella, destiny, fate, humorous,
Form: Romanticism

Thunder Roars All Around Us

...thunder roars all around us
rain has pillaged the Earth in petrichor
trees bend in the wind 
and retrieve their stature
only to succumb to yet another burst
two pluviophile's sitting on the balc...
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Categories: pyroclastic, devotion, i miss you,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberKrakatoa

...volcanic blast
krakatoa unleashed hell
pyroclastic mass

obliterated
rampant nature’s destruction 
world of deep darkness

a seismic event
magma nightmare no escape
pure devastation...
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Categories: pyroclastic, dark, death, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberUn-Famous Last Words

...Those Tommies send their planes in large amounts
They drop their bombs but all they do is bounce
Like rubber balls their bouncy bombs all missed
Those British pilots must be really…

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Categories: pyroclastic, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

It Is That Look In Your Eyes

...it is that look in your eyes
that commences mine closing
the world disappears
the aroma in your hand 
echoes the feel as your shoulder
guiding, powering the arm
the deliverance is in hand
all ...
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Categories: pyroclastic, i love you, missing
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberFollow the Fire

...Harken! blasts of thunder 
pressurised magma sears 
Pyroclastic hearts collapse
a spanner jams the gears

Distended fiery fissures 
augur unquantified fears
Cataclysms bring rupture 
down pat...
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Categories: pyroclastic, allusion, love, power,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberFig Leaf

...at times the soul gets clenched
in an unspeakable grief
in a demoniac grip, it chokes and wriggles
the pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe
tre...
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Categories: pyroclastic, angst, conflict, depression, lost
Form: Free verse

Am I Free Yet

...The emancipation proclamation of incarceration
 has got me defacing public property, with words like
 don't shoot, or i can't breathe.
     So say can you see by the dawns early blue and 
 red li...
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Categories: pyroclastic, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Summer Heat

...Summer Heat

Morning melts and dribbles
through the blinds, where it rests
in molten puddles on the floor
If you are very still, you can hear
the tap...tap of its fingers as it tries
to seep u...
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Categories: pyroclastic, writing,
Form: Blank verse

Mushroom Soup

...Above our heads that cloud

Mushroom shaped death

With a pyroclastic promise

Of incineration leaving

Nothing but our shadows

That we can only hope

Carries upon it no pain

No suffe...
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Categories: pyroclastic, abuse, corruption, environment, humanity,
Form: Free verse

What I See In the Mirror

...Every morning I stand in front of the bathroom mirror, witness to the decay of my body as time has gained an equal measure of revenge on me. I want to turn away as I wonder how another huge wrinkle c...
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Categories: pyroclastic, age, body, change, how
Form: Verse

From the Midst of Darkness

...It was in my darkest moments that
 I found I wrote my best
Like a volcano my emotions 
would explode from the caldera of my soul
Molten nouns, verbs and adjectives
 poured forth from somewhere d...
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Categories: pyroclastic, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Twisted Reality

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When I step inside your twisted reality ...
this is what my spiritual eyes see,
your soul revealed in it's totality
A scaly skin of self-serving morality ...
you always ask, what's in it...
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Categories: pyroclastic, corruption, dark, hate, metaphor,
Form: Verse

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