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Throw Away Bathwater, Not Baby
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john sensele
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ravages, poems,
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Daddy And No 1 Son
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eric ploscik
| Free verse |
ravages, father, son,
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Save Me
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eric ploscik
| Free verse |
ravages, introspection, memory, sad,
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A Quest, Maniacal
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Gregory R Barden
| Free verse |
ravages, analogy, dark, introspection, metaphor,
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No Reason To Complain
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
ravages, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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DARE ME NOT
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Olufemi Oloye
| ABC |
ravages, butterfly, confidence, courage, crazy,
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Time, The Almighty Landlord
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john sensele
| Free verse |
ravages, poems,
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SMOKER RAVAGES UMA
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MOSES KISIANG'ANI MAKHAKHA
| Light Verse |
ravages, environment, fire, pollution,
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You Are A Mote
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Nina Parmenter
| Rhyme |
ravages, friendship, love,
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Magnificent Path Lit By Moonlight Dreams
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Robert Lindley
| Rhyme |
ravages, appreciation, blessing, creation, dream,
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Death Ushers Us Away
by Laura Leiser
'Tis a mystery when death will come
but come it will, and rue the day
that darkly laden hour and it's reckoning.
And whether unforeseen, or by degrees
in...
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ravages, dark, death, destiny,
Ravenous Rats Capture Our Caverns
by john sensele
Ravenous rats in our lives
Determined to nibble the nipples
Stabbed by knives
Cutting tenuous triples in ripples
Undulating and ululating
In horror
At the humiliating and excruciating
Error and terror
Erstwhile partners...
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ravages, poems,
Facing the Darkness
by Matthew Anish
The face in the mirror has changed
No longer do I see a handsome youth
Instead I see the ravages of age
Hair falling out and turning...
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ravages, courage, dark, death,
Oscar-ku 3 -All Quiet On The Western Front
by Mark Toney
ravages of war
not about heroism. . .
through eyes of schoolboys
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via...
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ravages, film, war,
Again
by Lewis Raynes
Alone in a field, a field full of folks,
Like a blindfolded black burnt out stump,
Standing defiant to the ravages of life,
He beats his...
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ravages, hope, how i feel,
Random acts of kindness
by Vijay Pandit
A mother struggling through daily burdens
Raises her son to be studious and intelligent
Without any funds for his higher education
When strangers raise enough to pay his...
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ravages, humanity, uplifting,
Identity Christ Is
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
Clutching coattails of parents
or their parents before them
Selecting from the smorgasbord
of white wigged forefathers
faces on Rushmore etched in stone
though gallant and poised
just gray palloured...
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ravages, identity,
Provoking Ire
by Abdul Malik
Ah Anger! One of the seven deadly sins
A scourge that ravages the mind of man,
Alas! In an imperfect world only evil wins
A tiny spark consumes...
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ravages, anger,
Sagebrush Saga weed one day
by matthew harris
Akin a tumbleweeds
aimlessly blowing in the wind
umlaut punctuation
courtesy of let herd Mother Nature
nsync with markie mark,
(or other faux nuke heads...
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ravages, 11th grade, 12th grade,
in memoriam
by ej sansam
in memoriam
we build monuments portraying our frail mortality…using bits of glass or stone or wood or bone we mount or stack or connect or carve...
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ravages, memorial,
Clock watching
by Vinny Temples
Time waits for no man.
The saying goes.
Does it not?
I beg to differ.
Yes , we are Governed by it.
Ruled by time.
Our lives are constantly 'on the...
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ravages, anxiety, birth, death,
Unearned Self-Esteem
by David Welch
There is a great epidemic
sweeping across the land,
that convinces foolish minds
they are bold and grand,
convinces them mere existence
makes them legendary,
I’m talking now about the cruse
of...
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ravages, confidence, culture, how i
Dreams
by Mark Setgo
He dreams of the girl with the long, brown hair,
Wakes up and a woman with gray streaks is there.
She dreams of the boy with dark...
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ravages, love,
Boarding Lost Ships Into Vast Unknown Seas
by Robert Lindley
Boarding Lost Ships Into Vast Unknown Seas
Taking lost ships into vast, unknown seas
sadly, with dark black sails set to full mast;
sailing forth despite many urgent...
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ravages, conflict, confusion, death, family,
Felt Facts We UnLearn
by Gerald Dillenbeck
What are some things you learned
along life's way
better before you went to school
as compared to after?
Oh, you mean like love
of cooperative natural-spiritual learning
rather than
mistrusting ego's...
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ravages, caregiving, education, health, humor,
Longing
by Craig Mahler
I am driven by an insatiable hunger,
an engorging appetite of unfulfilled passion.
Parched from wanton desires,
my unquenchable thirst ravages any rational thought.
I am driven by a...
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ravages, desire, emotions, feelings, longing,
Ms K 3
by John Leong
I must have seen your face a thousand times
each time making me yearn even more;
my heart feels the warmth, oh! how sublime
taking my attention from...
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ravages, beauty,
King Midas Golden Touch
by G. Jay
Version 1
Broken hearts and disillusioned dreams. Broken toys and angels without wings.
Weep for the fallen brothers and children without mothers.
Pained tears encompass the...
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I do not know? |
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ravages, horror, loss, pride, soldier,
The Death of Innocence
by Frederic Parker
Raised by wormy flesh from the ravages of war
Broken years of struggle rose from ashes
seeking justice
Singers sung in joyous tones
Artists guiding frustrated youth
to find...
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ravages, bereavement, conflict, culture,
Lighthouse Beacon Beckoning
by John Anderson
In a storm the lighthouse beacon
beckons ship in peril to come closer.
There is no where else to go.
A shining light offers refuge
But fails to...
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Categories:
ravages, ocean, sea,