Refrain Poems - Poems about Refrain

Written: August 5, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud *********** River, rippling refrain, rushing, rolling, revived, ribbons of rain rearranging rocks, roots, reflections — reckless, radiant. Rivulets ripple, ringing rhythms resound, reaching, reeling rousing rare range — River....

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Ah King Kane.. you’ve done it again Heavenly humility hums on a simply higher plane.. Angelic ability strums..curious necks studious crane Classical charms forever waver but won’t wistfully wane Professorial textbook tutorials..clever rhapsodies of restrain Classy but never brassy..balletic lullabies of lyrical refrain Dizzying dedication..insane..education.. epiphanies explain how to train Eureka seeker...aurora explorer..yielded iconic pedagogic logic.. Willow wielded wonders sprinkled with sparkle… Heroic champagne...

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PAST refrain I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...

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New morning sun Caressed the hills, the quiet lake New morning sun Declared the star-filled night is done With rays that say, time to awake To the fresh start of this daybreak New morning sun ...

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Her lover's kiss Fell on her cheeks like gentle rain Her lover's kiss Filled her with ecstasy and bliss Thunder pealed, sweet kisses again Heartbeats pound with passion's refrain Her lover's kiss 4-23-2025 ...

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Frosted windows moon white In deepest dark, the chill bites Something takes flight Shadows linger in the eaves of a house Haunted by memories n night Ravens call to the darkest light. Watching the world burn, its eyes gone white Something stirs the slumber of chaos in childhood refrain Turning the keys in the rusted locks Lost Words and Dark Secret...

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into night's refrain flavored sighs stroke mound of lips -- weaving sweet passion...

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Why Can’t We Refrain From: Gossip that hurts us War that kills us Hatred that divides us Revenge that destroys us Prejudice that separates us Selfishness that defines us Greed that impoverishes us Corruption that demeans us Egoism that dominates us Because sin defines us ...

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I shall refrain From voicing my political taste As it varies by occasion A soft mushy oatmeal Breakfast Accompanied by a few Blushing strawberries A street vendor hot dog With relish And a side of sauerkraut Washed down with A finely distilled, purified Arizona Aquifer water A “choke and slide” PB&J On the run To pick up the grandkids Fresh fruit and veggies Of unknown origin A flavorless meat mime Of questionable authenticity Milk,...

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The Empty Page It sat there at my student desk In wait of task to tend. Write a poem, the teacher urged, Your thoughts to paper, penned. Intently, I perused the sheet, Pale white and yet unmarked. It lay there teasing my first move, “Don’t leave me unremarked.” This paper, college ruled and prim, Well-bleached and full of aughts, Stared blankly back at me to...

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Into the gloom by Michael R. Burch Into the gloom, beyond the point of caring, past fascist rows that stare and blanch and cross and watch us always, by the sunset's flaring, we watch our footprints vanish. Sponge-like moss absorbs our heavy bootheels, till the whisper of passing from the earth, our soft refrain, sounds like the hoot owl's eerie...

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Ghostly, my echoes are moans floating in the air like muffled murmurs carried on the wind or rippling waves across a calm sea. If I'd been singing lyrics to a sad melody, I'd hear the haunting words until they'd fade away. Where they end up, I'll never know. How far do echoes go traveling from here to there? Maybe they scatter through...

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Damnations symphony strings of rust & bone A skeletal hand strums… Gears grind, hell’s teeth bite deep A skull's silent sight What secrets does it keep Twisted dreams turned metal N Rust, A haunting melody A world's unjust. Shadows cast Siren cries arise, From remnants of refrain Truth that does not lie in silence Rages in the void Broken fingers, deft, now...

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Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly Fraying my nerves raw with oxidized guitar strings. my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage onto clay vinyl grooves s p i n n i n g endless nights of suffocation. a midnight jazz wail lacerates the void of your absence. notes gnaw through bone marrow ravenous maggots in the corpse of our love. Chords violently crash splintering my fractured vertebrae a car wreck in slow motion. plucking the frayed synapses of my misfiring modal limbic brain. feel...

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From the chimes settling morning— Another time, another change I slept in your clothes yesterday; The break in brass and sleep numbing Red blur— buried color, holding The lasting eyes in my love's grave— Would this dawn, you could only stay, Instead heaps of morning glories Summer beats down, passing morning On from our daydreams in the night. Your ghost on some green there walking, In...

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