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Restive Poems - Poems about Restive

Premium MemberHarmony In The Bleeding World

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The lifeless bullets bound as captive predator 
in the restive barrels of the cold guns of war,
chilling cold as the brutal shadow of death, 
waiting camouflaged in the dark,
wake up at the s...
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Categories: restive, war,
Form: Free verse

We would have built

...A green gust dancing 
amidst the leaves of ferns 

In the obscure dawn, 
the birds are all restive. 

Had we all been 
a swarm of unleashed birds 

For sure we would have built 
a Mediterra...
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Categories: restive, bird, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse



My mercurial mind

...Never at rest, ever restive
like shifting sands of the desert,
my mind is
a labyrinth of quagmires and booby traps,
you step on it
and you’ll either be sucked in	
or blown to smithereens…
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Categories: restive, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Biscuits

...What‘s better than a biscuit?

Hard to debunk 

Treasure trunk funk 

Should you let

It get wetter

Would you dare risk it?


The trick a quick dunk

Or could flunk..flick..kerplunk.....
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Categories: restive, food, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLyric Of Lavender Lagoon

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Aviating aspirations      
of effervescent incandescence 
spread psychic plasma
of primal spectrum, 
painting the exuberance 
of indigo emotions 
on the sullen sky,      
fantasy configure...
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Categories: restive, analogy, imagery, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDormant Desire

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Expansive aspiration 
of effervescent incandescence 
disperses psychic plasma
of primal spectrum, 
painting panorama of passion 
on the silken sky,
the configured
fascinating facsimile
of...
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Categories: restive, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Last Lap

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The Last Lap

Ignorance and fire
now common partners
lying on a restive bed

The night now owns the day
as the day now basks 
in opaque blackness

The burnt-out embers 
scattered to ...
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Categories: restive, desire, hope,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLIGHT THAT LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS

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Light* that lights all lights continues to glow 
triumphant midst woe toward jubilant today 'til tomorrow.

Blest light wakes soul up 
perking with God's prop.

Divine light wafts ...
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Categories: restive, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAnywhere But Here

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Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical whispers of wind 
are my wondrous wicket  
restive ...
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Categories: restive, analogy, character, identity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJews Harp - A Reflection On Turmoil

...I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings...
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Categories: restive, inspirational, introspection, life, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR INSTRUCTING US ABOUT WHAT HE HATES

...July 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 6-9

Key Verse – Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying t...
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Categories: restive, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberDisciplined Dog-line

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In restive response to the nature’s call,
in the disciplined dog-line they all fall.
         Not far is the place to pee,
         tree never seems to be free.
Leakage curbed canine bladders...
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Categories: restive, funny,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMudlarking The Memory

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Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice 
of longing
                luminescent, 
the veering valley 
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the caden...
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Categories: restive, analogy, inspirational, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpring Sonnet

...Lipogram Sonnet 4-12-24
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Spring Sonnet

Spring bursts out from winter’s silent cocoon,
Fluttering luminescence on new wings,
Freed up from the ...
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Categories: restive, spring,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberBlack Noon

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Black Noon
The restive wind 
weds the surging waves
merging spirits and souls
leching away meekness
spiced with weakness
as the way is paved 
for the destruction 
that rummages at noo...
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Categories: restive, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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