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Retorts Poems - Poems about Retorts

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A Fractured Reflection
... In the mirror's cold embrace, a war of words ignite, One soul fractured, battling self, beneath the pale moonlight. The darkness snarls, a serpent's tongue, with venom in its hiss, "You're weak,......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, anger, cry, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Spontaneity
... Written: February 23, 2024 Rumi Quote: “There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Line of i......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, analogy, appreciation, light,
Form: Rhyme
Spectral Dance of Twilight
...In the crepuscular embrace, where day and night entwine, Dances a spectral ballet, in a twilight so divine. Shadows caress the amber light, where contrasts boldly play, An ephemeral bridge suspend......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Why Programmers As Single As Told By the Programs Themselves
...In the cages at the zoo they crowded around each other A million milling from father to brother All speaking in a babel a million languages From clicks and keyboard clacks to switches and bandage......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, computer, humor, language, love,
Form: Rhyme
Phoenix
...The phoenix rises from the ashes after it was scorched by lower flames It soared higher despite the smoke but all's fair inside the game Everyone is played within the game but we must be a good......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silence and Shouts
...Silence and Shouts I listen to him breathing. If it’s labored, I ask, “Are you okay?” And from over the rings of walls of silence he has built around himself, He implores, “You hear so poorly,......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, feelings, god, happiness, health,
Form: Narrative
Labyrinth of Sighs
...Labyrinth of Sighs Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs More platitudes with attitudes that never question why A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die An emboldened range ......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, life,
Form: Rhyme
Simulations and Symphonies
...Simulations and Symphonies Discussing life inside a simulation Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation Confronting life with positive configurations An enchanting wife that doesn’t need i......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form: Rhyme
Risque Triplets
... Clover superlative lovers, sprung via same stem Umbrella immunity protects sprites supple Filter purity lacy leaf shade kindly dapples them Desiree samples pitc......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, allusion, animal, april, art,
Form: Rhyme
Virtual Trophies Wife For I
...Virtual trophies (wife for I)... offered, husbanded, and collected when winning solitaire Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline watching the computer generated cards automatically r......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Much News
...Too much news is too much transparency A 24-hour cycle of news is more than I need I want only a headline telling what took place Do not give me all the gory details, indeed! I do n......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bardliner Notes
...Don’t do the rhyme if you ain’t got the time. Nothing is worse than a half-finished verse. If you want to complete her, you’ll need a good meter. (‘Tis said that the bard brought the girls to the ......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, silly, writing,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Temporal Dilettante Journalist
...Temporal Dilettante Journalist David J Walker no-thing need not name the nameless breaks the morning in disguise shakes the shame and wakes the shameless quench tormented turbid eyes the......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, allegory, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prince Poet, the Charming
...Oh, the gullible women threw themselves at his intellectual poetry and prose. To him, ah, he was as delightful as the scent of a fragrant spring rose. To their delicate dismay, they found h......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, fantasy, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Tourette Syndrome - the Fruits
...No where is where it is – can't be found, so there No where is where it goes just sits and waits for your despair Scratching your inner most private thoughts, with words of hunger and sadistic reto......Read the rest...
Categories: retorts, anxiety, conflict, cry, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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