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Retorts Poems - Poems about Retorts

Premium Member Ruby Tuesday
..."It's RUBY TUESDAY night" declared Charlie. Why do yer call it that when it's ruby murray for curry?" retorts Steve. "It's coz we 'ave it on Tuesdays that's why mate" replies Charlie. Steve......

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Categories: retorts, food, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting Older
...They say age is just a number, but its much more than that. Now everything I eat or drink just somehow turns to fat. I used to kick a soccer ball all over sunny fields of green but now I th......

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Categories: retorts, age, old, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Rogue Ravens
...Rabid, renegade ravens, rise. Relishing rancid refuse; repugnant. 'Round rural relics, resounding ruthless retorts. Retrieving realm revelations. Rival reckonings; regimes ruptured. Repent! Rele......

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Categories: retorts, gothic, grave,
Form: Free verse
His Palette Retorts
...Sebastian couldn’t live without saving the walls His paint covering over dire messages scrawled All passersby witnessed each canvas restored Reframing dark alleys with hope everm......

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Categories: retorts, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
... We came not for conquest, but for containment— though conquest is what happens when containment itches beneath the skin like sulfur spores in a sealed lung. They had the secret. Not gold, n......

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Categories: retorts, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears... of diverse and sundry sizes engaged in woebegone wild rumpus as a last hoorah for diversity, equity and inclusion, whose somber bowed heads (hide t......

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Categories: retorts, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Setting the Goal of Tolerance
... "Instead of expressing exasperation, think toleration." ~ by poet I find that I've become impatient with people who ......

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Categories: retorts, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kneading Autumn's Yearning
...[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g] Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air Her wor......

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Categories: retorts, adventure, autumn, desire, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Leftovers
...I’ve always felt like leftovers to you. The one you would only seek out when it most benefited you. When my plans were set, you were always “regretfully” busy with plans you completely dismissed me f......

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Categories: retorts, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inquest
...Start journey quest now where love shows, Stride with calm poise shrewd path of fate; Feel touch fling zest in sublime flow, By your own choice greet lavish state. Learn how to glide as act funds......

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Categories: retorts, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BEING IN OUR MIDST
...September 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14 Key Verse – Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, a......

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Categories: retorts, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Age old war
...Heart and Brain are at war over a sinking ship, "There's too much baggage!" cries Brain. We must let it go or we'll sink and die! The ship drowning in it's rusting pain. "Only these anchors ar......

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Categories: retorts, age, conflict, confusion, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearl Harbor I
...A heedless world implodes beneath the weight and all the West lies smoldering in flames. And nay a soul finds shelter from the hate as dire evil seeks intended aims. The despot waves of fire and ......

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Categories: retorts, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth
...Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth. In the library of destiny, where each heart inscribes its chronicles, I lingered among the scrolls of loss, in the cham......

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Categories: retorts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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,......

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Categories: retorts, anger, cry, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

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