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Haversack Hope
...Haversack hopes bring bitter crack Next to nothing is brought back Recalled promises all are lacking Adding nothing but subtracting Public messages are attacking Better dreams start retra......
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Sanford Weir
Categories:
retracting,
allegory, emotions, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Incessant Insect
...OHH!!! You Incessant Insect.. You make it hard to direct my energy, Positively, Peacefully. Why do you keep pestering me? Investigating every inch, Of what you can see. I'm feeling ......
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keith mchugh
Categories:
retracting,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Field of Forgiveness
...The enormity of my kindness has swallowed this callous thing alive No longer will it’s stains of red be left behind For so long, I have proved as docile as the smallest mutt Sealing my nervous gr......
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Ana Wa
Categories:
retracting,
anger, forgiveness, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Suddenly frisson cold with fright
...Suddenly frisson cold with fright... I describe, suddenly feeling scared and tried to summon sense and sensibility after scrambling to stand upright with all my might. Otherwise titled re......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
retracting,
1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Palinode and passage of a poet
...A poet’s journey as goes on An ever-winding road That has many ups and downs known, And as roads take new mode He sees dusk together with dawn To pen a palinode. Comes old age carrying chil......
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Aniruddha Pathak
Categories:
retracting,
change, poetry,
Form:
Other
Conation
...Conation Have you tilted the axis on a new tomorrow Have you changed with intention — the direction of time (The New Room: February, 2024) Round Peg — Square Holes The poetry of ma......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
retracting,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Zen mode
...retracting from crassness in order to protect our soul although aversion manifests we accept detractor’s ordained role the ones who betray love we notice they inwardly die caused by delusion......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
retracting,
forgiveness, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Munch Vampire Draft
...You offer me sanctuary, though I didn't ask I don't understand but I greedily grasp You hold me in comfort no matter my flaws Slowly I settle, start retracting my claws I'm the frightened animal,......
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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
retracting,
art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
A Mackerel Sky
... "A Mackerel Sky" shadows like sun dance across an ocean of tears salt for the stinging walking on clouds with the Fisher King, as if in school in the swim of ......
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Lady Labyrinth
Categories:
retracting,
journey, life, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Dirt - Y Poems Or Pray Dirty
...We all have grovelled before men No matter how proud, how often we won: Few have not begged God for anything, ever! I have grovelled & prayed dirty to EL ELYON: Most High And humanity (we have a ......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
retracting,
bible, blessing, heaven, identity,
Form:
Alliteration
The Victor
...The corpus millennia has crawled down the vale, Retracting the sleek ,unwieldy remnant of glory, Into the memorial vault of the deceased perfection; Romance wi......
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Vidya Pandarinath
Categories:
retracting,
feelings, life,
Form:
Lyric
Fire In My Heart
...Tongues of flame have fallen on me. Deep down in my heart I can feel it. In the epicenter it's concentrated. It's not the pentecost day but I can feel it. From the day I met her, I have known ......
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Kipngeno Robin
Categories:
retracting,
i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Hammer Strikes Nail
...hammer handy, headed clutching, sounding, striking bludgeon, mallet, pinpoint, ......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
retracting,
creation, poetry, words,
Form:
Diamante
Hierophant
...I grip the shifting sands, the drifting dirt. I pull the earth and let fall through these rough fingers. I pull the power of raw nature. I feel the matter of all things, the push and pull as gr......
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Poet Tellaferro
Categories:
retracting,
allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Addiction To Suffering Love
...So, she said, much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual StraightWhiteMale surprise, Sew, I run into your aversion to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion whenever I deeply listen to your dark pas......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
retracting,
analogy, health, integrity, light,
Form:
Political Verse
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