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Ricocheted Poems - Poems about Ricocheted

Spiritual possession
...Through an opal window I saw a cloud, changing colors from blue to orange to red, like a burning fire. I was swept off my feet, floating on a bridge between this world and the next. My body no......

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Categories: ricocheted, fantasy, heaven, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Shadow's silent dance
...I watched as silence danced with shadows, Playing the melody sung by my mind. Its blanket covered the darkness— broken only by a ray of light through a crack in the cave wall. I groped through ......

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Categories: ricocheted, anxiety, dance, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse



The New Americana
...{"We don’t run away, we cannot run away from our demons; the very ones that plague us with our history, reminisce on our backstories and they, Judge. Judge, adjudicate us by it, Convict us of a ......

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Categories: ricocheted, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
The church is a man-made institution
...How dare they take the words from Your mouth and the nails from Your hands and pass them off as from their own flesh and blood. They, who never bled a single drop in the name of others, have cr......

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Categories: ricocheted, anger, discrimination, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
The church is a man made institution - or - I may have religious trauma; can you tell
...How dare they take the words from Your mouth and the nails from Your hands and pass them off as from their own flesh and blood. They, who never bled a single drop in the name of others, have cr......

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Categories: ricocheted, anger, christian, discrimination, jesus,
Form: Free verse



A wind to my youth
...I heard a wind breezing in my ear It took me to a time when I was young I saw an willow tree bending with the wind It took me to a time when thousand tears were shade Every pain felt like a blad......

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Categories: ricocheted, for teens, friendship, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my mother shouted 'do you want a coffee?' just as a bloke was teeing off on the first hole
...bizarre stuff in fact, she'd never visited a golf course before in fact, as i took my daughter to the clubhouse toilet i held the door open for her the contents of the coffee was all over t......

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Categories: ricocheted, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cupid Falls In Love
... He ran around shooting unsuspecting souls with his golden tip arrows and one perfectly bent, Port Orford Cedar bow. Wearing nothing but a diaper and a silly grin he aimed, shut one eye then Wh......

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Categories: ricocheted, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
... We walk the earth as lords of all only judeo-christian types of course We crush the weak and heed no call history is written by the winners We think ourselves the smartest rac......

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Categories: ricocheted, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Self-Solving Rubik's Cube
...We found the smoking gun but we wouldn’t tell a soul The you that I would tell everything to Left me sinning and spinning in my own cave of exulansis, on my own island of impending radical forgi......

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Categories: ricocheted, anxiety, deep, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Just Another Case of the Tail Waggin the Horse
...It's the residue from the gunshot that you aimed right for my heart. See it ricocheted, backfired, meaning another false start… A reissue of rhetoric accost the poet's you adore, so if acceptance......

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Categories: ricocheted, break up, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety rambling reverence regarding “r.” Ronald Rump repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. Rap......

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Categories: ricocheted, 12th grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag. I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine, and came acro......

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Categories: ricocheted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School As a Halloween costume, one year during early grade school, my father got the brilliant idea for his sole son to be dressed with one of a kind getup.......

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Categories: ricocheted, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flightless Birds Trapped In a Gilded Cage
...Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage. . Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage Budding pretty flowers Within the blossoming of youth Of tender sensitive age . Born int......

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Categories: ricocheted, childhood, sad,
Form: Free verse

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