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Ricochets Poems - Poems about Ricochets

Premium Member The darkened sky stole my Tears
..."The darkened sky stole my tears," replaced the heat of hurt with jewels, specks of lunar-glazed silver dust, to see me sip rose-wine reveries of midnight, where procrastinated promis......

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Categories: ricochets, dream, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It is to be
...Staring into the stratospheric abyss Cumulus clouds swiftly drift along. As I stand at a dusty precipice, The white-hot heat of the sun beating down, Microscopic gravel crunches beneat......

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Categories: ricochets, dark, emotions, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Memento on the moon
... Leave the ground to fly upward forever a quintillion atoms blasting astray It’s April 20, Crack open an Easter egg be careful not to drop, if a Fabergé Celebrate Apollo 16, NASA’s high poin......

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Categories: ricochets, meaningful, moon, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
Forced Rhymes
...A whiff of my kitchen, a medicinal pill, the side order of rain drools at a windowsill. An utterance precedes a service; the rumble, the window slides itself shut. A bumble bee ricochets off a ......

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Categories: ricochets, anxiety, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Picasso Paradox
... my mind is an abstract vase, adorned with crystal gold lines~  from pixelated pearls homing whimsical wishes                and blue-rose reve......

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Categories: ricochets, i miss you,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Echoes of the Silent Shore
... "L o v e lives in the archaic abyss of an endless ocean, where wind and waves rhyme with the blues in scented stillness" As ec......

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Categories: ricochets, love, romance,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member set for life
... set for life to be a success takes an element of luck a big sledgehammer fortuitous r......

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Categories: ricochets, irony, life, perspective,
Form: Tanka
The Atlantic, I’m Pathetic With Spurring Emotions But So Are You
...{“The salty ocean splashes and smears against my knees and I cannot help but mistake it for the bleeding of my heart they tarnished and flashed open. From the cool air that shafts within the breeze, ......

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Categories: ricochets, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Coming Kiss
...A-rush In a feather ruffling frenzy cooling the flamboyant sunrise muffling the warblers with waffling winds chilling the audience in an ice-like stare your shivery essence ricochets throug......

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Categories: ricochets, december,
Form: Free verse
The Lights
...I am going to see the lights. The glow of the city will make a perfect backdrop to the painting I am envisioning. Far enough away to see the twinkle of headlights and the shine of skyscrapers, but ......

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Categories: ricochets, anger, depression, emotions, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the labyrinth of bone-like thoughts, where the echo of pain ricochets madly
...In the labyrinth of bone-like thoughts, where the echo of pain ricochets madly, I desperately seek a prosthesis for my soul, maimed by life and disappointments. Where is the cosmic workshop that fo......

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Categories: ricochets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
What happened to my sex drive?
...What happened to my sex drive? (sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of -- Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone). Once pronounced libido of mine took kamikaze nose dive, ......

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Categories: ricochets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coherent Chorus of Compassion
...I write my thoughts on paper, let ink of my soul glow, amidst the grief I carry in echoing stillness, for it is through words, I’ve found healing,...

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Categories: ricochets, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome... Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor nothing short of an imminent civil war dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021 oddly enough e......

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Categories: ricochets, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Self-harm, a drug
...The violence is my addiction The pain keeps me lingering It's like my self-diagnosed prescription Every shade of red now I find it triggering. I want to stop it for once and for all But my bod......

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Categories: ricochets, addiction, anxiety, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme

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