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Rifts Poems - Poems about Rifts

Ghost of Black Forest
...Deep in Black Forest lives a good-natured ghost whose eyes are like Nebula a blurry blue He Slithers along steeply falling terrain where ravine-like dark valley drops deadly low Every Lun......

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Categories: rifts, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sadness Befriends Me
... sadness befriends me for life after a friend quits all feelings for me......

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Categories: rifts, deep, emotions, family, feelings,
Form: Monoku



To Love When
...Love is alike a whisper among the deaf and a light among the blind. Many have claimed to understand it and many have claim to be apart of it but alike religion, they all seem to fall short of scriptu......

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Categories: rifts, beautiful, bereavement, caregiving, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ballad of Circumlocution
...In realms where thought and tempests meet where shifting sands outpace the feet a creature stirs with cunning guise Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies its words like desert viper’s sting t......

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Categories: rifts, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Poet's Soul
...Who's this, that makes a poet's soul, and motivates the heart? Who exposes one's true yearnings. in depths that's set apart. What stirs the scribal cauldron's lust that moves the pen to write?......

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Categories: rifts, joy, longing, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Clash of Titans, A Bond of Respect
...Across the aisle, a chasm loomed, Reagan smiled, O’Neill boomed. The Gipper’s charm, the Speaker’s grit— Two titans clashed but never quit. Ideals at war—left against right, Taxe......

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Categories: rifts, confidence, courage, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Coherent Whole
...You've read it correctly, that's what the directions said directly but it's not some innate random homogeneous gift that encourages and displays these internal poetic rifts, we are somehow ......

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Categories: rifts, allusion, poetry, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
...I walk o u t... I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer dissects my essence-fossil Passion a seismic rupture betwee......

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Categories: rifts, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lonely Invitations
...Rifts bred of lonely invitations Tastes of iron and limitations ringing down the boulevard Soldiers drop Fickle relationships feel alive Turmoil predestined for failure An injured excitement P......

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Categories: rifts, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The space between stars is not empty
... The space between stars contains countless hidden gems A locked tight treasure trove, opened up by our lens Prisms split apart light spectra, and dopplers c......

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Categories: rifts, perspective, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Underground Fun Fun
...gossip in the velvet declares my surrender to strip club excess, where fantasies unfold a g-string serenata that stains the linger a slow-mo ride through motels of the bold the DJ's drumbeat......

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Categories: rifts, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Work issues
...Some people take their jobs too seriously and cause rifts between team......

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Categories: rifts, work,
Form: Senryu
Christmas time
...Christmas comes but once a year A time of festive joy and cheer. It is the season of goodwill To have a break, relax and chill. A time for sending cards and gifts A time for healing family rif......

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Categories: rifts, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weedy Eschatology
...The aging street mourns its faded splendor. It remembers having red tulips and roses in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns in community yards lining its borders. But neighborhoods gradually dec......

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Categories: rifts, character, endurance, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Almighty God’s Son
...He visited Simon's mother-in-law, who had a fever. Did he do so because she was kin of his disciple? The elderly needed care. He knew this as a healer. Wasn't their psyche more than their physique......

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Categories: rifts, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

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