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Riven Poems - Poems about Riven

Premium MemberCeasefires Don't Give Peace a Chance

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Guns stop firing, still the hate goes on,
with grievance still burning all along.
Peace talks halted, no hearts in repair,
Just hollow moments, trembling in air.

Need more than stalling, need...
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Categories: riven, peace,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMultiplicity of the Self

...“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
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                                         Multiplicity of the Self

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Categories: riven, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Sand and Sea

...And lo of that wave riven coast
That bounding sea who cries here most
On wind tossed shores where teardrops sown
Yearn to make their passions known
Forever clasped with lover with foe
Whereon? O...
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Categories: riven, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDeprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed

...Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories: riven, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse

Illusion of Unconditional Love

...Teary eyed trying to understand the hate in disguise
a energetic fear of abandonment help veil those lies
I am fed up with this frequency of control and hate
people are so prone to believe authent...
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Categories: riven, abuse, hate, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberNATURES FATHOM GATHERING-

...Always believing
carousels driven
 elvoved from gathering
 hibucius  industrilized junipers kisses linge...
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Categories: riven, allusion, analogy, appreciation, community,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberGamblers with Hearts

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     Trusting souls 
       gamble with hearts

     Even odds ~
       they’re riven apart
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Categories: riven, love hurts, trust,
Form: Rhyme

It's more than Guessin'

...It is a strange and wondrous thing,
When fortune comes, without a ring.
Some see not, what they have been given,
Till it is lost, and heaven's riven.

So take heed, and count thy blessings,
For...
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Categories: riven, appreciation,
Form: Other

Premium MemberAlong Dry Path

...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid? 
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories: riven, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYour indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges

...Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges,
Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges.
Your scars are but an alluring landscape,
Their call, an echo urging me t...
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Categories: riven, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTriple Word Score

...I had an offer to play a game of scrabble online
There was no chatting in the room to give me a sign
about whom my worthy opponent could possibly be
but we were well matched by the score, I could ...
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Categories: riven, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Ode To Tennessee

...Oh Tennessee, bard divine, what gems you've given,
Of truth and pain from your wrecked life riven.

Though critics scorned, your genius shone  
In shabby rooms where oft alone,

You typed amid ...
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Categories: riven, appreciation, art, celebration, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face

...Red hot chili pepper poker face...

Born that way angry antithetical 
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective 
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprie...
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Categories: riven, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Stricken With Anguished Nausea

...Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow, 
yet superimposed (likened to 
emotional palimpsest) upon 
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress 
triggered courte...
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Categories: riven, abuse, age, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Devotion

...In the shrine of my soul,
In the cathedral of contemplation.
In the temple of tenacity,
In the mosque of mercy…

Beside the rushing riven river,
Beside the thundering towers of waterfalls,
Bes...
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Categories: riven, appreciation, dedication, devotion, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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