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Roughened Poems - Poems about Roughened

Premium Member Crown of Crows
...Soiled sinners lecturing on the art of being pristine. Innocents retreats to black pits and dank seams God tucked away the ivory ring and red lantern very few are rescued from the darkness within......

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Categories: roughened, environment, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resurrected
...a roughened garden devil's claw over blossom stones like dominos estate sale today fingering through memories grief cold uncaring sold to the future children bouncing on the grass laughte......

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Categories: roughened, death, life,
Form: Free verse



The Dark Door
...O great door, Your suede mist has called me here, It beckoned whilst rolling over upon itself towards me, The burnt ash of your bones shows your wear And your wounded song fills me with wonder. ......

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Categories: roughened, deep, dream, growth, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fish Lass Lament
...Along the harbor shores at Gammel Strand where other costumed fishwives ply their trade, I trudge along the cobbled Danish dock and barter with the catch to earn my pay. My voice is harsh and rou......

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Categories: roughened, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Men
...In the beginning, so long ago When the world was young, yet to grow There stood the first men, brave and strong With hearts fierce, and wills unyielding long Their skin was roughened by the s......

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Categories: roughened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic



First Letters
...Out of the wind, the brown carpet is marked prosaic like petals swept away My snowdrops weltering in the winter not even dead heading can help their blind eye stalks I feel like a pebble r......

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Categories: roughened, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grand
... Work roughened hands Gentle like a heart Who bends its ear, listening… Whispering kindness Coloring the morning songs In laughter, smiles Love that abides inside one Who is more th......

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Categories: roughened, appreciation, child, childhood, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Men and Ships
...Of men and ships that plow the seas And leave a vanished furrow In unmarked depths of ocean field Where a million sees lie fallow. Men who cast with roughened hands Hopes upon the silken crests ......

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Categories: roughened, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Verse
The Damaging Testimonial of Billy Burn
...To whom it may concern, Wishing to more learn About the bearer, our ex-student, He was a Great Sympathizer of ‘The Imprudent’… Worldly wise and to a fault bright, He was to become a familiar s......

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Categories: roughened, education, fashion, freedom, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Blessing In the Balance
...Slowly, treading softly I must guard my hesitant heart Taking forward moves with caution If any rebuilding is to start I'm still wading wounded waters Tidal waves of fear and doubt Self-rest......

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Categories: roughened, blessing, courage, heart, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean Treasure
...Oh ocean of that long-gone embryo Careening stormy erratic, to pacific Ever sculpting in navy-wavy trance Atop your peaks diamond ambrosia Never-never dreams, you've grown ~ Troughs, they stri......

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Categories: roughened, adventure,
Form: Ode
Forest Walk At Night
...Calmness floats along the breeze lightly brushing my face and arms. Deep colors of indigo and bronze splash across the darkening sky. Silence - interrupted by nighttime, tickling and buzzing in ......

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Categories: roughened, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Hear You When You Whisper
..." I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN YOU WHISPER " you screech one final time, so loudly that the walls between us shake (Listen, listen, listen!) I repeat, with fresh rebellion but to you, it's just ......

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Categories: roughened, abuse, anger, angst, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Oak
...The oak is a most pleasant tree She gently towers over thee Shading everything on the ground Inspired by small brownish round tiny acorn wee Red squirrels claim her for their home She provides......

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Categories: roughened, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
... A coloratura rises from the suede-edged shape as the gnarled grande dame comes to light.......

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Categories: roughened, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

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