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Rusted Poems - Poems about Rusted

RUSTED MILES
An ominous trail in their dark ashes— each ellipsis hid a treacherous bend. I feel the camper’s hollow rattle between cracked ribs that won’t quite mend. Not their youth, but mine— still burning in oil-smoke haze too thick to see. Torn nights of endless yearning— a senseless chase I couldn’t face, and wouldn’t flee. Would the dust of reckless trysts still stir— and burn again? Would my reading turn to riding that soulless path, the camper’s sin? The snare of wishing for...

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Categories: rusted, hurt, inspirational, loneliness, lost
Form: Lyric
Life in a Jar
Life in a Jar I’d like to find a special jar To put aside some life, A jar that keeps both face and form, And stints the scourge of change. I’d put therein, a rusted leaf, Or summer’s one perhaps, To always have the seasons at The twisting of a wrist. I’d put therein, my true love’s kiss, To always know its...

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Categories: rusted, i am, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member This Rusted Bed of Nails
I'm feeling judged still by what jury's found cold; in the courts of February Tried to hide 'til July; warm feelings are just not meant to be temporary I count my curses on one hand and my blessings on the other Whichever fills up first; the latter will assuredly smother The shadows always seem to know that light exposes...

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Categories: rusted, love, pain, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Creaky floors rusted gates at your feet the fallen's fate
The Creators brush in the stream of Ocean waves Painting with feeling and shading with inner thought Inventing a life a moment of escape Swimming towards an open gate A trigger with a conscience A finger on a dime in somebody's tore pocket What is saved at the end of the day without the skill of care. Losing...

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Categories: rusted, humanity, ocean, race,
Form: Free verse
My Shiny Rusted Face
I thought it must be Squeaky Clean The World I Shined for All To See My Truth a Lie of base Identity: I’d scraped off all the Ugly Parts, Burned out both the moles and warts. I bleached my Soul; I bleached my Hair; The smallest effort never spared. I took comfort that you Envied Me, For once you thought you glimpsed...

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Categories: rusted, age, women,
Form: Rhyme



Rusted Autumn
Full of looming fruit The black wind whispers the children lived blithely yonder in blue cave The silent river protrudes by the forked road where the seagrass grows The seagull mutely follows jaded in evening sun old church bells whisper chimes Coolness and Autumn play in lonely chambers Sacred blue chimes in plaid footsteps The rusted window rattles to the graveyard on the hill The legends are foretold twig like,...

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Categories: rusted, analogy, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rusted Bowls-
~all that is gleaned seldom shines as rusted is the brass bowl~ 7/25/22 ...

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Categories: rusted, analogy, engagement, metaphor,
Form: Monoku
Rusted Frame
I was blind eager. sad. to drape myself with you. your rust stains my frame....

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Categories: rusted, emotions, happiness, heart, meaningful,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member An Ugly, Rusted and Broken Machine
the economic health of the stock market is the not the same as the economic, psychological or physical health of the poor or a nation. the comparison is like creating an attractive outer cover over an ugly, rusted and broken machine...

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Categories: rusted, allusion, business, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magical Epiphany of An Old Rusted Can
The Magical Epiphany of an Old Rusted Can whilst out hiking one day in a countryside area that was quite desolate and remote from any nearby city, I discovered, amazingly, an Old Rusted Can that was at least two-liter-sized and was partially-buried in a long dried-out river bed in the middle of nowhere this Old Rusted Can protruded out upright at...

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Categories: rusted, allegory, god, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Imagism
Roasted Chickens, Rusted Spanners
Africa, why are you excited so much with roasted chicken you get each year coming to you from foreign poultry farms Can they lay eggs that can hatch, multiply? Africans, why are you excited so much with rusted spanners you sign for each season coming in to build grass-thatched huts Can they build industrial complexes in Africa? Africans, why are you excited so...

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Categories: rusted, africa, satire,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Hearts of Rusted Iron and Cold Steel
Hearts Of Rusted Iron And Cold Steel Riding along paths of illusions, glory bound- Men with steel and fever in hard beating hearts, Minds driven by deep desires and aching pains Emotions deeper than anger's greatest depths- Souls with sharpened sabers in their polished scabbards Careful in their pride, they nourished goulish intensities Upon spirited horses, they gallop into hell's darkest dins With...

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Categories: rusted, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rusted Gate
The Rusted Gate The lock to the old rusted gate is finally opened, but it’s too late. Heidi Sands...

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Categories: rusted, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Rusted Gate
Gray rusted gate is the gateway to the house when two souls live forever November 9, 2016...

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Categories: rusted, love,
Form: Monoku
The Rusted Gate
I still hear my little sis, standing by the rusted gate, "Wait, wait for me,Roy" For contest One, One Liner - The Rusted Gate 11/9/16...

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Categories: rusted, family,
Form: Verse

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