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Set Down Poems - Poems about Set Down

Premium Member Beware The Gate Ahead
... “Hey, look there Jim” the young girl said “What is this old gate up ahead? Now do you think we should go through. I’m really game if you will too.” We’ll have to clear these sticks away and ......

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Categories: set down, dark, grave, scary, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Yards
...While I was at work my yards were busy a nameless, white flower plucked from my front garden lay on the brick shelf by the gate wrapped in cream silk its stem inserted into a (dry) plastic flow......

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Categories: set down, flower, football, garden, home,
Form: Free verse



lunchroom thoughts
...where did all of the friendly faces go? the people i was just gossiping to in my math class? the people who i've stayed up all night talking to? the people that i would trust if my life depended o......

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Categories: set down, betrayal, deep, friendship, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A Scroll Of Unseen Waters
...The Scroll Of Unseen Waters Come, you who carry fire in your bones and salt in your tears…? Children of the drum, the dusk, the dust, and the dawn…? From mountain root ......

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Categories: set down, africa, devotion, mystery, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Makes Me Smile
... What Makes Me Smile Smiles I seek from sweet shines of life To abate stress of my daily strif......

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Categories: set down, heart, heaven, life, moon,
Form: Couplet



Chasing the Gray
... Suddenly over the sudden years I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross - the weight of sundry uncharted days. Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder or a broken spool in......

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Categories: set down, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Decision of Love
...“I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.” ? Langston Hughes She ambled down the perfumed garden as the moon rose high ......

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Categories: set down, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's all in the numbers
...In this city where LEDs set down the glows, Every heartbeat adds up to what nobody knows You said it, and I felt our friendship; gather a spark, "One four three," you whispered and lit up the dark......

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Categories: set down, i love you,
Form: Lyric
LIFE GOES ON WITHOUT YOU
...Turns out Life goes on without you After the whirlwind of center stage, As the spotlight dims and the curtain falls, With the echo of the last applause fading, I am left with a sobering t......

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Categories: set down, change, eulogy, goodbye, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raging Fire Hollow Hearts
... Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq......

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Categories: set down, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Telescope
...In every life, now and after, I would choose you, and look for your laughter, even if we will never be together, I’d still choose you, always and forever, if I had nine lives, I’d spend all nine with......

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Categories: set down, earth, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Outside the Upstairs Window, and It's All Saints Day
...The dead-end street in front of the house is still, and I notice leaves have fallen. The roommate said last night no one came here for trick or treating and now a cold wind blows. I just moved i......

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Categories: set down, age, autumn, friendship, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Passing Through
...Nobody came to the party The lights were set down low Nobody came to the party It was like they didn’t know The music touched your soul Crept inside, never letting go The spirits passed through......

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Categories: set down, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member cats and boots
...Here’s to scrumptious nights. cats and boots and cats and boots We went clubbing last night, to recalibrate ourselves on the dance floor, where magic happens. cats and boots and cats and boots an......

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Categories: set down, dance, dark, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
2017 - The Turning
...Behold the day of tumultuous turning With the sting of betrayal in the heart still burning When all seems gone, dead and lost And the heart is unable to measure the cost. The enemy pushes the d......

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Categories: set down, betrayal, conflict, god, journey,
Form: Rhyme

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