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Severing Poems - Poems about Severing

Why are you back

...Why are you back
Looking in the mirror and only seeing disdain
These things begin to taint my brain

Why are you back
Intrusive thoughts of severing skin
Again they begin

Why are you back
I...
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Categories: severing, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIrReligious MisEducation

...S/he is controversially counter-cultural

And yet,
MotherEartha defensively claims,
not so:

We grow trans-regenerational
transubstantiating substances
and subjects
to integrate more sacredl...
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Categories: severing, god, health, peace, political,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium MemberThanatos Cold Embrace Of Death

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Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes,   *           for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is nearby —poetess
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Categories: severing, death, grief,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA thousand cuts

...Severing of ties with our allies.
Court orders blatantly defied.
Plans to privatize, those federal
agencies now downsized..
Green card holders traumatized..
A thousand cuts.
A thousand bleeds.
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Categories: severing, america, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

The Milling of Mind

...Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderou...
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Categories: severing, change, conflict, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHOM WE MUST BELIEVE

...January 19 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 4-6
 
Key Verse – Exodus 4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the Go...
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Categories: severing, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

A Loud Silence

...A prolonged loud silence
Shattering my belief
Baffling my spirit 
Summoning an inevitable end 
Of what we had between us
Shunning my existence 
Severing the bond that tied us 
The heart lies b...
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Categories: severing, angst, break up, change,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAt The Cusp

...At the cusp
Of a wave, a change, a fall
Into total darkness

Here we stand 
Or rather slide
Headfirst into destruction 

And as we fall
Into chaos and dissolution 
We will at last be saved
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Categories: severing, anxiety, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLost in Sorrow

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The last rays of sunshine disappear 
as the dark clouds interweave,
The show ends, and the crowd leaves,
Left behind were dashed hopes and 
unfulfilled dreams scattered on the 
ground,
Next...
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Categories: severing, endurance, grief, heartbreak, sad
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberONE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY

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The function of our family tree is to keep us safe and cool and warm…
to offer us a comfortable place to rest and to give us shelter from the storm.

But when I gaze out on our world…it’s bitter...
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Categories: severing, family,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberONENESS

...There can be no severing,
Our oneness is eternal;
One in onederful onement:-
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Categories: severing, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberMidway III

...Then through the mist, the Sun was set ablaze
and all beneath its realm fell to their knees.
‘Twas but a fire that filled the coming days
as mortal ashes wafted through the breeze.
Her wreckage w...
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Categories: severing, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberThe Emperor

...When arrogance pursues a despot spire
through dominance consumed with vain conceit,
‘tis but a trait that sets the world afire
as ignorance lets history repeat.

They see the presage warning of ...
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Categories: severing, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMy Social Science Seminar

...I asked my Sacred Arts and Science professor
why seminars work and play better in feminist circles
than claustrophobic minion lines
of lectured from teacher's desk
above

S/he sings
in rings
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Categories: severing, art, education, green, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberIn the quiet hum of the cafe, beneath the dim, flickering lights

...In the quiet hum of the café, beneath the dim, flickering lights,
The Poet sat, a relic of past ambitions, his soul adrift in the sea of his thoughts.
The Muse, with gentle and understanding eyes, ...
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Categories: severing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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