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Sheathing Poems - Poems about Sheathing

A Pull, A Return
...The snake coils in the sun, spectacles sheathing her eyes, trunk warming against the earth. They say she feels nothing, only the hiss of hunger, the strike of instinct. But watch— how she lin......

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Categories: sheathing, art, change, color, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of These Three
...Of these three: faith, hope and love- let love reign. And faith, as essential as one's breathing; Hope must be second, for a higher plane. When suffering and heartache stir the pain ......

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Categories: sheathing, faith, hope, love,
Form: Villanelle



Storms
...When the winds blow and the rains fall I can feel her in every breath I take and in every droplet that hits my brow a needing sheathing the barren recesses of my mind still I stand there no......

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Categories: sheathing, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Born In Original Sin ie: BIOs
...Statuesque breaths of blossoming beauty bearing thorns. Flowing fullness of fragrant flowery affairs sheathing weeds. Without human intervention, such is the truth of nature, such are the facts of ......

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Categories: sheathing, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Similes and Smiles
... Reflected in the waters of yesterday, Considering all that has come and gone, Affections for those who won’t betray… Whisper through me like a heavy yawn. Together with the trem......

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Categories: sheathing, appreciation, imagery, metaphor, muse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member To Tame the Beast
...~~~ Not entered in a contest ~~~ I knew better than to touch the tail of a tiger, but temptation was only a hair's breadth away. A tiger lies sleeping. My hand, creeping closer, fingers burnin......

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Categories: sheathing, tiger,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Devotion Honored
...Kneeling in prayer, the King folded his hands His assassination thusly prevented Times were different then, devotion honored ~ Stabs in the back were frowned on What Hamlet simply cou......

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Categories: sheathing, change, character, history, murder,
Form: Couplet
Skins
...Age 10 slough. Age twenty slough. Age thirty slough. Age forty and fifty slough and so on. Age sixty was a mighty shedding, the polished scales rattling in the very teeth of death. Wriggling......

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Categories: sheathing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Negotiation Table
...The negotiation table With sounds of Booms Invading rooms And the mounting fears For the closest spears The negotiation table That could things make stable, Should step into the scene And ......

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Categories: sheathing, conflict, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
eave's hanging out
.... Yesss there she stood Flamming In the Vernal hern vernal Blond tresses competing with the sun Diaphanous cerulean sh......

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Categories: sheathing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The High Note
...The fat lady, lips in shape of par excellence “O.” The viking hat makes her taller and more ominous. Faces flicker like torches in the dead of night. operatic score the deafening metal shriek — ......

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Categories: sheathing, murder, violence,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Why Cannot We See
...Why cannot we see The sun will shine brighter when… we appreciate shadows as a generous reflection of truth embrace the dazzling display of rainbow’s complement ......

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Categories: sheathing, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anti-Snow Spell
...You fall from above with your slow caress of devastation, Sheathing the spectre of this planet in a blanket of bleach, While you slice away at life below with your cold castration, Hacking away wi......

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Categories: sheathing, magic, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weary Traveler
...I was a musketeer Fighting to save a dying land Soldier with a heart Hate never disappeared As greed and waste were in command Tearing it apart Armed with a sword of words Choosing my battles,......

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Categories: sheathing, care, character, conflict,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Paws N Wings: Kitten N Butterflies
...I closed my eyes for just a few moments to take a nap. I was dreaming about my purrty lil' feline friend, Rose. My sleep was disturbed by a gentle tap tap tap tap tap. What are these fl......

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Categories: sheathing, butterfly, cat,
Form: Pantoum

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