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Shriveled Poems - Poems about Shriveled

Premium Member Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum
... Welcome. I'm the one they left behind. An alter ego of sorts— just the keeper, the inventory clerk, interim ghost. New items arrive every day— spat out from my boss's pockets, sometimes st......

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Categories: shriveled, metaphor, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serenading Soul
... parched buds in shriveled sapling desolate bloom dreams in desiccated dunes as the aureate sun masks the mirage chased taking the sco......

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Categories: shriveled, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bring back the sun
... I used to think life was a luscious bowl of grapes but since in many weeks and months we haven't seen the sun I've fundamentally shriveled up my mind's become a raisin posted on March 26,......

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Categories: shriveled, psychological, silly, sunshine, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dwell In The Silver-Lined Clouds
... In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning, I let the enraptured songbird of my heart soar high, glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze that carried your jasmine fragrance to me. The da......

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Categories: shriveled, analogy, lost love, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
...Tasteless, puckered galoot, suited to the cold, he has gout. Shriveled up, with deep veins, covering up his shameful ways. She wears umbrella suits. He wears rubber boots. Puddles, of mold, p......

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Categories: shriveled, betrayal, imagery,
Form: Free verse



-I Will Always Be With You- 1
...“I fell in love with one whom I believe to be my only soulmate; she showed me the world-- she was my world. And my world was taken from me. Love stories have never appealed to me, yet I have never b......

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Categories: shriveled, abuse, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member watching a blown leaf
...A soft breeze blows a leaf It scuttles and scurries across the porch Brown and shriveled, looks a bit like an oak leaf Dead, yet still able to move in the wind I can hear another hearty gale from......

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Categories: shriveled, nature,
Form: Free verse
behind the viel
...Dust laden window grilles, Lime scales on the shower door. Detritus below the fragmented doors, Commiserating the saudade and furor. Blackened cushions besmirched with dirt, dusty sheath pee......

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Categories: shriveled, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea
...Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea..., yielded following resultant fiction, which arbitrarily selected thread first popped into my head considered one among many pos......

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Categories: shriveled, absence, america, confusion, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Blue Glass Vase
...Two plastic plants, a blue glass vase of dead flowers, and a cactus. The cactus is the only living thing left of the four, and lucky it is, for it gives me hope that I can at least keep that alive. I......

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Categories: shriveled, art, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gift
... A gentle wave from curling leaf watches in weakness. Green slips from shore, a purchased release. Tender roots wash with shuttered sounds. Steals foundation to a diminished, poison grip. ......

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Categories: shriveled, autumn, beauty, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse
The World is Like the Moon
...A repaired planet looks like the moon. Where humans would die Where war would lose With a deep black sky And a hindering light The lids of your eyes And the sun, unviewably bright. I’m sad......

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Categories: shriveled, dark, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Her First President
...Bondage was good for us. "Master-me, you are me taking me.” She was right, I would lose myself in her. She’s related to George Washington, an unrecorded blood tie. Her flesh is a sensual ......

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Categories: shriveled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oath of a breadwinner
...#Oath_of_a_breadwinner See these bruises on my knees, feel the pain on my back, my salty skin from both sweat and blood, soaking my skin pale. This dilapidating strength in my bones, my body tattooe......

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Categories: shriveled, care, caregiving, courage, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ripples- New Form
... Ripples Down the dusty road, in tattered rags, He came, weary, wilted, and withered. Body bent with age, bones sticking out of the flabby skin, with a tre......

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Categories: shriveled, happy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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