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Slights Poems - Poems about Slights

Champagne reign of Shane
... It’s been 3 years since the low blow of nadirs As we said hooroo to you..goodbye to our top guy Still feeling...reeling from the pain Of all the polished veneers of careers Which is th......

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Categories: slights, sports,
Form: Rhyme
flip a coin
...two sides to every coin sometimes, the head speaks while the tail roars twisted by the pain tales of their fame an infamous villain sent to the stockade Tales told, and evils sold A pench......

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Categories: slights, drink, forgiveness, friendship, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Seance
... “The Seance” It was macabre you see, we were all summoned, and therefore found ourselves in the front parlour of Ballylee; In our dreams we thought we were poets ......

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Categories: slights, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sisters
...Ages past, the words that caused the rift still, today, so far apart they drift. As time recedes, old memories fade bitterness remains their raw charade. New slights imagined, old stories told s......

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Categories: slights, anger, betrayal, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member RSVP
...R.S.V.P. I read your note today. You begged me to stay. I needed to get away. You asked for a reply. I could only sigh. I knew I would lie. Tears blurred as I wrote. My hand scribbled a......

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Categories: slights, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



I will distribute my poems left and right!
...I know that life is a continuous fight, Who can hear a quiet person might? May today be a celebration for mankind, I will distribute my poems left and right! Let my poems flash like lightning......

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Categories: slights, inspiration,
Form: Other
Riots From Rhymes
...There are only so many pages and so many stages Of life I can riddle and write on through Until the paper's a waste, and the words are bad taste And I can't tell fiction from true Until the pen ......

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Categories: slights, conflict, literature, nostalgia, writing,
Form: Rhyme
When We Get There
... When we get to our appointed heaven hearts and minds still cooling slights and insults recovering from many a minor bullet hole from small caliber affronts loathing’s and spites and other pet......

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Categories: slights, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blessed Advent Cores His Great Divine
..."Blessed assurance glory divine ..." Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows, as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade, begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows, the......

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Categories: slights, beautiful, blessing, creation, earth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a U - - U || U UUt U U - || U - X daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist U U - || U UUt - || U U U U - X ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn......

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Categories: slights, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian I
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ... 'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis poised t......

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Categories: slights, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Home Is Where You Hang Air
...COUPLET After a couple of Tequila Sunrise so I swap my drink that'll keep open my eyes so I had a glass of Kahlua and cream that's a blunder as I fell into a dream INNER RHYME I awoke that fe......

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Categories: slights, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waker-Upper
...A butterfly, aliferous, of subtle slights, soniferous, common spirits, days just went by, aliferous . . . a butterfly. Low pinnacles alight sought rest forgiving sun favors spread ......

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Categories: slights, appreciation, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Cocoon
... "Cocoon" They say... a New World traces over the old, leaving the unaware, erased, far behind the old unaware, left far behind, crawls the walls in its web of ......

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Categories: slights, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Impending Doom
... The end is nigh. As the sun goes down on my life aboard a Titanic-like ship, infinitesimal time is being sucked into death's vacuum. Amid all the frenzy and anguished screams, a fiddl......

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Categories: slights, farewell, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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