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Sloughed Poems - Poems about Sloughed

Premium Member Snake Skin
... On a woodland path, a near perfect sloughed off snake skin, it scales glistening in bright morning light, its owner somewhere in a new season’s growth. Call it a rite of passage ......

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Categories: sloughed, extended metaphor,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member circles and catcalls
...I’m standing in the common room, turning in circles. I’ve so many things to do, all at once, I can’t figure out which way to jump. A time management problem, I suppose, maybe I should have taken that......

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Categories: sloughed, class, friend, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Natural State
..."free from conditioned belief no agenda on our shelf vibrant as the light of Self life flows on all by itself” - Unseeking Seeker All I wish is to be my genuine self Fre......

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Categories: sloughed, happy, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken Spiderwebs
...Our home was lit with autumn's spicy scent. Now spent are the forms that had something to hold: votive molds, photo frames, vases.... forsaken. The form within my breast, too, is forsaken, no l......

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Categories: sloughed, autumn, divorce, for him,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Forewarned
...a little birdie told him that his owner had sold him the warning he sloughed alas, he was stuffed and nothing said consoled him......

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Categories: sloughed, bird, food, humor, silly,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member In a Split Second
...In a split second, life can be snuffed Unforeseen events cause misery Why this is so, ‘tis a great mystery Of such our lives are suitably stuffed None of us should ever be bluffed Ac......

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Categories: sloughed, death, fate, life,
Form: Other
One Mans Treasure
...An antique store’s the perfect place To browse among the shelves And see the past through objects People sloughed off of themselves. From dolls to clothes to dishes, Chairs and glassware, mir......

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Categories: sloughed, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Wings- POTD
... For a time, I want to shed my earthly existence Like the sloughed skin of a snake To rise high and still higher like a bird To sail beyond sunset, to fly far, far away To soar into......

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Categories: sloughed, bird, fantasy, longing, sky,
Form: Free verse
Upcoming Mild Temperatures Will Quickly Melt Snow
...I looked outside the bedroom window here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments today March 13th, 2022 low and behold took stock of soundless grounded sideshow. Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth par......

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Categories: sloughed, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispering Wings
... In my sleep I had a strange dream Around my shoulders two wings sprouted They whispered to me in gentle tones “Now that you have wings, Don’t you wish to shed your earthly ex......

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Categories: sloughed, dream, fantasy, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Obnoxious Insight
...Each piece of greenery falls to mildew. On wood, a harsh fungus echoes sinew. Agony squirmed and sloughed in my body Then, all tumble, I grieve and feel guilty. Glare from sunli......

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Categories: sloughed, analogy, beauty, conflict, future,
Form: Sonnet
Rivers' Dream
...St. Lawrence river in the spring when a lake makes the ocean its' dream shallow ice and sand bend the wind the twigs begin to twitch and spin sandwiched like a water gin buds burn thr......

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Categories: sloughed, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Mild Temperatures Gradually Melt Snow
...Mild temperatures gradually melt snow I looked outside the bedroom window here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments today February 28th, 2021 low and behold took stock of soundless grounded sidesho......

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Categories: sloughed, anger, conflict, crush, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Ennui
...The marbled cat sat in the hall a baleful eye on a marbled ball. Not even that could lighten his mood so he wandered off to find some food, which he sniffed and licked and sniffed some more, the......

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Categories: sloughed, cat, pets,
Form: Rhyme
I Cant Write Nuttin On a Full Stomach
...I can't write nuttin' worth a damn on a full stomach! Hunger pangs fuel mine poetic juices, yours truly moost best be famished resembling lovely bag of bones beyond irreparable damage wrought ......

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Categories: sloughed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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