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Slumps Poems - Poems about Slumps

Premium Member Where Intention Once Stood
... My thoughts walk barefoot on gravel roads—aching, slow, and scattershot. My mind drifts like dusk in worn linen—frayed, faded, and folding in on itself. My mind, grown tired of its tidy m......

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Categories: slumps, extended metaphor, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past
... Kensington spreads its legs— lets the city crawl in, dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq, open sore veins moaning dirty dirges. False prophets— all piss and panic— bark half-lies ......

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Categories: slumps, addiction, death, drug, mental
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Howling Wilderness
... Written: June 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh Quote: "I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in the mountains and the desert..." By Rumi ......

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Categories: slumps, appreciation, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jousting
... Medieval times A time of splendour With gallant Knights Ladies so slender Jousting tournaments The ladies all squeal Exploding of hoofs The clash of steel Enter the Black Knight......

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Categories: slumps, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
If they see her dying face, part two, written but never sent series
...She will never tell a soul that she will die. She tells everyone, even the people closest to her, that what they found will be curable, at least mostly. Her brother, her friends, her boyfriend, and h......

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Categories: slumps, 10th grade, child, christian,
Form: Free verse



If they see her dying face, part one, written but never sent series
...There is another girl I know. She loves to people-watch during the time she has to waste, and when she has no time at all. There is a girl that I know who rests her feet on a bench, with her knees tu......

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Categories: slumps, 10th grade, child, christian,
Form: Free verse
Sisyphus Silence
...Sisyphus’ Silence I sit, a silent, carved-out zone, A soul entrapped, unlit, unwhole, The majority’s tide grinds flesh to bone, While others’ feelings wallow, roll In mud that clings, ......

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Categories: slumps, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MONSTER
... Some just can't understand. And they never will. They've never been trapped in the infernal abyss. But I've been there. I've languished in the pit, felt the darkness seep through every pore of my f......

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Categories: slumps, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member ATOP THE BLEACHERS
... We watched our neighbor, Ollie, play in his first official ’T’ ball game from our seats atop the bleachers…in the shade. It was a treat watching the innocent exuberance of children… before they ......

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Categories: slumps, baseball, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jousting
... Medieval times A time of splendour With gallant Knights Ladies so slender Jousting tournaments The ladies all squeal Exploding of hoofs The clash of steel Enter the Black Knig......

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Categories: slumps, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 007 over-the-edge
...Brit's spy guy from Ian Fleming Is Bond who goes chaos stemming! When the web of life slumps See how quickly he jumps Sadly to die like a lemming ......

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Categories: slumps, death, environment, funeral, humanity,
Form: Limerick
orange ginger twirl
... atop a garden wall striped marmalade throw feline lazy time under sunshine interlaced visions a weaving paws dangle in indolent ease reach underlay deep whiskers sense sparro......

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Categories: slumps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Holiday Limericks
...Written for the contest: Holiday Humor- Limerick Set Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin Contest Judged: 11/17/2024 11:17:00 AM Placement: 2nd Our Halloween cat finally brought home, Cuteness......

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Categories: slumps, cat, fun, halloween, pets,
Form: Limerick
Weekly Market recap : A Tale of Trends and Turns
... In the markets, a wounded dollar sighs, IEA cuts oil demand, to no surprise. Stocks stride to records, touching the sky, With eyes on CPI, the reason why. The Japanese yen, in decline it st......

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Categories: slumps, adventure, africa, america, appreciation,
Form: Political Verse
Weekly Market recap : A Tale of Trends and Turns
... In the markets, a wounded dollar sighs, IEA cuts oil demand, to no surprise. Stocks stride to records, touching the sky, With eyes on CPI, the reason why. The Japanese yen, in decline it st......

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Categories: slumps, adventure, africa, america, appreciation,
Form: Political Verse

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