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Smothers Poems - Poems about Smothers

Premium Member october brushed by
...october brushed by in the midst of an october sunrise bearing splashes of colors beyond description like a thick acrylic paint mixture crimson with cadmium yellow thrown…scattered ......

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Categories: smothers, color, god, october,
Form: Free verse
The Dark That Lingers
...Night creeps into midday, enters the dawn and lingers, it arrives too early on a summer evening. This night-light is moonless, it surrounds you as you drive to a gravesite, or as you lay in a c......

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Categories: smothers, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Calling of Home
...Focusing on my self; no other filtered out all negative feelings cut ties with deceptive dealings home is calling so don't bother Feeling things that make no sense a little of revenge, guilt, ......

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Categories: smothers, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member River Of Lies
...Tears, they flow as giddy gushing streams, and meddle with our facile sense of joy, seamlessly they interface cod emotions, whirlpool laughter smothers trite elation, smirking bogus rivulet, weep......

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Categories: smothers, dark, deep, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bird's Eye View
...A little bird has flown the nest to seek a world of wonder and spreads her wings 'neath skies possessed by lightning bolts and thunder. She flee......

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Categories: smothers, war, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Personas Limitation
...Personas have limits, boundaries veiled by the thin masquerade of pretense They whisper promises of identity, yet crack under pressure of reality's weight—poet She puts on her face while vapi......

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Categories: smothers, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Self Love is a Choice
...For years I'd written myself notes with names of some I can't remember. Those I've cheered; stood and applauded. Protagonists who played Romeo to my Juliet. Shakespeare would've lauded. Scribble......

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Categories: smothers, love, self,
Form: Free verse
Chasing Away Joy
...Looking for a new way, To inspire my day. Dropping what I love, Chasing my joy away. Trying to change ways, And the part I play. To reflect, A better aspect, Of Myself. Tea......

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Categories: smothers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Bleeding Heart
...bedazzled by jewels beguiled by the gem of you~ diamond eternal as fake gold duals alloys mix unbanding two~ with flames infernal tears drowning in pools blinders tunnel, love ......

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Categories: smothers, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Haiku
Her Autumn Kimono was Goofed
...Coal tar zombie mouth leaks town gas syrup Meat hook telegraphy indicator cameras hypnagogic Liverwurst elegy beneath the frosting Cinderblock reverie churns with mildew Manus? Grilled chees......

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Categories: smothers, africa, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
... We sat in the fallout of last year’s gift exchange— smashed angel centerpiece taped back together as good as a rogue bomb if someone mentioned it. Our voices dragged like anchors throu......

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Categories: smothers, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Varselle
... Done well, another’s terse form to dwell on druthers. Oh so short and sweet, (too long just smothers) concise, complete, it casts the briefest spell. ---------- Th......

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Categories: smothers, appreciation, writing,
Form: Other
Asleep at the Wheel
... The obscenely convincing, have arrived in their stealth mobiles. We are made to unmake-belief, to regurgitate Saran wrapped words. Wide-eyed we watch the spreading creep of windowless thought-......

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Categories: smothers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Short Drive into Autumn
...September has mottled the forest maples. South of here, zombie cicadas chafe heated thighs, but North of Tippecanoe Shawnee trails lead into autumn. We take photographs, but the green still s......

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Categories: smothers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sandwich
...I am the Bagel...you are the whole of my life I am the pickle... you are the sweet to my sour I am the butter... you spread happiness all over me I am the cheese... your softness smothers me I am......

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Categories: smothers, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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