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Starkly Poems - Poems about Starkly

SILENCE
...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def......

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Categories: starkly, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Death Walks On Divine Path
... In the maze of forsaken wasteland the tired traveler, breathless, can’t respond to the summon of unseen caller, stepping out silently at the fringe of the hazy horizon unclear. In th......

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Categories: starkly, death, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Three sides to every story
...both mother and father nurture their child in his formative years but though all three live in one home starkly different are their fears the breeze, the tree and Mother Earth take a selfie t......

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Categories: starkly, introspection, muse, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Oct 31
...Bell re-rung lit bag of dung; no treat, so a smelly trick stomping makes a foot quite slick serves him right the cranky old prick -- Horrid Ghosts shrieking goblins bloody sacks cree......

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Categories: starkly, celebration, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Photographs Fixed Fade
...Photographs fixed in fixative curse memories to fade, As they are too true and static, starkly black and white. Recalling a snap-shot, not how you want your memories made. Each scene fixed in time......

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Categories: starkly, image, memory, perspective,
Form: Sonnet



Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - Mr Black
... Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian. Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954) Mirror Time Does Not Wait For Anyone, R......

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Categories: starkly, baptism, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light
...In the deepest chasms of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light, A magical and melancholic poem unfolds, with equal verses, tightly woven. Inspired by the nature of the poet, that soli......

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Categories: starkly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Done With the Muse
... Poetry is a messy business. It reveals itself in phases, Flowing, growing, dancing upon the starkly untouched pages. Happily, the stream of thought won’t stop for days upon days Then, BAM! It b......

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Categories: starkly, inspiration, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starkly Somber Skies
... starkly somber skies omnipotent owl overlords parliament prevails......

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Categories: starkly, animal, bird, flying, power,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member I am That
... Sixty plus, and counting, Still running from my life: Child, athlete, writer, warrior, Master Teacher, mother, wife. Still pondering the age-old question, "Who am I?" Am I what I do? What ......

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Categories: starkly, character, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member deferred
... I … loved you all in my way … obviously starkly different as pertaining to our particular bonds (covalent, in most respects) each, a glyph to form words in the phrase of Us … only one lef......

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Categories: starkly, analogy, creation, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Lovely enchantress of cyberspace
...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace Betwixt and between us lies an immense untraversable realm of never knowable forbidding possibilities quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic..., where ta......

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Categories: starkly, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Last Drop Of Their Blood
... In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free, Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set. Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun, Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter deb......

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Categories: starkly, absence, addiction, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Spark Within: Rediscovering Divine Essence
...While looking in the mirror I see, Reflections of a celestial being A shimmering essence, radiant as Kohinoor's gleam, In her eyes, an ethernal connection, like a celestial theme, Her ears, a ......

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Categories: starkly, angel, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
After the Surgery
...These blatant lives we lead with our guts hanging out between pretty words. I remember (after the failed gastric surgery), when gore spilled out of my prone body; that slow unwinding of blank ......

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Categories: starkly, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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