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Still Life Poems - Poems about Still Life

Premium Member Clippings
a freshly mown lawn the clippings become new mulch the grass will thrive now ...

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Categories: still life, green, growth, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Multiplicity of the Self
“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman ************************************************************** Multiplicity of the Self ...

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Categories: still life, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Seating
Seating ***Changing The Subject.*** You Know, The Front Row Has All Those: EXPECTATIONS! (And The Back Row Even Morre (Moiré.)) But In The Middle You Just Fiddle-Faddle ‘Til You Bust It! Out The Door! Quick. -Gray Squirrel 07-25-2025 ...

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Categories: still life, adventure, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All Words
All Words All Words Mean More Than What You Heard Them Say, Or What You Said They Would, Or What You Thought They Did, Or What You Meant They Say… They Could EXPLODE! But Don’t Be Too Careful… They Aren’t All Yours. -Gray Squirrel 07-25-2025 ...

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Categories: still life, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member INTERLUDE
Song of life starts from the very childhood initiating symphony with prelude. supposed to be sung in parental care. Mostly nice, yet tune may be sad , though rare. Interlude is...

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Categories: still life, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Crippling Fears
Xenophobia is a one-eyed monster, the fear is so debilitating that home is all the world one needs. But when fear of strangers turns to prejudice against people from other countries, it's time to analyze the problem at its root. When do we stop feeding the hate that's rampant in this world of ours?...

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Categories: still life, anxiety, discrimination, fear, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My life on screen
my love life is a flash of television movies reruns and a bit of news it's all on screen and i'm the outsider looking in...

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Categories: still life, life, longing, love, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Who's Next?
Shudder not, for it’s the language of Death. Who’s next? —it asks Going from house to house, Both of marble and mud It cares not Nor fears man, rich or poor, Warrior or coward, Whose nest it visits, His cold arms ready for embrace, Ready to snatch Life is just but one lugubrious journey On sea or on land or on air, Which must end with the...

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Categories: still life, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Buttermorphosis
I recall the rural life of the butterfly Extravagantly —that proud floating mass of wings. Her wings flutter from sea to coast so eloquently, Yet silent with the muteness of frightened breeze. They are banners with buntings of newness — striped, Spotted, arched, dotted. Her flamboyant life history, reading it backwards, Is an exhibition of time and cosseted patience.... The winged one, aged...

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Categories: still life, butterfly, insect, life,
Form: Free verse
Extinct Eden
The skyline wheezes through gauze-thick breath, its lungs ossified in scaffolded sighs, where children etch constellations on smog, and pigeons strut in soot-stained pride. Dark as coal, and quieter than sleep, the city dreams in monochrome, its rivers choked with yesterday’s sins, its gardens traded for silicone. Traffic flows like veins in a dying beast, pumping noise into the marrow of stillness. We built this...

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Categories: still life, allegory, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts of Suicide
Tendencies to sense in me, The will to kill the self, Arise when I have thoughts to be, Another page upon this shelf. Book is but a tale unread, Besides by those of us who care, To share that which by them's been said, By those who've care'd to share. I'd rather be a page, Rather be word than figured form, Than have...

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Categories: still life, addiction, death, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunflowers and Ceasefires
Another moment of silence another flag half mast another coffin dressed in colors life's becoming quite a drag Community garden filled with needles and tomatoes tiptoe carefully keep the eyes wide open the air is filled with bullets and smoke They covered a homeless man with a paper rosary. Monday morning, there's an empty desk at school wrong place at the wrong time-a Crayola...

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Categories: still life, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Innocent As Charged
In ‘96, the gavel cracked like thunder, Though my hands held no storm. A verdict etched in iron, For a crime I never formed. They saw a shadow—chose me to fit it. Three blue uniforms spoke like fate: “Take the fall, son. This case is bigger than your...

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Categories: still life, anger, character, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sitting or doing
sitting or doing dying or moving a slug in a chair or a dance down a stair choosing apathy or energy to move or not to move to hold a couch down or plant a willow tree inside doing nothing or outside doing everything sitting or doing plunking or moving stationery or frenzied choosing fat or muscles sitting or doing dying in a recliner or digging a...

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Categories: still life, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am Hilarious Tonight
I was not always this clever, this funny, this incredibly smart But it is two a.m. somewhere, and I am hilarious; it is my art. Weirdly, I was not in any way exciting before I got to this bar. But now I am unbelievably witty, ask my buddy, his name is Gar. Aren’t I witty, Gar? Aren’t I pretty?...

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Categories: still life, life,
Form: Rhyme

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