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Straying Poems - Poems about Straying


A Pal Full of Validation
A peacock to some, but to others a confident and close friend. Confidence, humorous, displays feathers, selects the perfect mate. Unbeknownst is he of the defects within his selection, too much time lusting the outside, never fully knowing the inside. Secure in his vibrant colors, overconfident that his mate would never stray. Too concerned with the outward appearance of those...

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Categories: straying, addiction, animal, anxiety, bird,
Form: Free verse
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Straying Haiku: by Tom 1/28/2021 Too often man strays, from God’s appointed pathway, a fatal mistake. ...

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Categories: straying, god,
Form: Haiku



Straying Into
Did I stray or am I suppose to walk into? This one road that was led too far... A path if perhaps was once so cool To know if once more, who we are... Do you regret walking down this road? I must say I do not because I am today who I am Maturing upon this questionable approach I'm vastly becoming...

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Categories: straying, life,
Form: Rhyme
Straying Away
I look and wonder what you are like inside, The superficial aspect that I see intrigues my like. I estimate the treasure that you hold; Your mind itself a temple of gold. Lost in the colors expelled by your hair strands, Fantasizing in what else lies within your hands. Your touch; the way it rises the...

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Categories: straying, crush, emotions, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
Straying Juvenile
.Part 1. Spoken. My younger sibling, I brought you painfully up, you brought me "pain" fully I myself struggled through constant hard times, your constant struggling with yourself, hard timed me I cleared a pathway through life for you, you clearly thought the pathways were lined with gold Today I had to...

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Categories: straying, dad, family, life, lost,
Form: Narrative



Straying Back Home
well, I'm back, guess for nostalgia, glimpse of some memorabilia, someone left the front porch light on, self-contained sheen, like pale neon, casting the yard in dreamy glow, ...

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Categories: straying, life, nostalgia, people,
Form: Rhyme

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