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Subsisting Poems - Poems about Subsisting

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage

...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
...
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Categories: subsisting, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme

A Dance with Death, A Plaguing Curse

...
{"You’re alive,
The dagger hadn’t slashed you deep enough, to coalesce with your veins and say Goodbye to the world that wasn’t created to be for your amusement and pursuit. My parents would repea...
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Categories: subsisting, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse



Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...
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Categories: subsisting, abuse, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBroken

...“In the beguiled memory the pieces of 
broken dreams shape the lost love” – Quote by Poet


In your squishy hug my arms delicately turn
into the brace of heart’s enchanted urn,
set the ...
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Categories: subsisting, heartbreak, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Glory To Thermodynamics In General

...Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficie...
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Categories: subsisting, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme



My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus

...My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrend...
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Categories: subsisting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Love Language

...My love for language is the best
Yet my love for her goes far mile than that.
She lightens my heart with her smile
Even when in the nighttime, I see through her heart.

She is that- subsisting
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Categories: subsisting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberEndless Journey

...If I were immortal,
the carriage of fleeting time 
can’t carry my soul away
from the adoring life in the present
to the distant realm of the past
where everything acquired 
gets abandon...
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Categories: subsisting, analogy, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLocation, Location

...Sanctuaries, being scarce
I chose a thicket in the forest
  ~ subsisting on berries...
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Categories: subsisting, environment, fruit,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBoundless Grace

...Pursue a cheerful mindset, a joyful appreciation of God's many gifts. To prevent being persuaded to believe that we got the benefits when the cup was still half full, empty cups should never b...
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Categories: subsisting, analogy, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Haibun

Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part One

...Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.

Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic ca...
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Categories: subsisting, anger, confusion, crush, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Crazy Heart

...It's a sorry mind
That falls from the sky
Upside down and half blind,

Bleary eyes tell tears
Not where to go but why,
How they came to be here.

Being from a rental shelter,
Habitations mad...
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Categories: subsisting, life, poetess, poverty, self,
Form: Rhyme

Glory To Thermodynamics

...and spoils of Western Civilization.

Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and...
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Categories: subsisting, adventure, earth, green, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Alliteration

...Resiliently
receptionist recovered
recycled report


See subdued sunbeams
Subsisting still, somewhere shine
Suffusing sunset


Trendy teenager
Trusting tie-dyeing trainee
Tee shirt total ...
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Categories: subsisting, visionary,
Form: Alliteration

Qayyoom

...Self-Subsisting-
No end,remains God’s stand!...
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Categories: subsisting, god,
Form: Blank verse

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