Taints Poems - Poems about Taints

... If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor – Desmond Tutu The Trumpet of Parrots Patriots rally to the trumpet sound, its blare echoes the lies ......

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...I fear the closets fuzzy things Unseen thoughts with distant stings Dreams soft whispering breezes bring To calm the demons to which I cling For life has had its way with me It taints the beau......

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... Of Love A feeling that seeps through you, Searching— For, as people claim, the heart. But don’t you feel It’s shackled, chained, and bound? But— People. People. These puppets of fate, The......

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...Dust coats mementos in treasure trove In a veil that palls recall with a shroud. It dims the past with repast of neglect, That taints memories with fading, settling light. Echoes become fainter, ......

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...Individualistic philanthropy is a virtue to a spark, A charred ember of your simmering soul, Before me are those who surround my being, My subconscious is present as I often drown myself to bec......

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...I sleep for minutes at a time And wake up with more on my mind It’s not enough to be king of it all When you see how quickly you’ll fall Can you feel the weight of the sea As the waves crash ......

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...Probably not my first battleground with this nasty bug Still haven't tested positive after many attempts But I know I have it now False negatives or perhaps it's just my luck I'm still kicking my......

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...When debate gets personal and inflamed, You cry: 'Why can't you talk like an adult?' 'Why can't you engage in adult conversation, without the claptrap, rants and rage with hurls of abuse and name......

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...She is with some taints: Her nose has some scents; Coming from some paints, Her neck has some dents; Shown by hidden vents, But she looks like saints.......

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...For real love, she eagerly waits, All she could get were several hates, Her lips even have many open gates, That deliberately close lates, Her eyes have several inbuilt baits, That still......

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...an empty room and I stare at the ceiling blank eyes and a blanker slate, my poker face arms spread over my head all I can see are whirring blades blurring into creamy paint and the small cra......

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...Emptiness seems paler, Within the wind and the movements, Echoes begin to creep in, Without a beat, beyond the warnings, The effervescence that once fueled my tools now sears my lungs, Coll......

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... From strange elixir of mind a form walks in forming strange lines, in a poem of a chant of a spell, encantrain echoes it's well. Where roses bloom, dead and spirits recite their bleed of......

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...No winds are winnowing enough To put a quill back in the hands of the dead poet Or confidence back in the trachea of the strangled speaker In me Because no words are as vile As no words at all ......

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...Written: October 16, 2023 This Or That, Vol 21 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purit......

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