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Talismans Poems - Poems about Talismans

Murky Mists of Narcissists Trysts

...Varnished Tech Titans
Tattered totems tarnished
Viral tribal bible spiral
Tainted talismans taunted
Cash cows flaunted
Gerontocracy trumps democracy
Theocracy stumps hypocrisy
Autocracy dumps ...
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Categories: talismans, international, technology,
Form: Free verse

Damn it this is our planet!

...Palindrome Poem...Reverse Verse about our Perverse Universe
(flip gravity.. what goes down must then come up - sorry..read down then back up)


"In this place we all call home
Monstrously Machia...
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Categories: talismans, earth, environment, home, planet,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Membercongraduations

...Our caps flew like confetti.
Thank god I customized mine.
I'll keep it as a memento of all-nighters,
friendships formed in the academic trenches,
dismissive professors and group-project-tortures....
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Categories: talismans, cinderella, dream, feelings, good
Form: Free verse

Her Smile

...Her smile, the softly ringing bells of her laughter, the newly discovered talismans against encroaching death.

The delicate light, faint but growing, that first lit and warmed her own glowing frec...
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Categories: talismans, beauty, death, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse

Architecture of anthropological anteaters

...The day the hour,
The meat the shower,
Show no oscillating octopus to an octagonal obelisk and eat a Greek tortilla upside down in a second. It is wiser to tread lightly in a miller’s abode. Round ...
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Categories: talismans, aubade, beautiful, bird, blessing,
Form: I do not know?



Demons

...This poem is dedicated to my best friend kat.
For we are all demons!
                        

                        Demons

In ages of old, when myths held sway,
Demons walked Earth, at the...
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Categories: talismans, class,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberless-than-perfect

...I have a great piece coming up. This isn’t it, I misplaced it,
but as soon as I find it, I’ll post it. This one is less-than-perfect.

The less-than-perfect summer felt like love.
There were some...
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Categories: talismans, autumn, beach, humor, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAmong the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs

...Among the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs,
On high cliffs, beliefs carved into the mountain's root,
We stand bound by incantations, by formulas we recite like a litany,
With hearts fu...
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Categories: talismans, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

8 Little Egypts

...Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go a...
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Categories: talismans, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative

Iron

...A time to rake; to search embers,
to pore over resurrected,
fire-damaged relics.

On an ancient shore
driftwood, fagots, and reeds
are heaped up onto a pyre of time.

After the fire there is ...
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Categories: talismans, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Lyrical legends

...Big ups to my lyrical legends
From ground zero to the heavens they ascend
Crafting with precision they're the artisans 
Their words etched deep, like ancient talismans

Ever vibe to a verse that...
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Categories: talismans, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Tears are immortal endless Messages

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Tears are not just drops
That fall from the eyes 
Tears are messages
Were written with an encrypted language 
And need deciphering

Tears are not just drops
That fall from the eyes 
Tears...
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Categories: talismans, arabic, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCelestial Gaze

...Ballads and candles of lyrical light
in stemmed yearning

breezes of ethereal pearl

shimmering translucence 
in a velvety damask

A celestial serenade ~
glittering gold, a halo ...
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Categories: talismans, appreciation, sky,
Form: Free verse

Oak

...
"Oak" 

The guardians
stood around and 
shook their heads

great thoughts 
quivering 
from the ground, roots up, 

as if to walk 
confidently 
with great armies

y...
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Categories: talismans, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTalismans

...The
imagined force is recast and concentrated into an inorganic
material.

Intentional,
possessing the owner's future with satisfying
charisma.

The
talisman, as some are known t...
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Categories: talismans, blessing, future, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Other

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