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Tarnish Poems - Poems about Tarnish

Solitude
...In a world where dreams dissolve to dust, Where shining words now tarnish, rust, Ideals once winged with hope and fire Fall to truth stripped of desire. Gone are those who held you near, Their......

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Categories: tarnish, dark, memory, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Elegy of the Shattered Mirror
...In halls where silence once held sway, A storm did breach the calm of day. A voice, unbidden, harsh and cold, Unfurled its tale, its judgment bold. It spoke of faults unseen, unfound, Its echo......

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Categories: tarnish, 1st grade, career, character,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Consequences of Stealing
... When you steal, it’s more than an object you take— You sever a thread in the soul you forsake. That bracelet? A gift from a mother now gone. That wallet? A dream that someone leaned on. ......

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Categories: tarnish, anger, betrayal, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Stranger Danger
...I like that we’re strangers That our late night intimate fights Are actually just late nights of random conversations with a random stranger The internet came with a whole lot of bad but surely ......

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Categories: tarnish, internet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fierce Review
..."Fierce Review" Hindsight reviews tells me so much of what I want to keep, change, or completely drop. My fierce review of my marriage and how my best fell short giving Doug what he earned and ......

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Categories: tarnish, confusion, courage, death, forgiveness,
Form: Prose



My Man, His it
...A mother to you, a son to me, sucking the life out of my bosom and weep in disgust when it's saggy. Men love a tempting hole to fit in, to dissolve seeds of bliss and then chymic wring it barren o......

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Categories: tarnish, abuse, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Precious
...A person's mind, Life, body, is intended/ For the person it was given to/ Not to be messed with in any ways/ In sacred gifts, we find our own/ The mind and life, a body's throne/ By God's design......

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Categories: tarnish, appreciation, beautiful, care, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Narcissistic
...In a World where mirrors lie/ And falsehoods find their stride/ The Narcissistic wanders by/ With grandeur in their eyes/ A veneer of charm and grace/ A smile that's falsely sweet/ Behind the m......

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Categories: tarnish, abuse, character, corruption, identity,
Form: Free verse
Silent Battles
...They called me a coward, said my words would hide, Too scared to face the storm, I’d run and confide. My thoughts were shadows, secrets locked tight, In silence, I fought my own ing fight. They......

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Categories: tarnish, absence, angel, anxiety, cheer
Form: I do not know?
The Hound of Sleep
...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep, Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ......

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Categories: tarnish, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of the Unspoken
...They called me a coward, said my words would hide, Too timid to face the storm, I’d run and confide. My thoughts were shadows, secrets bound tight, In the echoes of silence, I fought my own fight.......

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Categories: tarnish, 11th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Other
Premium Member Cacoethes
...I love having— hating the feeling of wanting. Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea. I steal casually, like second breaths after waking, or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s ni......

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Categories: tarnish, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance. That lying in t......

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Categories: tarnish, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
JAH CHOSEN ONE
...JAH'S Chosen ONE: This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... All praise and thanks be unto JAH. Let's go.... VERSE 1: Many at times me try cover your shame, And I no need you to do same. But you alwa......

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Categories: tarnish, adventure, allah, appreciation, birth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member WHERE DOES THE COUNTRY GO FROM HERE
...Where does the country go from here? There’s still remnants of anger, dejection and sadness Continuing to ponder this mental madness Our identity of blackness is about to come to the brink As we ......

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Categories: tarnish, america, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

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