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Thinned Poems - Poems about Thinned

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...we dressed them in thinned clouds— no lace, no hymns, just wind. innocence was light enough ......

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Categories: thinned, dark, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Other
Quill, Quahog?
...O emptiness of space, thy harpsichords. Whole? Panels out of place, looking-glasses smashed. Bitter winds, thy frost. Sickness, dole, O soul. Chaffy grain beneath the tired thresher slashed. Turm......

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Categories: thinned, creation,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



The Father of My Unborn Child
...Anger turned to joy, With the news one day, A little life was on the way. Excitement in his eyes, a spark, A future dream, a bright new start. He told his mother, and brothers too, A father’s......

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Categories: thinned, anger, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Bio
Toil Turmoil
...Thought, with intelligence? When? How about the proof? Setting fire to where and when? Devil, art aloof? Fire inspiration, thy pun. What to do for fun? Good sense, laddie, and reason! Fly no......

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Categories: thinned, sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to my brown bear
...You were there before memory. Before voices had names, before light had meaning you were there. Brown as warm bread, soft as a breath held in sleep, you waited. And I held you. You wer......

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Categories: thinned, 10th grade, emotions, growth,
Form: Ode



It’s Good To Be
...Its good to be done With it We sail In west In less, form And more loss Of warmth Cinders escape Hatch Before the irish write Let the british wine Remove the winds Replace the legs Perha......

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Categories: thinned, america, boat, england,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Cardinals
...Fresh snowflakes are gently falling from the sky Blanketing the ground white, no longer brown and dry The snow topped bird feeders are now swaying in the wind And appear to be almost empty with th......

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Categories: thinned, beautiful, bird, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme
The Missing Collar
...The sun does arise, On the valley sweet, The birds & pups wise, Call our kits to meet. The hoots & hollers, Sound loud for miles; Yet! Amiss is one collar, Lone in the Sky Isles. The......

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Categories: thinned, animal, cat, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Some Final Thoughts for 2024
...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m......

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Categories: thinned, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose
The Journey
...The Journey The journey had been long, the path had been narrow, the afternoon was shortening and my destination crept closer. I walked on. The path still strolled ahead of me and no matt......

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Categories: thinned, family, imagery, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Lone Tree
...The Lone Tree The autumn day had been muffled up in thick scarf and rainproof jacket until darkness, countryside darkness, clambered gradually over the horizon; silence, stillness obediently a......

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Categories: thinned, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Player's Lament
...In cozy sweaters, played with fire, While smoke rings danced up high and higher; Seven years of warmth I'd known, Till her spark made me her own. Through Italy, in knitted threads, While cigar......

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Categories: thinned, betrayal, crazy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Haunted Home
...I wanted so badly to know every darkened piece of coal beneath your sooted mantle See for myself how every well lit pane Became a sunlit stage Where the glittered dust danced so graceful How ......

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Categories: thinned, life, love hurts, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shikata ga nai
...In an old bus, patience thinned by midnight As bitterness drifted long, feeling bleak Wiping hours with restless air in dark light Not a robin cooed through skyline's mystique Findi......

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Categories: thinned, change, character,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Last Day
...Gene stood. Skyscraper demanding. Cold steel. Thirty-five hard years. Over now. Just like that. Corrugated box. Family photo. Timex watch. Bitter coffee. Stale sweat. He walked out. Sun blaze. ......

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Categories: thinned, grief, jobs, loss, psychological,
Form: Narrative

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