Toning Poems

Premium MemberPhoenix Arizona

...I have some fruit trees in my backyard. 
Cooler dawns we ripely say hello, sweet
and sour occasions~ the lemons you know.

With a little cooperation, fertilizer, a bit
more water when dry, I fin...
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Categories: toning, environment, garden, july, places,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMama Said Mama Said

...______________________________________________________________
        It still hurting alot
    Mother, it hurts so much 
methinks my head is about to, I can
fathom that thought of my head will ...
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Categories: toning, mother son,
Form: Shape


Premium MemberWhy The Wild Flowers Grow

...I sense a kinship
(why the Wild Flowers grow)

how wildly they grow
freely they grow

unkempt fields

Spring's showery quench    

seeming no care of pruning -- 

Sun the selfless charge ...
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Categories: toning, caregiving, christian, devotion, garden,
Form: Free verse

Old People Sounds

...It begins every day
with strange sounds I would say
rising up, to a mornings sun rays.

There is cracking and creaking
and parts even squeaking
strange music my bones seem to play.

There is ...
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Categories: toning, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAn Intimate Message From God To You Part Two and Collections

...I am also the Father who comforts you in all  of your troubles.  2 Corinthians 1:3-4
When you are broken hearted, I am close to  you.  Psalm 34:18  As a shepherd 
carries a lamb, I have carried you...
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Categories: toning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative


Premium MemberLight Skinned

...Light skin, fair skin
All clamoured for by 
Creams to the rescue
Fading creams, toning creams
All bleaching creams

Women and men, old and young
all clamouring for light skin.
Looks enhancers...
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Categories: toning, africa, color, mental health,
Form: Free verse

My Focus

...It's all in my eyes
What you see is no disguise

My intent is so sincere
I'm aiming and shooting without fear

My energy is indefatigable
I can meet night with day and still be excitable

In...
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Categories: toning, confidence, courage, devotion, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberWild Willow Tears

...Wild willow tears
A poignant elegy to ecstasy
weeping as if embraced by a light breeze
Suspended in a sad splash of water

Her eyes drooped
regarded the aqua pond
There are willows...
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Categories: toning, analogy, bereavement, tree,
Form: Metrical Tale

Naira

...Naira
Naira
 OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF - NativePen  
TIME OF THOUGHT- 12:45am 
DATE OF THOUGHT-8/05)2019

Naira

Oh Naira !! 
Gone are the days of your radiant gleam

Now a tattered fabric, t...
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Categories: toning, 7th grade, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOff Kilter

...Do we ever get to expose the real person inside?
When the layers of sub diversion and control create our disguise.

Do we ever stop toning and shaping our feel of what’s wrong or right?
So many i...
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Categories: toning, age, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

Worth Noting

...5/9/22

Let me change my toning
Skills mastered and others still honing
I am not droning
People to this day passed away from a stoning
Continually condoning
With no cease to cloning
It's beco...
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Categories: toning, dark, death, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Miracle of Colours

...The colours of arts
Blending of colours
To form new colours
New perspectives
A miracle
A rainbow of colours to choose
Not only for painting pictures
Life is also a choice of colours
A sort of...
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Categories: toning, color, feelings, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse

Daily Delirium

...I closed the car door and stood there looking out the window of the parking lot, third floor, cigarette in my mouth and the city running in the fog. there is no day that looks better than this. they ...
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Categories: toning, life, mirror, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberPlane Aggrivating

...one sip on
a midflight wearied...
- as -
my eyes wandered
seeked and worried...
- over -
any chance at
that washroom door...
- so -
while i knotted my calm
no leak came passing
- with -
t...
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Categories: toning, angst, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAmid Falling Leaves

...Amid falling leaves, 
     Beneath the rasping trees,
          Nature sounds
               A little groggy with sleep. 

Proud and defiant wind 
     Puffs its lips 
          Out with i...
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Categories: toning, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse

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