Toss Away Poems

Premium MemberHeart Felt Desires

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Hopes, fears, dreams, hurts, and desires
Are all felt in heartfelt fires;
The dreams of tomorrow, the happiness, the sorrows
The fear of loving, the fear of living day to day 
All are feelings,...
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Categories: toss away, change, deep, desire, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClothed in Poetry Parchment

...I am a creature like others, taking for granted each breath,
making mistakes, some no amount of contrition can erase
which makes my faults no less dismal than death.
Unless by the mercy of my ...
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Categories: toss away, emotions, god, how i
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAre You Listening?

...Are you waiting for a word that burns your heart like so much flame?
Are you waiting for a voice of thunder calling out your name?
Are you waiting for the world to shake as God reveals His plan?
A...
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Categories: toss away, silence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAlways on the flip side

...Oh my, why am I always on the flip side?
Fleeing from hope, slipping down the slide.
In moonshine glow, seldom in sunshine bright.
Always in the consequence of negativity's plight.

My joy and l...
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Categories: toss away, cheer up, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberProblems in Choosing

...between cow or goat
I would choose goat
loving my horns
using them to toss away my enemies

between tree or rock
I would have a problem
I love them both
especially cottonwoods and mica

bet...
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Categories: toss away, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse


A Mother's Prayer

...The present darkness threatens.
Why can’t I see the light?
And yet my faith still lingers
Like a flame of candlelight.
The weakened short wick struggles
And nearly smothers out
While prayers of...
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Categories: toss away, anxiety, christian, faith, mother
Form: Rhyme

Gambling On Love

...You are my addictive habit
Your love comes--I have to grab it
I really need an intervention
Leading to a conversation
About the way you hooked me in
Now each day I'm gamblin'
That my heart will...
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Categories: toss away, future, games, hope, journey,
Form: Rhyme

Powerless

...Time and time again I fight
To make what's wrong into a right
But though I try and give it my all
I'm powerless and feel so small

The world is burning outside my window
But I have memories as ...
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Categories: toss away, anxiety, corruption, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme

if you go down to the park today

...If you go down to the park today,
You will not find an educated tramp in your way,
Wanting to pass the time of day.

Park benches free of sleeping tramps all day,
No newspapers with yesterday's ...
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Categories: toss away, addiction, allusion, analogy, break
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberDon'T Hate the Player

...Of when I play a game,
That most are prone to play,
We, players have the same,
Intent to win the day.

Sometimes the game is fun,
The rules are fair and just,
We win the game as one,
And feel...
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Categories: toss away, games,
Form: Rhyme

Waiting For Me

...I shall cloak myself in an illusion. 

So that I will no longer be blank with no solution. 

I am waiting to pretend. 

That this punishment has caused me to upend. 

I promise to toss away m...
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Categories: toss away, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBe You

...Be You
wring out hurts
toss away regrets
wave griefs goodbye
Be the ultimate you!
enhance your talents
live each day as if it is your last day
for it might be...
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Categories: toss away, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Look Real Pretty

.... for public domain

Look Real Pretty
(Short song)

We're not here to look real pretty.
We work hard and we get dirty.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

We're up and at 'em 'round four thirty,
chorin' up ...
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Categories: toss away, fun, simple,
Form: Rhyme

Cast Away

...cast away this
little poem
beyond the cold brook

cast away the
fairy tale
from a children’s book

toss away this
silly dream
from the dead of night

toss away the
lovely girl
from your...
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Categories: toss away, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRetribution Is Not My Dog

...Retribution is not my dog

No bone- no contrition

just another child

who does not listen

nor pay attention.

 

Karma please let um slide

i really ain't mad ...

life has beat um ...
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Categories: toss away, funny,
Form: Cinquain

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