Tradegy Poems

So Much More Then Before

...So this is it
Where I take my place
In these ever changing seasons
As I turn I learn where it all went wrong
Where time cut me so deep
In that moment of judgement
I ran away
I took a place tha...
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Categories: tradegy, anxiety, fear, how i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Scottish Tradegy

...Douglas Moffatt went to Dumfries
To try to find some work
Though he didn't have a job
He had never been known to shirk

There he saw Mary Port
A very pretty girl
Whose lovely smile delighted h...
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Categories: tradegy, death, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme


Escaping Generational Curses

...Who am I but another fool of scorn?
With what armor did the fates provide me?

A pawn am I to the house I was born.
Double the sight helps not blind eyes to see.

Believed not I the tradegy tha...
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Categories: tradegy, change, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme

Love

...Love is like a shinning light
That can never be quenched with hatred even at night.

Love is like a sweet Melody
That makes folks banish from their days of tradegy to comedy

Love no virus
To ...
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Categories: tradegy, art, beautiful, bible, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBalanced

...until you send for me
until you see
me
walking on egg shells
one whisper away 
from this glass house
crashing down
until you re-plant 
me
and until you
re-anchor me, re-center me
h---, jus...
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Categories: tradegy, conflict,
Form: Free verse


Tradegy

...It is with a heavy heart, I daily live with visible signs of regret.

I've tried desperately hard to be a valued asset.  

I've been beaten from within & without, by our emotions & unsafe streets...
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Categories: tradegy, children, courage, education, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Will Not Bow

...Will Not Bow

Having inner strength comes with a price, as you will see I've had to roll the dice, but with sweat upon brow, you'll see i didn't bow.

I have had a struggle for two, and witnessed...
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Categories: tradegy, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Start For Sunday

...Rainbow like reflection in the wispy jet clouds against periwinkle blue morning
sky.  Jets going where? One going in an unusual direction across one in the set 
pattern of travel. Since the lat...
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Categories: tradegy, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Moon Can You Hear Me Tonight

...Moon Can You Hear Me Tonight
 Night seems to bring out thoughts daylight helps to hide,
 Oh Moon, you shine so wonderful please don't hide. 
Moon, my love, stars must envy you and your light,
 as oth...
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Categories: tradegy, confusion, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend, loss,
Form: Rhyme

How Do I Escape

...How do I escape my life of misery. Do I run away or do I hide away. None of my 
choices seem feasible because where  can I go to escape tradegy or how conceal 
could I be  so that no one can see me...
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Categories: tradegy, death, depression, lifelife,
Form: Personification

Tradegy and Disaster

...There’s a thing about disaster
Makes us act as we should
All working together
Differences aside
Something about when tragedy strikes
We all pull together
Thousands become one
Funny how hate fa...
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Categories: tradegy, introspection, natural disasters, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThree People Touched By Tradegy

...Jimmy Waters was quite a precocious young man
School marm a mentor who understands
Parents who love him to them he is grand
In the inner city not totally safe

School marm a mentor who understan...
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Categories: tradegy, black african american, death,
Form: Pantoum

Life Lost (Dedicated To Cory C and Corey P)

...Like a bullet flying by
You flipped your car many times
Silver Car,
Shattered glass lay in the way
Shattered dreams thrown away

People lined the road where you wrecked
And made a cross in you...
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Categories: tradegy, loss, sad, sympathy
Form: I do not know?

Field of Dreams

...There we were the four of us sitting upon the woods edge.
                                                  Breaking all the rules being little fools.
                          We thought we were s...
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Categories: tradegy, childhood, friendship,
Form: I do not know?

The Devils Playground

...Music Pumping

Lights Flashing

Drinks Passing

Drugs Calling 

Pride Growing

Love Leaving

People Cheating

Hearts Longing

Eyes Glowing

Evil Prowling

Clocks ticking

Mornin...
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Categories: tradegy, life, people, recovery from...,
Form: Bio

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