Traversed Poems

Beauty Wasted

...A visage of perfection, a form divine,
Yet, in the pursuit of wealth, your beauty's declined,
You've traversed paths of passion, with many a soul,
Sleeping with strangers, your beauty's lost its g...
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Categories: traversed, beauty, character,
Form: Free verse

Khia's Crusade

...Saracen princess, 

Blackened corridors bathed in honey hold you in high esteem as you dance in flickers, eyes raising the death toll every time you envision your body against your next casualty. I...
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Categories: traversed, desire, family, metaphor, military,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPlausible Math History

...A traveler in ancient Greece
traversed a broad town square.
A bottle of mead was waiting there. 
He considered the flight of geese,

and those brimming honey-wine kegs.
He was, at first, at qui...
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Categories: traversed, humor, math,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWE SEE LONDON DAY 4

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After I woke up and went out to our little balcony to write…
a ladybug landed on my computer and decided there to stay
As she traversed the perimeter of my computer…
I knew it was going to be gr...
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Categories: traversed, travel,
Form: Rhyme

His Sunset Years

...   in his sunset years he daily 
traversed a mile to smile
waiting  
             w a t c h i n g 

A L E R T

the lilt of phantomic voice to 
O P E N   his 

                 ...
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Categories: traversed, allusion, change, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberShe Trusted the Stars

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She placed her dreams in starshine's bright design 
where she believed the galaxy would guard them
from incidents and accidents that might shard them. 
She trusted stars to lifelong harmoniz...
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Categories: traversed, betrayal, cry, depression, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPath of Contemplation a Song

...I walked a long path today. Off in the woods nearby.

My dogs walked with me, and took side trails on the
sly.
 
A little trail becomes a deer trail, through the
eucalyptus and pine

The oxal...
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Categories: traversed, growth, journey,
Form: Lyric

an utterly useless tale

...An utterly Useless Tale

On a big round oak table in a living room, a vase, in its small crack, lived two house ants. They were sitting outside,  considering a box of matches on the tabletop. 
“if...
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Categories: traversed, absence, abuse, age, anti
Form: ABC

Premium MemberWhere Silence Listens

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A snow-capped mountain where nobody goes;
             a forest thick with foliage and trees;
      a river which meanders as it flows
               through spaces that nobody likely sees;
an ...
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Categories: traversed, silence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoint Of No Return

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Across the wandering life’s changing dynamic landscape,
I traversed following the footprints of destiny
the tortuous pathway in the undulating topography,
that winded for me, tracking the trai...
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Categories: traversed, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

the end of everything

...The end of everything

The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been
the master of the vessel, a friendship between the animat...
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Categories: traversed, age, art, books, break
Form: ABC

My Incubus

...Pounding at the resonant head 
of my chest—he of hunger 
latches his fangs just beneath my jaw—
not to sever silence, but to pummel poison.
Tissue parts with wet reluctance,
he with need more th...
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Categories: traversed, anxiety, change, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Journey of the Craftsman

...Raised by his grandmother,
He understood the depth of life at a young age,
He delved deeper into existence as he turned each page,
Life was like a book before him.

He often asked intriguing que...
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Categories: traversed, growing up, life,
Form: Rhyme

MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES

...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES 

Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness 
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies 
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
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Categories: traversed, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme

Rambling Poet

...Being forced to move places,
Because I have no control.
It shows how stuck I am;
How reliant I am;
How not free I am.
I am seventeen, feels like I could be ten.
Holed up in buildings,
Like a d...
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Categories: traversed, environment, family, freedom, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

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