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Typecast Poems - Poems about Typecast

Fear Only Fear

...Afraid to ask
Afraid to cast
Afraid to hear
Afraid of jeer

Fear is delaying truth
Fear is growing from youth
Fear is reliving the past
Fear is irrational typecast

Asking diffuses fear
Ta...
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Categories: typecast, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEarth Interval

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     Typecast pivot rips past apart
     Scars inflicted by the furnace 
     Scatter derma with war stars
     Astronomy faraway magnifies 
     Little shards of light filaments
     Filter...
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Categories: typecast, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPools amassed

...I formed in the heavens; they built me in a pure overcast
Concrete looks far too weak to break my fallings contrast
All flower petals decreed a landscape grown to everlast
I will nurture them; in ...
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Categories: typecast, flower, growth, rain, spring,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Membercountry living

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an actor he was typecast

a soldier hit by a blast

but as of today

he's out mowing hay

farming a dramatic past.
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Categories: typecast, age, autumn, farm, happiness,
Form: Limerick

Labyrinth of Sighs

...Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die 
An emboldened range ...
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Categories: typecast, life,
Form: Rhyme



Overzealousness and Assiduousness

...Overzealousness and assiduousness...

now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decre...
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Categories: typecast, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

The Sea Goats Allegory

...Aquarium realms
of anointed fools
masquerade as sensibility

Typecast foolscap
tired typewriters ribbons
don't have a prolonged head

Between the streets
where the drunkard
spins his tales
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Categories: typecast, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberImminent Iceberg

...imminent iceberg is inching closer
to the passengers on board
catastrophe typecast...
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Categories: typecast, angst,
Form: Kimo

Premium MemberTypecast Kin

...by the sea on shore
birds squawk squabble and jostle
feathered typecast kin...
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Categories: typecast, beach, best friend, bird,
Form: Haiku

The Case of a Stolen Diamond

...It was noon when I got the call
Jewelry store robbed at the mall
It was a young man, very tall
Spoke with a drawl   Spoke with a drawl

In the store, I'd been permitted
Where a theft had been c...
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Categories: typecast, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDramaturge

...I portrayed the knave of hearts again,
A role it would seem I was made for.
I ventured off script and silenced my critics
By drinking them under the table.

Classically trained in the tavern art...
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Categories: typecast, allegory, drink, loneliness,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTypecast

...Fathers of that era
did not hug or touch or
intimate their love.
He was the same

Did he love us, we his
kin, his blood-seed. He
did not say, yet I 
believe he did.

He was a provider, for
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Categories: typecast, father,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberTears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue

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Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
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Categories: typecast, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse

Colorless

...I am a product of my next of kin
so in their image, through evolution 
determined pigmentation of my skin
of human historic distribution,

a complexion that I am powerless 
though never shall I...
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Categories: typecast, color, history, humanity, identity,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberA Ladle of Forms Sit In the Cradle

...A Ladle of Forms Still Sit In The Cradle


A week has past
Questions were asked 
Them truly lambaste
For their lemons vast
Leaving readers aghast
In view of better typecast
The flock may hol...
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Categories: typecast, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme

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