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Unshielded Poems - Poems about Unshielded

Premium Member Barbarossa I
...When giants hide their heads beneath the sand, the body lies unshielded from the Sun. ‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand the winds of war that nothing will out run. ‘Tis opportune for those ......

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Categories: unshielded, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member In the heart of worlds, a whisper sneaks
...In the heart of worlds, a whisper sneaks, "We fear love," a question that ripples the calm, We desire closeness, a sweet plunge into the verdure of the soul, Yet doubt surrounds us when ......

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Categories: unshielded, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



First Sunday
...The first Sunday I knew emptiness, The day midnight opened its door, With me, this hollow has stayed, A symphony that has intermittently played. Unshielded I was for this, Halted it had me in......

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Categories: unshielded, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The World At Peace
...Soft skies of blue and ivory Circling the planet of light and ebony Colored eyes enthralled by the cold of the night Waving lightning mantled by fright Winds embracing acquiescent bodies so b......

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Categories: unshielded, faith, life, light, seasons,
Form: Imagism
Aficionado
...Aficionados here and there, People craft, lead and build. Those traders are teasers of the wind, Sail and sail, draft and rate, Be your own rafter till you lead the machines. Magician of ......

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Categories: unshielded, allusion, art, imagination, magic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Whispers Shared
...Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder A gentle firm touch Ancient fingers stretching awake And for that moment in time, I receive you My body marinates in your history, Delicacies, trauma, an......

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Categories: unshielded, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Insecurities
...Unshielded when the night curtains fall. In the dark room and alone, when I finally give in in exhaustion. Still in fear that they'd beat me to death. But I always wake up the following day......

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Categories: unshielded, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Banish Me To the Bookshop
...BANISH ME TO THE BOOKSHOP Chain me, so I can roam. Lock me away in this bower. Banish me to the bookshop - i’ll enjoy this affair for hours! First editions recline behind smudg......

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Categories: unshielded, books,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Autumn Leaves
...Autumn Leaves A children’s chorus opens with “Get Your Kicks On Route 66” bringing some to smile or lip lyrics. Others, who are closer to the intersection, Are long since past the range of rece......

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Categories: unshielded, goodbye, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Celebratory Sigh
...The lavender clouds, lowered, like a fluffy blanket on top the eaglets’ ledge. Its loblolly pine lingers on the palate of the tongue ......

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Categories: unshielded, bird,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Reconstruction
...Lincoln never imagined today’s white victim zeitgeist, pouting persecuted supremacists, their clenched jaws and fists. Civil war rages in limbic memory. Encoded somewhere, the panic attacks ......

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Categories: unshielded, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form: Political Verse
The Author of All Things Watches Over Me
...My connection to infinitive existance has been numbed from the very experiences written to ensure enlightenment for which my soul searches lifetimes repeated... As the distance measured by complic......

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Categories: unshielded, deep, spiritual, universe,
Form: Epic
The Next Day
... Yesterday ... a lifetime of romantic dreams unfulfilled Love to me was only silver screen cinematically real My heart held no one close, the arms of acquaintances framed an empty repose......

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Categories: unshielded, hope, love, relationship, romance,
Form: Free verse
Weary Soul
...this poem is my take on weary blues by langston hughes Langston hughes truly was a great poet and one of the best ever! Bombilating a snappy euphony rhyme Fingers crackling against palm and ti......

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Categories: unshielded, art, black african american,
Form: Carpe Diem
Egburegbu With Teeth
...Make me the food of the future, An Egburegbu soup with teeth and mouth; So that I can unveil the butterfly's teeth, The palm of the sea can have a taste also, That Egburegbu like the tears of the......

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Categories: unshielded, africa, art,
Form: Free verse

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