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Warpaint Poems - Poems about Warpaint


The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
... "The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise" They called her the tree hugger, her forest was full of trees that watched silently, they had no mouth to speak, rustling the......

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Categories: warpaint, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Calamine Warpaint
...'*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' sunrise warms my face the morning's first visitor alights on a cheek streaked with calamine warpaint my day begins with murder '*' '*' ......

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Categories: warpaint, morning, murder,
Form: Tanka



Beyond G
...He parks, cuts the engine, sits for a moment, headlights dimming. He tries to rationalize why he is here, why he is still racing to be free of his own gravity. The store is a low level spaceship......

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Categories: warpaint, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Warpaint
...Today I took off the war paint Laid down the mask And showed my face to the world Not the face of my dreams Not the smooth, unmarked skin of my youth Not the face that you loved When we first......

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Categories: warpaint, beauty, self, women,
Form: Free verse
Happily Ever After
...I’ve cried tears so heavy they left track marks on my cheeks, And I’ve loved so deeply that Ive lost myself, That’s my curse my cross to bare, No half measures No ing about It’s all or nothing ......

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Categories: warpaint, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Colour Study
...what colour do we wanna look at? red, of course, like the doorway i knew in childhood like the blood whispering through the pipes of an egret it doesn’t matter yawning voice draining unconscious ......

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Categories: warpaint, color, depression, dream, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Punctuated In Time
...Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore Nay! I do not wish to see... Past hyphens and inverted commas Lies and more catastrophe Ambidextrous clock with appalling brevity The second ha......

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Categories: warpaint, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Apache Warriors
...Deep in the woods I can hear a twig snap A bird goes into flight that was sitting on a limb beside me And it just so happens that right now we are at war with another tribe But I must remember the cr......

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Categories: warpaint, society, soldier,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things