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Fear Wasteland Poems

These Fear Wasteland poems are examples of Wasteland poems about Fear. These are the best examples of Wasteland Fear poems written by international poets.


Excise Exercise 2: In a Wasteland
Excise Exercise 2:

In a wasteland
decision is a choice. 
Faced with Life or Death
makes progress clear-
What are the options? 
Face the Fear of both. 
One brutal...

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Categories: wasteland, courage, endurance, faith,



Woman of the Wasteland Ii of Iii
There he sits that monstrous hypocrite. There he dwells as I wash these dishes, his dishes. There he slouches, watching his games, his news, his...

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Categories: wasteland, absence, abuse, allegory, allusion,

Woman of the Wasteland I of III
As I wash these dishes. 
I wash the wishes 
from these tired and ruined hands. 

I look out into the street 
with a thousand yard...

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Categories: wasteland, abuse, allegory, analogy, angst,

Wasteland of Dreams
There at the back 
of my mind like an elusive form…
Out of focus a blur in my inner reality 
never dreamt in nightmares 
waiting to...

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Categories: wasteland, adventure, allegory, allusion, angst,

The Wasteland of Mist
Always remember the times we spent
Sometimes, the past is best left unsaid
Always remember to accept we are sinners and need to repent
Just know the future...

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Categories: wasteland, angst, emotions, endurance,



Premium Member Wasteland
Harsh is the day, harsh is the night;
Dry and putrid, dry and decay;
Stench in the clay, stench in the sight;
Life most rancid, life on display.


Hopeless...

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Categories: wasteland, betrayal,

Weathered Wasteland
Over in the weathered wasteland.
Where angels fear to dwell.
Are understanding's no one can understand.
And you swear that you're in hell.

The mountains stand before you.
Too high...

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Categories: wasteland, discrimination, introspection,

The Wasteland -Part 2-
A long time passes and I am still here
Silently insulting, brutally weeping
But then I lift my head from the ground
To see him standing there
Towering over...

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Categories: wasteland, adventure, allegory, angst, art,

The Wasteland -Part 1-
How can one express the baffling depths of obscurity?
How can one behold to open the shafts of the mind?
I have never been able to solve...

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Categories: wasteland, adventure, allegory, angst, art,

Wasteland
I flip the TV channels –
It’s the nightly thing to do;
But the only shows worth watching
Are reruns of SVU.

When there were seven stations,
There was always...

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Categories: wasteland, introspection, family, family,

Littering the Wasteland
When it’s all for being something
There’s nowhere left to realise
That everything is done against us
And everyone still has to hide

In their shallow reconnections
In their eyes...

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Categories: wasteland, faith, inspirational, life, people,

Deserted Wasteland
Life invades the truth.
Who cares?
The night was thin,
my eyes will search for stars. 
Now pain travels,
backward from a smile? 
A myth unfolds the terror,
of infinite...

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Categories: wasteland, life, peace, people, philosophy,

Wasteland
What could I positively say but my heart is a wasteland? 
Spat on, crapped on, used up and thrown out.
So used that it's barren.
My mind...

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Categories: wasteland, black african american, introspection,


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