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Life Wasteland Poems

These Life Wasteland poems are examples of Wasteland poems about Life. These are the best examples of Wasteland Life 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 III of III
From ruined halls of a corrupt little apartment 
I flee with my children, trailing after me 
No more the hard hand of hate 
On my...

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Categories: wasteland, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,

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,



Wasteland
My mind is a toxic wasteland
Void of emotion
Yet also flooded with them
Sometimes i feel nothing
Sometimes i feel everything
And sometimes i don't know what i feel
I...

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Categories: wasteland, cry, dark, deep, depression,

Premium Member Winds of a Frozen Wasteland
Winds of a Frozen Wasteland

Winds blowing down the mountain silver capped so cold, 
Howling fiercely with a herculean ferocity rarely ever seen. 
 
A cold...

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Categories: wasteland, allegory, analogy, god, heaven,

Premium Member Winds of a Frozen Wasteland
Winds blowing down the mountain silver capped so cold, 
Howling fiercely with a herculean ferocity rarely ever seen. 
 
A cold snap cuts straight and...

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Categories: wasteland, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,

Wasteland
It’s like swimming on a sea of glass,
Trying to get rid of my past.
It’s like breathing on the moon,
A repetitive doom.
Haunted by the guilt,
Paralyzed by...

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Categories: wasteland, loss, pain, youth,

Skeletal Wasteland
Human wreckage
Skeletal wasteland
Void of emotions
Echoes... vague-
Shadow boxing
In darkness
With ghosts....

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Categories: wasteland, life, lost,

Wasteland
The years of our youth,
Spent behind the bottles of booze;
Behind the booths and the bars,
Behind these dark red scars.
The siren warned of this life,
But the...

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Categories: wasteland, addiction, adventure, conflict, confusion,

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,

The Real Wasteland
The poet says that war is a wasteland.
But there is a crueller breeding.

Where those who drink coffee
And breathe the secondary smoke of their lovers
And drink...

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Categories: wasteland, christian,

Wasteland
Across the icy wasteland, wind whistles
In low tones, tearing bits of warmth from
My weary walking soul. Softly but surely
I tread through frozen fields, trembling
With cold...

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Categories: wasteland, depression, life, relationship, religion,

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,


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