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Wastelands Poems - Poems about Wastelands


Wastelands
Do I think you can silence a poem In a word the answer is NO Do I think you can bridle a passion You’d be better served melting a stone Do I think you can marry tomorrow Still married to yesterday’s pain Do I think you can joyously wander Locked in step — with the devil again (The New Room: February, 2025) ...

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Categories: wastelands, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Wastelands
What good comes there from love at all if no one feels the flame If no one knows that there abides such joy inside a heart What...

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Categories: wastelands, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Again Facing the Wastelands
In the chaos I was born, blue, cold, alone. the sickness of the air blistering my lungs with the stench of life. The infections rotting my flesh eating away the only thing I can call mine. Days of unfortunate chance, callousing and ripping away at my once bright soul. Through faith I lost everything and...

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Categories: wastelands, abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Ah Those Eyes
I wanted this How'd the problems arise? She sits there with sadness In those forlorn eyes But it's not really sadness that I see What she's actually doing is pitying me They move to the wall I sit there in inexplicable shame Waiting for those damn eyes to look at me again Those loves gone eyes, wastelands Floor, door and then the ceiling Then back...

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Categories: wastelands, hurt, lost love, pride,
Form: Rhyme
The Wastelands
The sun reached down Almost as if to the ground Bleaching the skulls and the bones Wind rustled, rustled the ash Gently kissing the faces of the dead Parting with a sorrow it should be said Nevermore would the faces rise It was the end of earth What touched the sky Dauntless I set ‘cross the land A grim determination set Fractious in its demands A final...

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Categories: wastelands, sad, science, science fiction,
Form: Free verse



Upon Now Gardened Wastelands
We two amidst the wastelands walked Where heroes fell and mad ghosts leapt. There slaughtered angels we beheld With trembling eyelids moist yet brave, Alone, so drear the gathering Dark! And you, small vessel, cracked with grief- By storm,no less assailed... From haunted trails through orchards thorns, Their bitter fruit by tears well suckled, We'd tarried toiled and tasted much At Sorrow's depthless winepress, 'Til chanced...

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Categories: wastelands, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Imagism

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