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Wilted Echoes
Opened the doors wide, To the soft morning light, And the grey windows too, For the morning breeze. Love alone, we thought, Will teach them the 'hows' To pat-hug with gentle care, While holding them dear. Let it slide and slip away, we told our silly selves— let the slimy words go, Numb the heavy hands. Turn a little deaf today, To all the bruising noise, Turn a...

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Categories: wilted, extended metaphor, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wilted Flowers
Wilted Flowers What’s happened to Justice and speaking truth to power When people protested With a peace sign and flower Yes times are changing Evil has invaded thoughts The shifting of power In madness you’re caught Now you attack each other It seems so black and white The poor bow to the rich Things have shifted far right Neighbors fighting neighbors You believe it’s fake news Instead of...

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Categories: wilted, anxiety, betrayal, courage, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain



Long Hours and a few Dying Flowers
Long hours tick by, slow and cold As petals drop, and beauty grows old A few dying flowers, once full of grace Now wilted, faded, without a trace Of vibrancy, of life, of color bright Leaving only memories, a distant light The hours drag on, a relentless pace As beauty fades, and time takes its place Yet in the wilting, there's a strange...

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Categories: wilted, care, caregiving, character, flower,
Form: Free verse
THE BREATH OF LOST DAYS
She was there, the wilted flower of a day gone by, Hair in disarray, and eyes tender, He spoke of her with passion, like one speaks of an innocent fool, Hands trembling from having loved her blindly. Time slipped away, a faithful companion to taciturn distress, The sky weighed heavy,...

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Categories: wilted, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the shadow of a wilted evening, where busy spiders spin their fragile thoughts
In the shadow of a wilted evening, where busy spiders spin their fragile thoughts, Lacking the substance for a solid tome, losing tenure and academic appointments, They fill their purses by spreading confusion among the naive minnows, Seeing nothing but their own grimacing faces in a delirium of mirrors. Most of all, I doubt the rare and sincere ones, Masters...

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Categories: wilted, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Wilted Wings
My kinship with withdrawal and isolation goes way back. So much history shared between us To make me the person I am today. As I suppressed words and emotions, Destruction joined hands with me. I wasted all that potential, as if under influence And I left myself to deteriorate; Not to be one with the soil But to be a futile wreckage under...

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Categories: wilted, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wilted Summer Smiles
weary Deep in warm wine Outshining russet moon Glazed in the glow of honey glass Gold breeze Drifting Along the flood Of wilted summer smiles, While my sky sings in the fall of Silence...

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Categories: wilted, autumn, poetry,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Wilted Flowers
once lively they stood summer heat takes their last breath one by one they wilt 9-25-23...

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Categories: wilted, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Wilted Flower
A wild flower child Was so careless for short while. Then so suddenly Something broke her lovely smile; Withered through a fate so vile....

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Categories: wilted, addiction, death, drug, extended
Form: Tanka
A Wilted Rose
Wilted rose petals unable to attract bees. Concubine's mirror holds the reflection of gloom as she daubs rouge on wrinkles. Date: 08/19/2022 Note: For the contest (Bite Size Poem no51) by Line Gauthier. Honorable Mention...

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Categories: wilted, analogy, emotions,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Wilted
Rancid lilies stream the rim of wicker baskets like wilted soldiers rank and file Fatigued and sweaty They salute a mournful throng with dampened pistols and burnished brass. Hate every passion screaming for a drink of water ...

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Categories: wilted, flower, funeral,
Form: Free verse
The Wilted Flower
Once upon a time, In the middle of a September Along a long, winding path near the creek, I spotted the most beautiful thing. A flower that has yet to bloom, The potential of life radiated through and through. Excited was I to witness something so pure and true. Not wanting to miss its life unfold I visited the flower...

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Categories: wilted, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wilted Flowers
i paved blooming garden path to walk with you… flowers wilted waiting August 26, 2020 Syllable count : 17 Checked on howmanysyllables.com Contest : When Plans Dont Go To Plan Sponsor : Silent One...

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Categories: wilted, dream, flower, garden, lost
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Waiting Rose Wilted
The wings of hued lattice fluttered in ecstasy in the silken stream of the mesmeric morning air, sprinkling the spectrum of chromatic shower from the overturned pallet of the colorful sky. From the yonder milieu of blooming yellow wetland, a butterfly flew in with the patina of golden fervor, through the melting archway of the rainbow dreams to my enchanted garden of...

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Categories: wilted, butterfly, dream, lost love,
Form: Free verse
A Wilted Rose-Lei
is love to be a wilted rose to fade beneath the winter snows to pierce itself with its own thorn its beauty hide in death to mourn i watch it bloom from tiny seeds a spark of lust from passion bleeds unfold itself within a kiss then fade within the dying bliss December 30, 2019...

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Categories: wilted, analogy, flower, love, rose,
Form: Lay

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