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Witness Poems - Poems about Witness

Premium Member WITNESS PROTECTION FOR DUMMIES
BEING AN FBI INFORMANT WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FOR THE FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CHICAGO HAD BEGUN TO TRIGGER UNWANTED EMOTIONS AS I SAT BEHIND MAROON DRAPES PANTING CIRO GARGANO ARSON MURDERER OF 9 HIRED HIS STRIPPER TO BREAK INTO MY HOME READ PAGES IN MY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL THIS EXPOSED HIM...

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Categories: witness, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Liberty’s fracture braided through its fibers a wound that never quite...

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Categories: witness, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member BLESSED WITNESS-
Blessed witness Come to me my child Father says to me in a still voice You're my mine beloved I created you from heaven Sent you down to earth Through a spiritual tunnel Grew within a womb of your mother Father fertile the egg of mama You'll incubate inside mother's womb Until you emerge Spirit first encased in flesh Before during and after, past, present...

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Categories: witness, analogy, celebration, creation, devotion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fireflying
Through dusk’s shadows they soar, flickering evening lights, flies flashing cold fire, bugs unleashing lightning, micro-luminescent, miniscule miracles. Though fainter than candles, clustered firefly flocks flash brighter than stars in summer night skies, sparking joyous wonder, fluttering till sunrise. In our darkened world, can we shine like them, glimmering in the gloom, gifting goodness and hope for all those who grieve until a new dawn? (First published in Feed the Holy, 19 March...

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Categories: witness, dark, hope, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my feelings about witness protection
witness protection I don’t think I could do it no contact ever you can’t call your mom cannot let your best friend know where you are will never hear their voices again cannot send them a letter there is no time to say goodbye to grandma I hope that I never witness a murder...

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Categories: witness, life,
Form: Free verse



Cryptic Signs
Now, I don’t know why, he left without a word, returned from the grave, only to walk a road I could not follow. Someone must have held his name closer, spoken in a language I could not hear. I watch them exchange unspoken truths, a passerby in their quiet communion. And now, I don’t know why, she left without a word, came back from the...

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Categories: witness, grief, psychological, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Some Wounds Want Witness
My darkest needs never beg forgiveness— they crave a mirror. One that fogs with your touch, not your abandon. ...

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Categories: witness, anxiety, courage, dark, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The witness
Stalked by thought, we chose to be nonchalant, by relinquishing belief of ownership, looking at these images, as ephemeral wisps of smoke, appearing and then disappearing, no different from waves of the ocean. Bereft of thought, all that which then remains, is formless presence poised in the void, as pure awareness self-aware, to which form is an object, from outside looking in at the senses five and lower mind; instruments for our...

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Categories: witness, silence, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member What does it mean to witness suffering and feel it burn inside you
What does it mean to witness suffering and feel it burn inside you, not as gentle empathy, but as a deep-rooted and screaming indictment? There is a boy who carries cement as I carry metaphors — without question, without choice, without allowing himself the luxury of another option, only with a resignation sculpted in silence. He is not a...

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Categories: witness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
the things we see-II: River's Diary
March, 2025 She walked past me today. Her gaze hollow, her pace a ghost. I can see crimson threads weaving down her arms— not gloves, no. I think she’s going to the Cliff. I wonder if she’ll return. Most never did. April, 2025 She sat at the bank all day and stared at my ripples— It is what I’m proud of the most. I tried to sing for...

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Categories: witness, death,
Form: Other
the things we see-I: Monologue of a Cliff
March, 2025 She visited today, I’ve seen her kind— in a silk white dress, and a pair of scarlet lace gloves. Something soaked my sparse grass. Tear or blood? I’ve never learnt the difference. April, 2025 Her steps were particularly unstable tonight. We watched the tides together, sometimes I envy how they flow— No tears were shed tonight. (A tragedy for my grass, but good for her) I wish she...

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Categories: witness, death,
Form: Other
Jesus Change The World
Knock, knock can I come in? Jesus came to bear witness to His life He rose from the barren tomb He rose to a better and more beautiful life God the Father watched over His Son He was pleased Jesus came to love and serve Jesus won't forget His Father's words Go My Son and change the world...

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Categories: witness, christian, faith, world,
Form: Rhyme
The day a poet didn’t die-II: The witness
She’s at it again. Wasting my ink staging yet another death. I draft her crimson melodramas with third-hand metaphors as she sips on ‘hope’ like tonic laced with rust and wears ‘moor’ like thrift-store perfume. I thread her June into forced sonnets (poor things), before her gin drowned the meter in proofed regret. Even a pen gets impatient. Sometimes she pauses, as though it might save her— I...

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Categories: witness, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Spring Haiku 11
spring haiku 11 sprinkles of spring shine roses unfurl their blossoms… the sky is witness ...

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Categories: witness, appreciation, beauty, nature, rose,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Spring Hiku 7
Spring Hiku 7 cherry blossoms shine ...

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Categories: witness, appreciation, moon, spring,
Form: Haiku

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