Wreaked Poems

Premium Memberthe ruby spires

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there, among those Ruby Spires
        stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
            red winds cut skin, heaven-kissed
    much too cold for hellish fires ...

worlds and suns behind us, then
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Categories: wreaked, adventure, analogy, appreciation, science
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

They Cried Out To Their Maker

...And the children cried out to their Maker
Bless us Lord, we receive Your loving peace
They all clamered  'round about Him
Singing and dancing, the Lord was pleased
They came upon a leper
His bod...
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Categories: wreaked, care, christian, faith, giving,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberLove's Storm

...The skies whispered
And my summer turned stormy
Winds swirled all around me
Dismantling the shelter surrounding me

No more on safe grounds
I found myself unable to run
As water rapidly filled...
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Categories: wreaked, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHindsight 20 20

...Hindsight 20 20 

I fell in love with Robert Frost, 
With his poem,”The Road Not Taken”.
Such a beautiful expression of human life. 
For there are many such intersections in our lives…
choices ...
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Categories: wreaked, change, depression, family, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo Good Health

...Jack Sprat and wife Mary, lived in a glory of lemony, chiffon days;
Like maroon birds keep on singing, until the sunset, orange phase.

They were comfy and happy, like a picnic in lavish, ...
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Categories: wreaked, color, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet


Scratched

...An email came from our hotel – 
We’ve scratched your reservation.
We weren’t that surprised and took
The news with resignation.

The hurricane wreaked havoc there
And with the loss of power,
T...
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Categories: wreaked, travel,
Form: Rhyme

The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incr...
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Categories: wreaked, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

a quest to find myself again

...The days were brighter then,
When without the slightest effort, I’d succeed in making a good impression.
Now it seems no one knows me to be “good”,
How will they? I’ve hardly provided any proof
I...
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Categories: wreaked, anxiety, depression, desire, education,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAfter the Floods

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Dark clouds loomed over the horizon
They broke loose in unprecedented force
Nature’s wrath, sudden violence acquired
It rained down as if unleashing all her fury
It was a downpour w...
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Categories: wreaked, angst, destiny, earth, rain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReverence for Earthen Things

...Quietly, I walked along the pine needled path
as a pair of larks serenaded the morning sky.
They trilled from branches high in the trees
until I sneezed from pollen flying on the breeze.
I'd ...
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Categories: wreaked, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Merry Old Soul Is Me

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With all the crap going on in the world
It's a wonder we maintain our humour
Gets difficult if you watch the 6pm news
Leaves us in a kind of a stupor

Shouldn't find it strange or unus...
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Categories: wreaked, happy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhither the Fates Carry

...Whither the Fates Carry

Anchors aweigh in 1609, Anno Domini!
A convoy of ships laden with cargo set sail
And departed Plymouth harbour to cross the Atlantic
For Jamestown, Virginia, in t...
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Categories: wreaked, fate, history, ocean, storm,
Form: Verse

The Bullingdon Club

...The Bullingdon Club

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's elite,
A secret society did convene,
A gathering of privileged retreat,
A club known as the Bullingdon team.

With tails and bow ties and...
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Categories: wreaked, adventure, angst, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Variations On a Theme

...Variations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.

Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n) 
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species...
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Categories: wreaked, abortion, absence, abuse, age,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn Dublin Gaol

...‘Tis lucky me father lies in the grave,
Than t’see the havoc I have wreaked
In the name of actin’ bold and brave,
My misadventures dastardly peaked.

In this musky gaol I am wasting ...
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Categories: wreaked, character, places, prison,
Form: Quatrain

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