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Wretches Poems - Poems about Wretches

Hold Fast
..."Hold fast, don't let the lines slip", The ropes tighten around the mast of the ship, A salty Captain grasps the wooden helm, Waves rip on the horizon, his realm, Quartermaster yells "Storm headi......

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Categories: wretches, boat, courage, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don't Ask Me
...mindless Frankenstein, single-minded, and her voracious, faithful dog with a seventy-foot tail, lifting carpets, sliding sofas, slurping everything in sight, with a bottomless pit for an appe......

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Categories: wretches, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Witch
...Wicked hexing creatures Wagging their evil tongues while casting ancient spells Wart faced old hags. Women who recite sorcery, with newt eyes in cauldrons Wretches grouped in covens......

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Categories: wretches, magic,
Form: Pleiades
Dunkelheit
...calling all mistreated jugglers and wretches of condemned madhouses bewitched by fingers of freak fame the spindly fingers of trickster twins that open the floodgates to occult caverns unleashin......

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Categories: wretches, imagery, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange Vampires
... "Strange Vampires" all those years ago, when conspiracies flourished around did we or didn’t we go to the moon, when we were once human, proved to be lies, whicheve......

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Categories: wretches, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Silence of My Logic
...Swept away by rivers not of my understanding for never before have currents run so deep and swift within me - driven by the unbridled power of my passions. A man of logic...... or so I claim, yet......

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Categories: wretches, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Omission
...Odd character that smacks God’s right hand. Miserable wretches - the media Is underhanded. Spits in the wind; truth is Suspect…fallacious videos, omissions Itinerant…on the cutting floor. Obama......

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Categories: wretches, truth,
Form: Political Verse
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
...Turkish Poetry Translations II Çanakkale Sehitlerine "For the Çanakkale Martyrs" by Mehmet Akif Ersoy loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Was there ever anything lik......

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Categories: wretches, autumn, god, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Conformity
...Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior, being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior. Compliances and obedience for the hero or nymph resort, names and numb......

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Categories: wretches, betrayal, discrimination, mentor, metaphor,
Form: Ballade
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na......

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Categories: wretches, dark, death, earth, grave,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Consumed By the Widow Spider
...Consumed by The Widow Spider The wretches of life are gone, from the weathered of a peaceful place, lived once in a playful soul? Feasting upon his flesh the widow, bite by bite, bit by ......

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Categories: wretches, deep, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ash Wednesday
...Ashes, Black, gritty, sooty signs Painted on the foreheads Of humanity parading about. My thumb would be black For several days following The signing of so many foreheads, The dark soot engrai......

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Categories: wretches, religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Love ***** Spirituals When the Only Way Out Was Death
...WHY I LOVE ***** SPIRITUALS I know why we sang those songs; Why I LOVE ***** Spirituals- I have a spiritual connection to those songs we sang. We sang out messages to the universe, and ......

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Categories: wretches, daughter, death, emotions, funeral,
Form: Blank verse
Billions Trillions
...billions advance most for fewest none at best arrest the rest the wretches naked and poor scorched earth superstar stretched stretch limousine king's lear jet platinum chariot to the offic......

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Categories: wretches, people,
Form: Free verse
The Sorcerer's Cloak
...He concealed what had no truth, it was an untruth that forged his power, yet the concealment was believed where nothing was concealed. Beneath his cloak there lurked no trickery, and no sight ......

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Categories: wretches, allegory,
Form: Free verse

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