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A High PriceConsumed are days and nights
By this lacerating lingering longing
To return triumphant the source of all
Existence is a high price to pay
To come to terms
With what in essence we are...
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Categories:
introspection, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Road Unseen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I walk a road unseen for many a year
except in my dreams or my wakeful yearning.
This misty day — my joy replaces my tears.
Who would've dreamt I'd find myself returning?
Some pasts morph into shape-shifted fresh...
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Categories:
journey,
Form: Ottava rima
Jamais Vu"NA" poetry contest
Sponsor: Ink Empress
3rd Place.
Jamais Vu ~ "The feeling of being unfamiliar with something that is familiar. The opposite of deja vu."
These days, life is shroud in a fog so vivid
I’m forgetting what it...
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Categories:
journey, allusion, angst, growth, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Eclipse In life
There are times you see
The visual image of things getting tough.
Friends go and you're left a fish in dry sea
Roads that were straight begin to curve.
You only see the high blue sky
Speaking to you with...
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Categories:
inspirational, journey, meaningful, mentor,
Form: Rhyme
Radiance In the Dark
In the gloomy nights
Dies my life; my soul
Fighting unconquerable fights
Demons within the cold
Lying on the floor
half dead__alive
Fading image of the shore
Far off for a glide
A sense of vision
Blurry in its appearance
__mysteries of...
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Categories:
journey, anxiety, care, change, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Journeys
A baseball glove lies on its back
in a trunk of items
once fresh and youthful
now discarded for
love and marriage
perhaps a stroller
whose blue-eyed
...
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Categories:
journey, baby, baseball, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Rose Blooms in SpringShe turns sixteen one cold December clime
He strings dissembling lover’s thorns so girthed
The sprouts of pristine virtue split by crime
The core is sore, this shriveled Rose is birthed
Though frigid Rose, she seeks to now resorb
In...
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Categories:
12th grade, innocence, journey,
Form: Sonnet
UnderstandingGrowing up so very fast
Moments like these are meant to last
A child only moments before
Now her future unsure
A child still is she
A woman she must now be
Childhood becomes distant
Innocence lost in an instant
Into her hands,...
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Categories:
journey, encouraging, for teens, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Let's do itCloudy Hurricane
The tides have beads of value
Bungee jump and pick...
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Categories:
journey, growing up, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
My Vision QuestThe skies grew dark,
Flashes of light,
The past, the present,
Glimpses in my sight.
The dreams of the night,
Invade until twilight.
An owl comes with a message,
Dreams and nightmares,
Visions and premonitions.
I see her focus within my view,
Then I realize...
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Categories:
blessing, devotion, dream, journey,
Form: Rhyme
NO PLACE FOR POETS
There is no place for the poet...
We are all lost
In our last stages,
without having time
To leave...
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Categories:
journey, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
LOVE RECALL TRUE STORYA woman journeyed to the island of Jamaica in the West Indies
The island of be happy and don’t worry
First thing the woman did was laid on the beach
Soaked up some sun
There were many people among
The...
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Categories:
journey, adventure, betrayal, body, death,
Form: Rhyme
Journey of the Escargot-Funny Limerick Poetry Contest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Henry carried his house on his back,
He could get up and leave, no need to pack.
Although travel was slow
For this escargot
He traveled alone, made his own track.
Although it took him many years
Henry finally made...
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Categories:
humor, journey,
Form: Limerick
I am looking for a new place to begin againI am looking for a new place to begin again, to start fresh.
It seems I am always looking for such a place,
even when I am okay with where I'm at now.
Others tell...
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Categories:
growth, hope, journey, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
journey, emotions, first love, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Journey Poems
Definition | What is Journey in Poetry?
Poems Related to Journey
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