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Reprieve Poems - Poems about Reprieve

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Today Or Tomorrow
...Death ever faithful in spite of the glee Holding our place in wanton reprieve We ever the cuckold of life’s dark affairs As quiet it waits — a loyal au pair (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, death, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Life With Pain
...Life With Pain I live with pain every day of my life Silently praying and smiling throughout, And cry myself to sleep every night. How quaint I may appear, but without spite And `rise......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, emotions, grief, pain,
Form: Villanelle
loss by your own hand
... it's 12 am and i cant breathe my mind, flashing through images and moments and pockets of space and time a restless energy a redemptive ache as i scream the name of a distant god its 1 am and ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, grief, silence,
Form: Free verse
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
...I live in a world of brutal ice and cold Despite the temperature being five below... these fingered handy limbs awash with profuse sweat dripping palms analogous to a bloody busted gushing wat......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Killing Times-Female Scottish Martyrs
...On the 11th May 1685 in the west of Scotland in a small coastal village called wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway the covenanters were sought to swear allegiance and acknowledge King James as head of t......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, death, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Sands of Solitude
...Silent streams swirl silver shadows deep Where sorrow's sediment settles, secrets keep Forgotten fragments of a fractured past Echoes of emotions that will forever last Fleeting fingers of fate......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, death of a friend,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Final Words of a Bereft Poet
...If I could no longer write poetry, I'd have no need of hands, nor eyes weary from weeping, a heart that lies broken, and a soul dead from mourning. ~ by poet I heard the fai......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, bereavement, poetry,
Form: Elegy
Believe
...Believe After all this agony, I still believe. Though my spirit suffered, I found relief. I seek to rescue, Cause all these pains are addictive. After all this torture, I still believe. Wor......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, birth, feelings, future, growth,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A Brief History of the Snake
... The snake sidles up to Eve from God she soon seeks reprieve With us yet, it slithers into Halls of Power injects venom ~ brave leaders cower ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, allegory, creation, crush, history,
Form: Couplet
Since English language my mother tongue, no surprise
...Since English language my mother tongue, no surprise... etymology encurtains, encompasses, and encapsulates healthy fixation why I can spend countless hours engrossed with printed material cou......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, addiction, analogy, books, dream,
Form: Free verse
Queen Of Madness Act 1
...Alice found herself in the icy grip of a desolate cell, her countenance devoid of emotion, her gaze lost in the abyss. As she hummed a haunting melody, fragments of her past began to surface, blurrin......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, dark, gothic, horror, memory,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Schizophrenic Portrait
...Written: May 09, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A diaphanous shroud on my cranium. It's worn down to the cram It's a reprieve from my madness. & now I clench my ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, analogy, scary, sick,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion
...In the depths of her despair, she's confined, A solitary figure, lost in her mind, Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight, She battles demons in the darkest night. Her thoughts, like poison, eat ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, conflict, dark, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Last Novena
...The manhood of a nation marching in the breeze Chasing what the dead have wrought taunting its reprieve Caught within the voices of forgotten yesterdays The winds of war but nine days off......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, war,
Form: Rhyme
Grim Embrace
...In the depths of her soul, she's yearning for touch, In a void of despair, where emotions are crushed. Once her fortress, her solace, her knight, Now distant, indifferent, cloaked in spite. He ......Read the rest...
Categories: reprieve, anger, depression, emotions, howl,
Form: Rhyme

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