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Emotive Eloquence Of Silence
Enchanted by the mirage of florid ecstasy,
the flower in my desiccated heart blossomed
when your charisma drizzled on me
like the soothing rare summer rain of oasis.
The flame of my heart was stoked
by the...
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Categories:
analogy, lost love, pain,
Form: Free verse
AppearancesThe distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...
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Categories:
pain, city, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of the ForgottenIn the shadowed alcove of memory, Where forgotten dreams curl like smoke, I wander, a spectral seeker, Tracing the edges of existence.
The moon, a pale witness, Hangs low, its silver gaze unyielding, As if it...
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Categories:
pain, age, anxiety, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
When Silence SpeaksThis poem is written for the "When Silence Speaks" poetry contest.
Date Submitted: 07/05/2024
the air conditioner soothing my heated skin
fire brick curtains with their red dyed orange,
bumblebee rays peeking through gaps in between
they have so...
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Categories:
pain, change, metaphor, mirror, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Devil Inside
Categories:
pain, angst, anxiety, conflict, hope,
Form: Rhyme
reverieAn existential crisis
Left to my own devices
Not an ounce of assistance
Never show any resistance
Just comply and let it be
Dignity isn't a necessity
I'm not the flower you'd pick from a garden
Orchids are beautiful, I'm a sight...
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Categories:
pain, 12th grade, age, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Leave of absence This is NOT a poem Just my real lifeHey all I know that I haven't been active on here for a while. I've been having some health issues lately that have been keeping me sidelined. That and trying to mentally prepare for a...
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Categories:
pain, absence, fear, health, how
Form: I do not know?
Love - NFC‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
While we’re in the vertiginous first throws
of being in love, Cupid across bows
fired seemingly randomly,...
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Categories:
love, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Touch a Raw Nerve
perception’s belief…
until deception’s beneath ~
despair is bequeathed
...
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Categories:
faith, pain, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Incarnate
Angels are unable to handle
these 'Sylvia Plath' sorrows,
hiding their halos -
mute to my concerns.
Love has abandoned me,
left me to decay in an open grave,
where flesh eating insects
devour my motionless corpse.
Yet, I'm a victim of...
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Categories:
angst, dark, pain,
Form: Free verse
Empathizing
Empathizing
Miracle Man
5/4/2024
We can’t feel some other’s pain but we can empathize,
we search our heart’s for comforting words to verbalize.
Pain we can’t feel,
To them, is so real,
their need is words of comfort, not someone to...
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Categories:
feelings, pain,
Form: Limerick
Eyes are the Windows to the SoulThey say eyes are the windows to the soul,
Hiding behind a facade taking its toll.
Saying you're fine when you're anything but,
In your mind, chaos beginning to strut,
Behind a smile so bright,
Masking...
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Categories:
pain, 9th grade, anxiety, cute,
Form: Rhyme
MoreI know what you mean
But it doesnt hurt any less
I wished you were more.
~ PoeticSoul...
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Categories:
pain, emotions, first love, hurt,
Form: Haiku
Unseen hurtI am hurt
And you can not see
The hurt that i have
Is inside of me
You cant see the pain
I live with everyday
This is the kind of hurt
That does not go away
It didnt happen overnight
It...
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Categories:
hurt, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The PainRid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear
Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned by their stare
Like I stole one of their limbs...
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Categories:
allegory, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Pain Poems
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chronic, cry, crying, emotion, emotional, him, hurt, hurting, life, love, my heart, physical, rhyme, sad, sadness, separation, sorrow, suffering, trust
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