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Best Leeched Poems

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Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: leeched, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart
"Heart"  

Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of 
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret 
through the green 
veined blues

protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft...

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Categories: leeched, muse,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages
I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to...

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Categories: leeched, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Fight
The Fight


	Determination to remove your force
	of despondency.
	That osmosis of my joy being leeched
	through your membrane of anxiety
	to a cavern of what if’s and if only’s
	preventing...

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© Rena Ong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leeched, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Witch At Pike's Peak
Once upon a Pike’s Peak dreary,
This witch said her name was Carrie,
Fog so thick couldn’t see nary,
Though her screech was a bit scary!

Suddenly the thick...

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Categories: leeched, funny
Form: Rhyme
You Can Run Now
Freedom.

Oh you can run now, I'm setting you free
So for once in your life, accept gratefully
Ignore every time I proclaimed in the past
My arms open...

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Categories: leeched, history, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



Shangri-La
So I wrote again. This took longer than it should have. Only fair to warn you, this is a long one.

SHANGRI-LA

Prologue

The village gates stood, like...

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Categories: leeched, adventure, angst, death, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Garden of Death
There grew in a garden,
White flowers pale as death,
That grew in rows like tombstones, 
Their odor; foul like dragons breath.

Flowers bent and brittle,
Stems with many...

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Categories: leeched, imagination, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Personification
Back To Reality
Back to Reality

Waking up from dreaming...still screaming at myself wondering why it keeps 
seeming to still be just a dream....but in reality mathematically nothing adds...

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Categories: leeched, dream, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Heart of Viking Legends and Thor's Great Oath, Part One,
To The Heart Of Viking Legends And Thor's Great Oath,
Part One, (In tribute to, the poem, "The Old Gods",
by Calvin Dill Wilson)


When the Olden Gods...

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Categories: leeched, creation, fantasy, hope, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' How I Hated That Damn Ground
O' How I Hated That Damn Ground


I stood there raining my tears
utterly broken at fifteen years
Thinking of all that dad gave
now newly laid in a...

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Categories: leeched, cry, death, grief, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Götterdämmerung Part 2
This is the second half, read part one before this

...This life was unlike others, not ripe, not light
We curs't them, 'stood not their mutual blight
There...

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Categories: leeched, lost love, lovedark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Sunrise To Sunset
Aurora begins collecting daybreak’s embers -
sparking them till sun has caught on fire.
If fortunate, we get to waken to blue skies
as sun rises higher and...

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Categories: leeched, beautiful, day,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To My Phoenix
For days, for nights
you moaned in pain.
For weeks, for months
you cried in vain.

For days, for nights
you wept in silence.
For weeks, for months
you anguished with prudence.

For...

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Categories: leeched, family, happiness, health, hope,
Form: Free verse
Dreams Part 1
Transformer-changeling, 
liquid currency of purchasing. 
Themes
Selling us your wares as we wade in your maelstrom pool.
Accentuating my cares.
Dreams.
Weave for me-from your electric spool.
Your hourglass adbdomain...

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Categories: leeched, beach, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things