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Best Lifelessly Poems

Below are the all-time best Lifelessly poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lifelessly poems written by PoetrySoup members


Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

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Categories: lifelessly, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Child's Prayer
Clutched tight to my chest, the doll smiles lifelessly
sending vacant stares down the darkened hall.
A solitary line of pink light sneaks through a crack in...

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Categories: lifelessly, bereavement, child, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
Crimson Rain
On a still...ancient horizon,
Massive dragon wings emerge,
To the atmospheric battlefield. 
Where two legendary beasts,
Clash for the love...of a dragoness.

A battle of mythic proportions,
Of two stonily...

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Categories: lifelessly, fantasy, love
Form: Free verse




Nothing Is More Powerful Than Love
I am seated in a bed-like rock
Under the foothills this is a single block

The Sun rises behind my back
Though I face hills in the west,...

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Categories: lifelessly, feelings, happiness, journey, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...

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Categories: lifelessly, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun
Daybreak Up High
The flight had been long
as the jet soared through night.
My neighbors were lifelessly still,
weary for sleep, the night would fulfill,
and morning would graciously greet.

High up...

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Categories: lifelessly, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Vacant Eyes
You've seen that look before,
so many times that you lost count
It's the look of hopelessness,
the look of despair
Vacant eyes that no longer care
Who let the...

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Categories: lifelessly, depression, hurt, pain, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Windmill
It was once the pride of a prairie farmer not too many years ago.
Now, long abandoned it stands forlorn on a wind-blown plateau.
Its rusting blades...

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Categories: lifelessly, nostalgia, water, water,
Form: Rhyme
Serene Shores
-3/7/14 and 5/2/14-
The waves of the sea and the screeching of the seagulls 
Mix together like coffee and cream
I feel like I’m livin’ a dream
I...

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Categories: lifelessly, beauty, deep, dream, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Going Alone
I'm walking the path my father had shown.
It's the only way that I've ever known.
This cold empty throne 
of iron and stone;
Going alone

This solitude chills...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lifelessly, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Puttin' On the Ritz
A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers 
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.

Buttery lobster...

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Categories: lifelessly, beauty, celebrity, class, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Cirque Du Soleil Circus of the Sun
Have you ever stopped to wonder? 
How curious we can be
How we gleam with awe and wonder 
Still filled with anxiety

The world they say is...

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Categories: lifelessly, lifeworld, day, love,
Form: Rhyme
Some Say
Some say that some people never learn from their mistakes
To challenge life like leaves left un raked
Blowing in the grass on the sidewalk lifelessly misplaced
Too...

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Categories: lifelessly, lifelife, people, life, people,
Form: Imagism
The Innkeeper
The death penalty.
What a laugh
And their pulling on strings
To keep this going
As their money bags swing
Lifelessly
From left to right.
How dare they take an old mans
Walking...

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Categories: lifelessly, adventure, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
Irag
I hate my life 
My souls are damaged it’s full of pure hell that I can’t take it back it’s like listening to that awful...

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Categories: lifelessly, death, murder, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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