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Departing(A) Poems - Poems about Departing(A)

cruelty to toads

...the toads do not dive they plop into the scummy pond pale green bellies floating beneath them like airbags they paddle and back-stroke through the weedy water as slow as inflatable boats whe......

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Categories: departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse

Just Humor Me

... I met a fellow mortal as we both were of necessity departing a place we could no longer reside. The city was called 2023. The two of us were headed north to reside in a new and different city ......

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Categories: departing(a), new year,
Form: Free verse

Fast Forward-A

...Like a slow-moving westbound wagon train in 1887, filled with brave souls departing a land of nightmares; or like a 13-year-old in no-man's-land looking at 18 and wishing he could push a button ca......

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Categories: departing(a), america, poverty, time,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cruelty To Toads

Categories: departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse

God's Affair

...A closed fist. A pair of eyes pressed shut. A teardrop trickling down. A mouth wide open. A shrill shriek piercing multiple eardrums. An open palm. A pair of eyes unfurling to see their first lig......

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Categories: departing(a), death, deep, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Damascus Revisited

...He relied much on ‘expert’ opinions, doctrine and dogma as if assumptions and conjecture were an undeniable truth. ‘Settled science’ was accepted confidently, blind faith and an irrational rat......

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Categories: departing(a), poetry,
Form: Free verse

Why a Setting Sun Upsets

...I wonder why a setting sun upsets, Departing, a fellow passenger, A belated monsoon when hesitates, Why good fragrance fades like a stranger. But then, the sun at dusk is ought to set, Tra......

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Categories: departing(a), death, pain, sun,
Form: Free verse

Road

...My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to......

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Categories: departing(a), age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio

A Long Fall

...Oh’ little star, you was always there above my head, But I missed you when you were hiding from my eye sight. I opened my window in the night time from my bed. But sky was clouded and moon was a......

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Categories: departing(a), caregiving, devotion, inspirational, nature,
Form: Terza Rima