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Grates Poems - Poems about Grates

I Remember You -- the city speaks
...(The Hollow City Cycle include: The Hollow City I Remember You -- the city speaks Last One Left) You left me when the lights flickered and the water turned bitter. When the sky coughed......

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Categories: grates, city, sick, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dividing Line
...Bright lights, flames in motion. Arms weighted with emotion, as each carries their burdensome torch. Lit alleyways, littered by mayhem, breached by commonsense. Is it too late to chase sci......

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Categories: grates, imagery, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Skating Upon Saturn's Rings
... Saturn's rings mystify me indeed- all seem bound with no purpose or need. Spinning boulders and ice- pictures of them add spice. In the end, where will good answers lead? But, last night I w......

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Categories: grates, imagination, universe,
Form: Limerick
Living In A Waist Land
...By barren sands, the weary streets do sprawl, Where voices rattle in the iron dusk, And hollow laughter rises, wan and thin. The city groans beneath a leaden sky, Where smoke and sorrow mingle,......

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Categories: grates, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A FAIR PAIR
...A FAIR PAIR Willy the worm would want to wiggle Just a joke joining in with joyful jiggle Gaity I guess, giving guffaw or giggle Delighted to dig and dive down deep Why one would wish to walk ......

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Categories: grates, friendship,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Sonnet Celebrating International Women's Day
...With wings of golden starlight your spirits flare Each woman burst forth a steadfast astral pyre Your valiant souls are / defying / confining the tethered snare Like distant suns that are ......

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Categories: grates, celebration, freedom, grandmother, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gs Having Fun
...Gorillas grow growly gruffy grouchy grampas Giving grateful gremlins grassy growth plates Glassy glistening glowing glaring glimmers of globes Groovy grizzly gristleworms gracefully grifting grand......

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Categories: grates, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Anchor For Rancor
... Hatred spews from his heart It’s in his eyes, in his breath, in his smirk Feels like he could tear me apart I’ve never met an angrier jerk! Resentment silences every hope She i......

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Categories: grates, appreciation, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Meaning of Night - Painting By Magritte
...I stand alone, though I see another Frequenting dark corners shouting 'other' Cloaked in shadow, or a shadow become Out run, out run, out run, out run We dance the dance, the dance of death Ma......

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Categories: grates, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Yet, More Than a Brother
...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l......

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Categories: grates, allusion, analogy, beauty, character,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Old Port
...I like the old buildings, the weathered brick, the worn down doorsteps sanded by a century of shuffling feet, the musty smells from old bond stores and hotel cellars wafting up through grates ......

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Categories: grates, home, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Getting Through It
...The jocular hilarity of the holiday festivities grates me raw. I can't help it the merrier everyone gets the more sad I feel. I know I am not right, never have been. I paint a stiff smile on m......

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Categories: grates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Is What We Do On Halloween
...Does Dedra look strange to you? I asked her cousin. No more than usual; he replied. She’s crazy as a dozen. A dozen hyenas? A dozen cats? A dozen fleas? Don’t ask me, he said. She’s always been a ......

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Categories: grates, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heaven
...Subtle, tingling, blissful caress Wholeness of being, free from stress Essence of presence celebrates Each node within, Cupid’s address Magnetic heat, pheromones grates To music of spheres, s......

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Categories: grates, heaven, joy, love, wisdom,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Flight of the Wedgetail
...And where to go now ?. The wall that has kept back silence is beginning to dissolve and already that vast ocean of nothingness is slowly seeping into what holds you together. You could always......

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Categories: grates, earth,
Form: Free verse

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