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Outlasted Poems - Poems about Outlasted

Learn Your Place In Society
...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral......

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Categories: outlasted, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Dirt Road
...We built this house On a dirt road at the edge of the forest And between two coyotes dens So it’s hard to know if the howling at night Is sibling rivalry or civil war Serenade or sacrifice Th......

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Categories: outlasted, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dandelion Woman
...Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman the original wild flower! I go where I want to go I grow where I want to grow — don't matter if y o u say no dandelion wine summertime relax and rec......

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Categories: outlasted, beauty, conflict, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She stereotypes all Men
...Her disappointment Has outlasted her a lifetime She now hates all men Because of one awful man Stereotyping sadness ......

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Categories: outlasted, men,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Secret of Survivors
...No other people has endured the constant persecution 3,330 years of constant suffering From the Egyptian Pharaohs' enslavement and buffeting down through 20th and 21st century executi......

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Categories: outlasted, god, history, irony, jewish,
Form: Rhyme



Mods Won
...I really like pretending Especially at night Then I can pretend That I lead a different life But when I am awake I play Elder Scrolls 5 And distraction that it brings me Makes everything alrig......

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Categories: outlasted, character, education, true love,
Form: Rhyme
A Picture That Has Outlasted Time
...A picture that has outlasted time allows memory to remain sublime; wide smiles on sun-tanned faces, bare feet on warm sand dunes! The windless and gleaming sea seemed vaster than the greenest......

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Categories: outlasted, autumn, beauty, family, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Ruin In a Modern English Translation
...THE RUIN an Old English poem about fate & destiny modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch well-hewn was this wall-stone, till Wyrdes wrecked it and the Colossus sagged in......

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Categories: outlasted, destiny, eulogy, fate, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Sets Obstacle Course Endangering My Life and Limb
...While sidestepping impediments, Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap chronically inducing captain klutz to bemoan and yap, i.e. (think) booby trap strategically laid down by the missus - ......

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Categories: outlasted, abuse, autumn, humorous, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv
...Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV I. I ask these things, not understanding Accepting The ephemera of answers: How is it we come to be together ......

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Categories: outlasted, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Pushkin Translation: I Loved You
...I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I loved you once … perhaps I love you still … perhaps such erratic flickerings remain. But please don’......

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Categories: outlasted, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Verse
I Surrender
...I surrender, I have fought the good fight, I have outlasted most, In the fight that is seemingly lost. I will leave the battlefield. To spend more time with my grandson, So one day in the fut......

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Categories: outlasted, analogy, anger, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Imagism
How Could I Have Known
...My love how the years have come and gone we have almost outlasted time how could I have known you'd be with me forever you were my dream We loved each other as teenagers inexperienced with gr......

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Categories: outlasted, love, memory, together, true
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forest Green
...Lovely are the woods of Aberdeen, With many a grassy hill and sudden ravine, Far beyond the most recent care, Where the ruby sun doesn't dare. Color as rich as soft velvet, Deep green now and ......

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Categories: outlasted, age, beautiful, endurance, green,
Form: Rhyme
Long Ago, Long A-Gone
...Long ago, long a-gone. The world was a fickle mistress. The snowstorm was a white reaper, who uprooted the lame, and washed its white coat every winter. The heatwave was a sweeping hatchet. Even a......

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Categories: outlasted, dark, deep, emo, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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