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Poison The Well Poems - Poems about Poison The Well

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Premium Member Considering my position
...Somehow, all this grit makes me breathe out a wall of glass A prison forming, where I've too much to say but am unable to be heard Too tightly encased to generate the power needed to break out Arm......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lilith
... I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice borrowed from Eden, a deception of men ascending into the hollow o......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, analogy, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sonnet for the Empress
... In shadows draped, my night empress does glide, Amidst the moonlit meadow’s misty sigh, Her raven locks, a midnight river’s tide, Flow ‘neath the moonbeam’s haunting silver sky. Her eyes, o......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, beauty, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Sonnet
THERE WAS A NATION
...There was once a nation Bound by dreams and unity Every soul proud and free A land of hope and harmony. Then a shadow crept unseen A poison to the nation's dream Leaders, once so bright and t......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, 12th grade, africa, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Hush, the world will never know the mystery hidden in silences
...Hush, the world will never know the mystery hidden in silences, Paper bird feathers, drifting like the specters of unspoken dreams, From my heart, scattering like stardust on angel wings, Grains o......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Rose Up Slowly Lichtenstein
...I want to pour myself into you reciprocal medicine drink me in as I am swallowed up in the moment pain relief as senses forget themselves in that occupied space ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Poison of Poetry
... Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosit......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, pollution,
Form: Ottava rima
I'm searching for a poetry that’s a hotbed of immense danger
...I'm searching for a poetry that’s a hotbed of immense danger, A spell that unleashes deep fear into every soul. I want poetry that shakes the universe of old ideas, Banned in bookstores, sites, an......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Sound Bites: May 12, 2024
...Poison Ivy Academia … cesspool of deception harbinger — of lies (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) Occam’s Edge Plurality without necessity — pandering time (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member odic fail -
... hope … dismay heaven, hell gods, mortality … love all live within us we create our own realities and we dwell there … oh, we are taught the tools for life - the skills we use to SHAPE tha......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, analogy, break up, creation,
Form: Free verse
the day i woke up from my suicide
...it was cold, yet hot, a fever. i am surprised, as though I didn't fill myself with poison just the night before. my arm is taped down, attached to an iv, four pouches of medication seep into m......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Poison Ivy
... Remember that leaves of three, means you better let them be; Don’t get a rash on your ass, using the wrong type of grass, when in the woods you have to go pee. ......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Symphonies Of Destruction
... The wind blows, wails and cries Her strength, her rage, on an upward rise The sky that was clear now is black Her vengeance, her fury unfolds to attack. Lands tremble, crack and bends Destro......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, nature, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pirate of the Sea
...He sailed the seven seas said just let our ship be we'll drink our ale and rum sail until our days are done We drank barrels and barrels of rum drank until sick and our bodies done poison now......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Trails through Life
... Last song is sung As day is done Not one has lost Nobody's won Moonlight moves off Awaiting morn One has now passed One's to be born Been no farewells For those that leave They take......Read the rest...
Categories: poison the well, life,
Form: Rhyme

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