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Retinas Poems - Poems about Retinas

A Son of The Soil
...I am a son of the dark continent By conception and ancestral offshoot This black earth, Where my dark ancestors deposited The birth right of my life In the dark bowels of our black sacred ear......

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Categories: retinas, africa, beauty, humanity, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze. Please rescue us from this godforsaken place veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress. Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction woke......

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Categories: retinas, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dali - Nostalgic Echo - draft
...Viewing window made as skull hits stone Domes are forged in shattered bone Trapped inside this open space Shadows obscuring expressionless face Reflections of the hangman's noose As arms outstr......

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Categories: retinas, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
To Me, Today
...what is a hope if not the most desperately fervent wish of a man— a dream so deeply staining the edges of reality a hope lies dormant in my belly sleeping like a dragon curled on the hoard of......

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Categories: retinas, allegory, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Abstractually Speaking
...Eyes teleporting in zig zags Spamming like daggers Humanoid skull Veins expanding out Skeleton hand orbiting Soul screaming Love burning Shrouded in darkness It's hard to frame it in a ......

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Categories: retinas, angel, anger, art, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Some nights sleep without us
... When my eyes fold, they go not to rest, they fall into rivers that flow behind the retinas this is a painting of unfulfilled dreams dancing in lonely grave Suffocation is the metaphor for s......

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Categories: retinas, dark, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixelated Penance
...Screens stretched across the Modern World, rivalling our natural vision. Eyes, lenses, and optic nerves strained Retinas, pupils, irises, tears. Most affected? A Feast of Fatigued Eyes that r......

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Categories: retinas, care,
Form: Free verse
Letter Sealed Kiss
...Tartaric acid rain of the lost calligraphy Peels to melt the running emotions Drains clog beneath dynasties Commerce to no one in seas Pourtant je vois ceasefire See a spark of defiance ......

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Categories: retinas, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams
...In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams, And the world seems an atlas that no longer knows how to bend me towards heights. I call tenderly for shadows that can p......

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Categories: retinas, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
triptych
...Hydraulic system, heart made of pistons Every co-ordinated mechanical manoeuvre My heart served to you on a platter, your hors d'oeuvre I look into your eyes, a deplorable disguise Retina......

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Categories: retinas, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the shadow, under the tender and deep moonlight
...In the shadow, under the tender and deep moonlight, The ghostly insistences bind us in invisible chains, Your walk, Lucille, through me is a melody, That stirs through my core, through my frenzied......

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Categories: retinas, blue,
Form: Free verse
The Magic of Dream
..."If there's a magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys, and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that ......

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Categories: retinas, dream,
Form: Rhyme
New Sores Become Old Sores and Grow To Mature Into Scars
... I saw blue memoirs fell from momma's eyes, as she looked into my brown retinas. Swiftly she removed my medicated glasses, a dominant gene I carved out from papa's bottled eyes. "Oh! sorry D!......

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Categories: retinas, africa, black love, blue,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Golden Orb
...Driving into a ball of gold I would say orange but nothing rhymes I’ve likely travelled miles untold Lacking insight, completely blind He glares at me; I can’t glare back Right in my face, hard ......

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Categories: retinas, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Words of Violence and Strife Iii
...WAR Two tribes go to war one will survive one will end in demise. Two hearts clash one will be broken and the other could be stolen. War of light in infinite dark eternal is the strugg......

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Categories: retinas, anger, art, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse

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