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Displaying 468 poems from the Elegy poetic form.

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Weekend Lover
— Danesha “NESH” Robinson
Weekend Lover

Anticipation from Tuesday..Feenin for your lips smothering me Wednesday. Something like finger lickin just the tip Thursday. Enhanced to...
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your heart
— Doreene Felder
A surrendered heart
A heart. That wants a better ending
It wants a better life than it has now
It wants to change for the better
It wants to be more...
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"The Lame Game"
— J. Stearns
I just bought a game
It was kind of lame
So i got another one
Now this one was fun
I could play it all day
If only my friends could play
It would be so...
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Heart Explosion
— Nancy L RODRIQUEZ
Heart Explosion

  By Nancy Rodriquez

 
The love which builds until it can no longer be contained ,
Becomes a heart...
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Venice when it goes into winter
— Simona Nicoleta Lazăr
The wind brings icy rains to the lagoon
oxidizes laughing copper scales and waters

bitter
poetry bites the snake

venice chills its lovers
(warmer...
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Salute To The Martyr Osman Makawi
— Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker
He was a Lofty Sudanese SAF soldier, he came to a halt in the battles, and he hollered as the shuttlecocks left the skyline; he came to a halt with his...
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He Is My Hero
— Marilyn Hopkins
He and I, we are cousins
Childhood playmates, enclave
Playing 'til way after dark
Later, we grew apart

Years enhanced by flooded memories
Of days...
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Dreams of the Future: Embracing Courage and Determination
— Dreams of the Future
You only move forward
When the dreams of the future
Are bigger than the fears of the past.
The courage to move ahead
Gives you the strength to face...
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The Corona Baroness
— Richard Mwebesa
Take me away
Hold me firmly. Don't let go
I have lost my breath. I cannot feel my fingers.
I feel cold and it’s becoming so long a road to ponder
I...
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Certain Death
— Elijah Ramos
When I stand upon this ledge,
All I see is certain death.
The sun in the sky above means nothing.
For all I see is certain death.

When I think about...
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A Dirge to a Golden Princess
— Abby Kesington
The golden princess now sits pretty with her Lord
In her wake is a village of mourners
Those gathered cried a river

As they sang songs of a dearly...
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Another Memory Long Lost
— Alexander Reece DE Leon
Another memory long lost.
The planets align my senses. My mind only thinks of you.
Another memory long lost and nothing you said was true.
Forget me not....
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Thoughts of Eve
— Nanribet Cornelius
Bon voyage

The hovering clouds and stary stars
The perfect hue of imperial blue
The crescent moon and splendid muse

Bon...
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How sad it is...
— H Kusumesh
One year passed with sitting at home
Time does flow without knowing how
Ten times a day thinking off to go
But the smiling faces of clan won't let me go...
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Numbers
— Agustin Andrade
Though your time has come I’m sorry to inform you
That your ashes had no family to go to
And that society’s ideals are so sadistic
That your untimely...
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In Honor of WB Yeats
— Des Gahan
In twilight's shimmering embrace, I tread,
Amidst the mists where secrets lie unfurled,
Where ancient tales, by time's hand, were bred,
And whispers...
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Like Falling Stars
— Nancy Rodriquez
Like Falling Stars
By Nancy Rodriquez

We are like falling stars,
stopped in our tracks, right where we are,
This can be seen from different points...
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Fighting Your Own Enemy
— Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker
You dwell in a universe of ever-present conflict with those who keep this voracious
Warriors of our ruddy, frosty, and sky
Love is all about you’ll...
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The Compass From the Hearr
— Nancy L RODRIQUEZ
The Compass From the Heart
By Nancy Rodriquez

When we journey with the compass from the heart,
We put our trust in the Universe,
No matter near or...
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It Hurts Like Hell
— Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker
It hits me hard, the pain of locking away my feelings fight against the hate my soul can’t handle any more bruises.

Love is that feeling that when...
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Remembered By What We Have Done
— Israel Chinonye Uche
Enyi m, how would you be remembered when you bid farewell to this earth:-
as a celebrated thief
like Anini;
as an ex-convict like Ikenna;
as a mass...
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A Mother Leaving
— Corneigh Hoff
Now that you’ve left (and at such short notice),
I worry: did you pack all that you need?
Did you take sufficient clothing, a good coat
for these late...
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Grief
— Nelisiwe Mtshweni
No one sees me,
I hide and appear in lonely moments,
I appear in moments of pressure,
I make sure I visit once in a while,
I am grief.

I let you...
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Chaotic Gymnasium
— Nweke Benard Okechukwu
morning after the bus plunged into the river, 32 made it to the water base, bus-wrecked.

& we took threnody to the shoreline. at least to remind...
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Frog
— Josette Buckley
Never would I have thought,
That one could make me so distraught
Nature herself cried…
On the day that you died
Tossed over that fence--
Not a moment...
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