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"acquiescent" poems

28 poems containing "acquiescent"

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InsomniaCan't sleep, it's always the same. / I get to my room, exhausted, lie in my bed, / Close my eyes and the Sleepless Fairy

@carlos-molina29

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untitledMore fickle than the seasons / fragile like thawing ice / attached with a firm grip

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smilingi’ve long dreamt / of black flags in the streets / tonight i marched beneath

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Brokenness*Burning my will / In His fire of obedience / Drowning my woe

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Things to do(for the unknown You) – / Sweep up a mound of achievements; / layer dogwood and newspaper beneath;

@christopher-howard-gorrie44

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Thrift Shop ConfessionalThrift Shop Confessional / Old carts squeak down re-sale aisles / "One of," "two of,"

@don-bouchard70

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cosmic dustwith every click of Their tongues, / i am acquiescent. / Their words fill my lungs,

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BRIDE*her soul a bride / her life a corpse at the gate / a naked mouth red

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Night PieceClimb, claim your shelf-room, far / Packed from inquisitive moon / And cold contagious stars.

A. S. J. Tessimond18

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Fear Not for Your Ephemeral CorpseFrom my rotting body, flowers will grow, and I will finally be beautiful. / The marigolds that will bloom will not flee and vanish from the glow of the sun / They will aspire and capture its power, ever basking in its majesty unlike all that I have done

@michelle-lynne17

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I Talked to Death TodayI looked outside, the sun is shining where it hasn't for days. / I looked inside, it's been caliginous for months. / The smoke over my tea seems foreign,

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Undisputed TruthThe road to truth has many immure & acquiescent turns / Many tough battles with fire has left marks from many burns / Gruesomely the darkest hours of life are in the nugatory lies

@michael-p-smith11

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Nelumbo nuciferaThe way I expressed it didn’t fully / Make sense to my dearest / Who only likes men.

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Whispers of the NileAwake / by the flickering candle / feeling your chest heaving gently in the darkness

@helios-rietberg21

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Sonnet for the Non-idealizedLay simplistic in my nervous embrace, / though my fingers shake with your purity. / A great, gold-backed moon-palette for a face,

@christopher-howard-gorrie14

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Pay BackIt's acquiescent, / to grieve for what you *don't* have, / your losses will pay.

@matthew-harlovic4

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(exeunt)blood on my lips / dirt in my hair / a smile hidden somewhere in the grimace

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Ill-usionWith its roots embedded in the ground / The plant gains its vitality / Nourishments painstakingly climbs

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ScruplesHere lies a lonely heart / And here it was besought / Too acquiescent to question

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RespiratesThe question respirates / the acrylic aperture / behind the eardrum.

@WordsWithWill20

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The Dwelling You Gave MeAs a leaf departs from a twig which dears her true / And which on his care and ardor adamant / So acquiescent and frail you depart too

@yugen_oihcatsip12

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hold me tighter***Amiable, amorous and acquiescent, / an embrace like no other. / Determined and dauntless desire,

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TimeTime / The acquiescent servant of God / Delivering its victims

@eric-gallagher8

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wonderlandpart of the issue is that people spend so much time / trying to quantify paradise; / trying to delineate

@hank-desroches43

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A RoseIn mid morning dew / Why find you so sullen? / it's of no regret to see

@sputter-outlaw23

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