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"descents" poems

24 poems containing "descents"

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MistressGuilty pleasure / But time I treasure / Just you and I

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My... Scars... Are... Not... YoursMy scars remind me of many things… / Some I want to remember and others I want to forget. / I am pure to the truth but I swell in regret.

@shelly-woods49

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SpooncycleCycling / High cadence / Low resistance

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abstinenceaddicted / turning on you / you’re more toxic

@stefania-rivoltini56

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A Romanticist' SuicideLiving is often like drowning, and sleeping like flying, / So bridges and tall buildings always tempt me. / When I talk about death I feel brave.

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Tiger Wood's Tale Stirs TodayTiger Wood's wins the Masters today / Another green jacket comes his way / Finally, his image stands large at the doorway

@logan-robertson26

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Don't Rue the Day You Read That VerseWhat good can come from words of mine, / In open, blank or crafted rhyme; / Could they affect a single mind,

@francie-lynch28

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SalvationHow many times can one hope to be saved, / After all the descents to the depraved? / How many times succumbed to sinful thought?

@not_thepoet_hewantstobe19

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Water wearyThe horror, / of a tired mind, / When walls,

@eva-schoolcraft12

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DepthIt was deep into the heart of the earth, / Down the spiral staircase of dreams, / Far from the comfort of the suns and moons,

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Season's Growth*I / look / westward.

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If I were to write you a poem,I'd suffer four long years / Before I set a letter on the page... / I'd sob a hundred times,

@don-bouchard41

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at the brink of... soonToes / curl over a grassy ledge / *above a raging sea* Whispers

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Last Ditch AttemptsLast ditch attempts and descents without grace. / Darkness was diffusing into ambers. He’d been deteriorating for a while now, slowly, abruptly, and then with the fall of the summer months completely off the other end of the scale. He’d felt it in adrenaline coursing through his veins, known it when spilled liquids seeped into carpets that weren’t his own. But this was it. He faced the final breech of his own standards, or what was left, with bare feet, exposed eyes, all the while knowing he was corrupted. / He had brought himself inches away from a descent, drawn himself through the chaos, grasped his gnarled hand around what had held him back, and pulled, pulled his own cold body from the lifeless thud on the floor, pulled himself here, and now his toes curled over the edges of what had been his life.

@jodie-whitchurch15

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From 5 October 2013;When our time comes, / float down like / autumn leaves.

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JourneyI ventured on a journey all alone / Self powered also self empowered / Lonely I was but I did not bemoan

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When A Branch Falls So Will The GuiltySuch a strong branch holding up the / fruits of so many seasons but then one / winters wrath did the wind pick a fight.

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Breathless NostalgiaFeeling soft, cool breezes gliding on my skin like a graceful dance / Feeling as though I'm in a nostalgic trance / Nostalgic of once being surrounded by zephyr whispers

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The End.Love rises from the firey / Basement of the soul / And soars the infinite skies

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Untitled #6In her hair were / lilacs and lilies / how she felt, indescribable

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of heavenly descentsbarefoot on the clouds, / i chased you all the way home - / i'm crazy for you.

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Sunsetshe walks / unbridled / through the

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Midnight Bus Ride to EternityMidnight light, will you goad my eyes / into the unbelievable sereneness of sleep, / And hush into silence the sleepless trucks

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