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Basic Needs Poems - Poems about Basic Needs

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Premium Member Band of Brothers
... Bonded by basic needs, so to speak, Canine cliques congregate for a leak; Not hard to foresee - Neighbour’s only tree - Scoop by scoop will turn into s..t’s creek. ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman Saint Patrick's Day, or Feast of Saint Patrick Lá Fhéile Pádraig invoke even non Irish to proclaim Éirinn go Brách translated as "Ireland Forever." ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Primal Needs
...When I was younger a team of myself and twelve others spent time in a very harsh environment an environment not suited for human habitation it very quickly became abundantly clear that our bas......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend! I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
...Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality Countdown to homelessness – mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son panhandler would would register pyrrhic victory won. 10…......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Precious Priceless Progeny
...Precious priceless progeny Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffle......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm
...Written: 21 July 2023 Submitted to No. 1231 New Poem Only Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm* As rises the wealth of nations, As grows the limb of a ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, humanity, inspiration, men, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten
...Can she who births a human flock, forget to give her newborn suck. Oh yes indeed! She may forget, and leave their basic needs unmet. To amnesia our minds are prone, As by wild winds our lives ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, betrayal, blue, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
It Is Time To Live Together
...What’s the reason of hate? To hide love? All these feelings are real, My mind manufactures only to be manipulated. Afraid to love that’s why we hide behind “facts and language”? If you’re tired ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, 8th grade, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cathexis
...Psychic energy that is misspent on an idea, perhaps an object, and often on a person, is referred to as a cathexis, an action to satisfy an urge or need that can worsen. In his explored psych......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gaslighted
...Without truth ! there is no shore so swimming in the endless will be the struggle for ever more. And no hope! Of a clear new dawn Instead a myre, so deep , and truth Is caged, beneath evils s......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman Since adopting the guise of Norwegian bachelor farmer, I may as well fabricate genetic stock lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend. Sentimentali......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Search For Idealism
...Placed First in: Can`t Believe It was a Na Poetry Contest Sponsored by Silent One The Search for Idealism Existing in the recess ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, humanity, inspirational, men, world,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Our Soul's the Key
...What sets a human apart from a dog; we are both alive, and we both draw breath. But dogs, unlike humans, live in a fog; they're entirely oblivious to death. Dogs only respond to their b......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, animal, death, dog, faith,
Form: Sonnet
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
...1. This hunger artist cannot read volumes of printed material fast enough to satiate an immense appetite and unquenchable thirst to acquire learning from the millenniums gushing fount of ......Read the rest...
Categories: basic needs, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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