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Domestic Violence BlowsI suppose the blows from
your dark fist gets softer
with time spent running
for my life I mean your
face seems to fade a little
bit more when I’m sitting
in mass or singing...
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Categories:
america, corruption, deep, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
A New Mad American EmpireThis is the edge of America
This is the edge of America
The land of the free
Home of the brave
The Republic of Tyrannies
White hoods and black fist
Cities in flame
Agent Orange burns
Television drones on
Into the static...
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Categories:
corruption, america, analogy, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
Everything Just So
Green grass, cut once or twice weekly
A CEO might shave twice a day
Edges and hedges trimmed nicely too
...
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Categories:
business, corruption, green, hair,
Form: Couplet
THIS LOVE BETWEEN USWhat is love between two People?
What can it ever be equal? It is, is it
Unspeakable unthinking unthinkable?
Can you think about it before the FACT?
What is the AFTERMATH? After after
You have loved enough? You have enough
Love....
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Categories:
africa, allusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
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How and why he
Remains so popular
With some Americans
Remains a mystery.
He remains me
Of an old-time insult
Comedian, Don Rickles
Who was infamous
For insulting his audience
Who loved...
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Categories:
corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse
MESSY MANDIESad place when Lucifer sits behind a desk allowing severe repeat violent offenders to give false statements falsified documents in order to frame innocent persons from behind bars after over 20 convictions queen pin drug...
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Categories:
anti bullying, corruption, evil,
Form: Free verse
InnocentInnocent
Lighting travels through my core, like a diving hawk to prey.
Unwittingly, I let a breathy moan escape.
To the glory of the heavens, my eyes roll up then close.
The better to feel and isolate...
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Categories:
christian, corruption, desire, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
corruption, abuse, age, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Safety ReasonsJokes banned, thoughts criminalized
Politicians try to sell
Safety reasons, no surprise
Their lies aren’t selling well
Safety reasons grow like weeds
In rose gardens of the mind
Coming out from the seeds
Sown by winds of time
Artificial brains...
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Categories:
corruption, depression, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Podcast Episode 24 BopPictures of babies and license plates,
are you asking a criminal to find you?
The internet is NOT benevolent.
It’s phony as hell, you better believe it;
Keep your life out of reach and private.
A cheer or criticism,...
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Categories:
computer, corruption, emotions, humanity,
Form: Other
Delicious DeVilDelicious DeVil, Delicious DeVil
If he's never wooed you, there may be time still
He’ll light the fire underneath your grill
Delicious, delicious DeVil
You may think this devil is too scary
But he's only a lusty man of sin
A...
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Categories:
corruption, humor, lust, passion,
Form: Lyric
Mountebank"Who will believe a mountebank? Everyone if she is good." ~Andy Griffith~
Carefully she wrote on the back of a fifty dollar bill.
”Have a happy birthday dear, I know you will”
After writing that sweet...
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Categories:
corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Crime against humanity
The government department of defense authorized a burn
of toxic chemicals from East Palestine train derailment
This created phosgene, Dioxins and deadly chemicals combined
This all traveled with weather systems and proven with testing
Many times, I speak of...
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Categories:
angst, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Cry O GhanaO child of Mother Africa
The tortoise is still on the road
Realities cannot hold, dreams dying
Hopes turn to ashes every day
Cry O Ghana, O Ghana
Rich and green Nation
Shame and poverty clothe the people
Electricity is being...
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Categories:
corruption, dark, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Land Of The Free
They put you in jail
But this is America
The land of the free
Rich people have wealth
And politicians steal it
Lining their pockets
With record prophets
They surely forgot Jesus
Parading rockets
This is our today
Stealing tomorrow away
From our own children
The less...
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Categories:
america, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Corruption Poems
Definition | What is Corruption in Poetry?
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