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Records and Rules
Records are made to be broken
Rules to be followed
Records that are shattered
via rules that aren’t followed
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Categories:
society, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Curtains
Setting: a rendition of Tara Plantation, 1860’s Georgia
Characters: Scarlatina (S), an oddly-dressed Southern Belle
Brett Rutler (B), a dashing, but presently quite confused, rogue
Scene: The characters discuss Scarlatina’s attire.
S: Oh, it’s...
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Categories:
clothes, confusion, society,
Form: Verse
Happy Valley
It was a strange and unexpected experience.
Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular...
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Categories:
society, humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?
Angela DeVil(To be sung to the tune of “Cruella DeVil” from Disney’s 101 Dalmatian)
Angela DeVil, Angela DeVil.
Often misunderstood
As after a kill
To see her is to think
Of a devil from hell.
Angela, Angela
Why not give the girl a...
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Categories:
judgement, society, song,
Form: Lyric
On The Right Trail To Right EndDo I remember when...
Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so...
For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own silence… hear them…
‘Are we missed?’
___*___
I am old in age now
Quieter...
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Categories:
society, age, dream, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse
final accountbefore life begins
we accrue fictional sins
so guilt always wins
lest any deem themselves free
to alter reality
dollars and distance
do not measure existence
despite persistence
constant debt all but assured
within this credit card world
is living better
starting off as a debtor
shame's...
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Categories:
society, culture, death, judgement, life,
Form: Tanka
Liberal Snowflake
I am a liberal snowflake.
I’m threatened by words that you make.
If you don’t agree,
Don’t dare let me see
Because I am WOKE not awake.
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Categories:
anxiety, discrimination, humanity, society,
Form: Limerick
rally to polling boothsseasons shift so do eras
moughal era
british india era
parliamentary governance era
america;russia may make an offer to grow to next level
but make india sovereign dependent
britain with brexit may grow english speaking population to next level
but make india...
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Categories:
society, evil, fear, freedom, future,
Form: Haiku
The RefugeeWarming myself in the fire of the sun, why must the soil be so cold?
Listen closely, and I'll show you a story of ancestors I never knew
They had a place like this that they called...
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Categories:
society, courage, flower, growth, life,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever, Kaitlyn, and you too, Joe B
Why is my salary any business of yours
or yours any business of mine
Remember when we aired out our laundry
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Categories:
money, silence, society,
Form: Rhyme
Throw Away The KeyGo ahead....
and throw away the key,,,
There's nothing left inside my head .....
of my sanity.
If only I could change...
what it is I have become,
and return to the beginning....
of where I started from.
But...
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Categories:
introspection, mental health, society,
Form: Rhyme
Check the Message
When a tripping tongue
sets a tail to wagging
Check the message brung
see what it’s bagging
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Categories:
society, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
AnomieDowry, drug addiction, and domestic violence rule
Female foeticide and female infanticide go cool.
Abortions, corruption, and gender inequality
Racism, human trafficking, casteism, and poverty
Food adulteration, wealth hoarding, consumerism, and greed
With many such evils, we, as a society,...
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Categories:
humanity, life, society,
Form: Rhyme
DemocracyPeople's selection
Got from Babylon the Great
That's by election....
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Categories:
culture, engagement, political, society,
Form: Haiku
On Moral Relativism, Part II...You apply it to history
and the causes we fought
just fade away into nothing,
and everything is lost.
You think that slavery was bad,
that’s just your point-of-view,
you think that women should have rights,
keep that nonsense with you!
How can...
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Categories:
society, god, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Society Poems
Definition | What is Society in Poetry?
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