Backgrounds Poems

We're different roads

...We walk divergent paths, you and I,
Two distinct journeys, like parallel lines in the sky,
Our minds, a dichotomy, a clash of thought and deed,
I navigate logic's realm, while you follow feelings'...
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Categories: backgrounds, funny love, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRacism in the Workplace

...Racism in the Workplace**

Racism is a prevalent issue within workplace environments, often manifesting in the interactions among employees. Given that individuals spend a significant portion of th...
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Categories: backgrounds, anti bullying, anxiety, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse


Ode to a Journalist

...You made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
            Man and beast...
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Categories: backgrounds, dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLettrs App

...This is a place where we put our emotions out there 
We write about our fantasies or our ugly nightmares 
Releasing so much stress by using our virtual pen 
So many backgrounds we don't know where...
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Categories: backgrounds, computer, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Nothing Can be Done

...Love has been described as a battlefield as it can leave us with scars that can be seen and unseen by others. 
Especially when the notes are singing in harmony. 
A Harmony that is purely Bella to t...
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Categories: backgrounds, love,
Form: Sonnet


Premium MemberThe Juvenile Delinquents' personal informational Bible scam part two

...Those two partners pretended to be against each other, with one of them pretending to
be a 'bad influence on the other one,' but the so-called good kid was just as bad as his
partner in crime.  And...
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Categories: backgrounds, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberSELMA WISDOM

...It was that bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
The fight and struggle
The revolution with Hate and Love
The multitudes to convey the Civil Rights message
The shall in overcome
Marching for Miles
It w...
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Categories: backgrounds, care, color, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse

Paul Beadnall My Testimony SHORT VERSION

...PAUL BEADNALL TESTIMONY. FEAR TO FAITH TO FREEDOM. 

I was brought up on a rough council estate 1 of 6 kids, Mam and Dad from ungodly backgrounds there was no love plenty of arguing and fighting, w...
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Categories: backgrounds, analogy, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

HerStory

...HerStory 

HerStory 
YourStory
MyStory 
Somehow always ends up being the same 
It's a blessing 
To be a woman 
Let me explain 
We are so unique 
Eloquently made 
We are a demand in stock
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Categories: backgrounds, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC

Tri-Holiday

...The time of the year was ripe with people being able to change their styles of fashion and desires by merely becoming part of a holiday that allowed them to be different.
It was a time of the year w...
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Categories: backgrounds, analogy, anxiety, lonely, longing,
Form: Sonnet

The Prayer of the Outsider

...The Prayer of the Outsider

(A little old lady whispers all alone in the cold. Looking up at the rain filled sky.)

Dear God 
You brought me to life from nothing

To try to do something

To ...
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Categories: backgrounds, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Generations

...I often ponder about the perpetuous anathema in my household, because growing up, that abominable behavior was quite normalized.
I’ve always heard derogatory, disrespectful remarks or comments, God,...
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Categories: backgrounds, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Premium MemberSuper Soupers

...I've roamed the halls of Poetry Soup for nearly nine years
and had lots of ups and downs, cried happy and sad tears
Some poets are super duper people that I call my 'friends'
There are some snoope...
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Categories: backgrounds, community, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Racism

...Racism you all know it isn't good,
It causes fights and it draws lots of blood.
We are all different colours we don't need to fight,
It really does not matter if your black or white.
Why does rac...
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Categories: backgrounds, discrimination, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExcuse Me: Say What: Are You Blind: Well I Never:

...I err on the side of formality in receipt of undetermined
gender-initiated contact via a surname known to me to be of two different genders, despite that, appropriates; 

To Whom It May Concern:
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Categories: backgrounds, analogy,
Form: Free verse

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