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Basic Needs Poems - Poems about Basic Needs
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Kvetching
...If all your basic needs are met, Your bills are paid, no cause to fret, Whatever food you want, you’ll get – It’s then you can be kvetching. For if you have no place to sleep And hunger makes......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
basic needs,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
Key
...You found the door - The door which protected my worst nightmares I didn't know existed, and sheltered the basic needs my heart shunned but never new it pined for Tell me you didn't You fo......
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Rebecca Kiser
Categories:
basic needs,
depression, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Heaven and Earth Will Pass
...Scattered without wind as though on wings gmo seeds land on lava rocks and icy hills will there be spring? Aged old wheel shooting double beams lowers lid on eye turning noon to night wi......
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Frances Schiavina
Categories:
basic needs,
god,
Form:
Free verse
Becoming a Dog
...Like in the depths of summer There is a dogs days of winter When inside is the best place to be And dogs just want to lay around sleeping The older I get the more like them I become Contented ......
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James Moore
Categories:
basic needs,
life, old, perspective, winter,
Form:
Narrative
The Final Cut
...Working on compiling this book of grandpa wisdom, Harder than choosing which old poems to include Is cutting off the ongoing output of new ones! But I do want to get it done, And I really don’t......
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James Moore
Categories:
basic needs,
humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Thanks Giving Day
...Thanksgiving Day comes this one day a year A simple reminder To enjoy the simplest things in life The nourishment of basic needs Of family and friends (food and football!) In whatever passes for......
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James Moore
Categories:
basic needs,
celebration, family, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Narrative
The Gift
...A gust of wind Blew through my door Placing gently on the floor A gift from Mother Nature’s store Such beauty, such delicacy Woven by the burly tree Made me stop. Made me ponder Then take sto......
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Pamela Moorcroft
Categories:
basic needs,
earth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Isreal and Palestine RAP
...Israel: Yo, I’m Israel, the land of the brave, From ancient times, my roots engrave. A homeland promised, a dream fulfilled, In '48, my state was willed. I built my cities, made deserts bloom,......
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Billy Thekidster
Categories:
basic needs,
war,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Palestine
...In '48, a state was born, But for Palestine, a time to mourn. Nakba came, with lands displaced, A people scattered, dreams erased. In '67, the war did rage, West Bank, Gaza, a new stage. O......
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Billy Thekidster
Categories:
basic needs,
holocaust, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything Except His Love
... "I Am as I Am complete Though ego opines otherwise Invoking grace we feel God’s heartbeat What else does there remain for us to realize" Once you have truly f......
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Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
basic needs,
analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Just Me
...I’m ok being amethyst alone No one to share my humble home with I guess I do miss a kiss But is that lust or just Just an infatuation to resist I think I’m too selfish to love him And at the......
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Karen Jones
Categories:
basic needs,
appreciation, art, feelings, how
Form:
Rhyme
Not Really Very Much
...What do people really need To live a life that’s guaranteed To let them blossom and succeed? Not really very much. A home they like and clothes to wear, Some friends and family who care, A jo......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
basic needs,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Treasure Box
...It's a nondescript shoe box. Maybe it contained my husband's shoes. That's why it's so big. The lid doesn't come off, but falls to the side.. still attached. A strange place to keep love. Perhaps. Bu......
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Eileen Manassian
Categories:
basic needs,
death, longing, loss, mother
Form:
Haibun
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. ......
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Margarita Lillico
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." ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
basic needs,
adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
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