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Basic Needs Poems - Poems about Basic Needs

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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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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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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Categories: basic needs, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, life, old, perspective, winter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member 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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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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Categories: basic needs, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, holocaust, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: basic needs, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: basic needs, death, longing, loss, mother
Form: Haibun
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. ......

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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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Categories: basic needs, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

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