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Best Acquisitions Poems

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Bane of Acquisitions
In its whisperings and articulations 
A searchlight into that hidden recess
The bane of acquisitions 
Becomes the flight from humility
On which freedom rests 
Shall we render...

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Categories: acquisitions, character, courage,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member The Day of the Quote Wars
IN HONOR OF THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL
My Friend John 

The Day (of the Quote Wars)

The Day was gray with wisps of smoke, like...

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Categories: acquisitions, allegory, funny, imagery, words,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Fine Art of Life
Champagne and wine
Elixirs of the elite's delight
beverages of the upper classes
as they rendezvous and converse
amid soirées decked in elegance
mingling among their 
	latest art acquisitions
		envied, even...

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Categories: acquisitions, appreciation, art, imagery, integrity,
Form: Free verse
My Best Teacher
I had some very good primary school teachers who were awesome 
But in all my schooling, one of my college instructors stood out to be...

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Categories: acquisitions, africa, arabic, culture, international,
Form: Prose Poetry
King Arthur
King Arthur

Pendragon a boy of fifteen unknown
But of Merlin about the accord
Shrouding Arthur's rightful identity: King Uther's
Son. Upon King Uther's demise England
Needed a Sovereign...one prophesied...

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Categories: acquisitions, adventure, history,
Form: Free verse



If This Is Freedom Take Me To Robinson Island
If this is freedom take me to Robinson Island

When shall we again sing the redemption songs?
The strings of freedom are long forgotten in my nation
Injustice...

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Categories: acquisitions, patriotic, political, , cute,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Inside Outdoor Voices
Just as honesty plants seeds of integrity
so too
vulnerability plants seeds of honesty.

My primary vocation
in this my gay grandfatherly retiring age
is to parent mindbody challenged adolescents
of...

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Categories: acquisitions, environment, family, health, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Zithering Low Downs
The shuttering crimes inflicted on the mind
Always causes havoc
In the state of the soul
The sudden mystification 
The conjuring realization to reality
The considerable paths of acquisitions
The...

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Categories: acquisitions, poetry,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Of Fatalism
*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay.

Of Fatalism

'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquisitions, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Georges Scoriety Bash
Picture this..? Seedy joint.'mediocre comedy one Kiev night.
Hunky billionaire bored and sour, joins his guests Uneventful hour.?
A pan faced man is on the stage, mocking...

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Categories: acquisitions, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken Pieces
Broken Pieces

There is a rare and beautiful vessel of pottery
Moulded and shaped to an exquisite piece of work
The potter’s loving hands have taken great care
To...

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© Grace Daub  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquisitions, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Assyrian Babbler

Emerald shiny baubles
attract wizard eyes ...
Balaam al-Oz
Assyrian acquisitions
be kryptonite-colored vanity
Ownership is an Alexandrian transaction,
a Grecian war rhetoric reaction
Gehazi greedy ... 
take all that your Philistine...

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Categories: acquisitions, history, identity, judgement, symbolism,
Form: Epic
We Live In Penury
All the comforts that modern life bestows
On the human race across the seven seas
Despite advances in material acquisitions
We still live in penury that is not...

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Categories: acquisitions, philosophy, poverty, satire, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Piper Comes For Role Modelless
He inhaled his addiction thinking my children wont follow my pathway
He failed his mission his son in school made a hollow clay ash tray
She e...

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Categories: acquisitions, caregiving, education, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural Highlights the Role of the Ambassador As the King's Messenger-Spy: Canto 69
The THIRUK-KURAL highlights the role of the AMBASSADOR* as the King's Messenger-SPY: THUUTHU, Canto 69

[*THUUTHU in Tamil translates as ENVOY and principally connotes variously as:...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquisitions, leadership, patriotic, political, power,
Form: Epigram

Book: Shattered Sighs