Best Appropriation Poems

APPROPRIATION

Who said you were unworthy
put that notion in your head
extracting souls expression
forcing theirs on you instead

Who called you undeserving
to convey your deep desires
develop unique passions
lifting...

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The baren bones lay bare across the fields of alliteration 
Unnecessary abstraction leaves the bourgeois man bereft of care
And yet, the obliviously self aware give...

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my symbolic house
my purple castle
invaded by red clowns
a dialogue
contradicting personal icons
denying synthesis
denying art
trespassing
poaching
unbalancing decentring crucifiers
tearing the paper they make of my mind
tearing tissue
cells sinew flesh...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent...

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They Called Him Diamond

They called him Diamond still do and his colour is black like 
scorched earth frozen shadows of hell shafted and grafted on...

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The American eagle, called bald ‘cos of its pure white head, 
Is named Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from the Greek;
Hali means  "sea", aietos means “eagle", leuco...

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I am corruption
A citizen of all Nations
The UN calls me complex social, cultural and economic phenomenon
Nevertheless, I do not mind
Countries of the world detest me...

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(Introductory Note - my daughter (12) wrote this while she was required to sit in a room
with other students and study for the SAT. ...

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I can't believe that he could claim
A poem by Edgar Allan Poe,
Titled as is,  but with his name!
That is plagiarism, we know!

Wallace Stevens, Stephen...

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Mary and Joseph fairly did it,
That night when they each gave, 
Everything to the other, 
In energetic zealous rave.

Heaven and earth co-aligned, 
Stars shone just...

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WORDS THAT STRIVE TO RHYME

“Listless” in “Perfect isolation” I “Collide”
“Soul gazing”
“Escape from self” as the “Child inside”-
“Obsessive compulsive poet”

“Heavens heartbeat” an “Interlude” with
“Angels”
“Scent to remind...

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All the morals and ethics in the world
As principles and values unfurled,
Mean nothing without appropriation
Into heart and soul with approbation.
We must absorb truth into our...

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Since industrialization there’s been agitation frustration palpitation trepidation vociferation
And unequivocal asseveration in favour of our planet’s welfare glorification and protection

Premeditated or not, the results on...

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Mr. Butcher, the undertaker, did a capital job of laying old Cheatum out,
Though he had to cram him in the casket since the senator was...

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If I could sing a song of furtherance, 
There would be a score and a door;
Demonstration would exemplify, 
What we learn and store. 

Appropriation would...

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