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Best Black Market Poems

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Poets
Poets
Why is it poetry, is a like dirty word and talked of in undertones?
It’s like a naughty postcard, more flesh than there are bones.
Poets tend...

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Categories: black market, confusion, funny, art, art,
Form: Quatrain



My Red-Tailed Hawk
He was mighty as could be venturing down by the sea,
revered as the king soaring over his golden throne-
He was respected yet felt neglected and...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black market, beauty, bird, depression, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Black Poem
Bang, bang, bang, black minds open,
Black eyes seeing black blood spluttering on the black board,
Black tears from black eyes,
Black man in black out,
Black people eating...

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Categories: black market, africa,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Say It How It Is In My Eyes
Strange this all falls on deaf ears 
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish 
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes...

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Categories: black market, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Brighter Tomorrow
a brighter tomorrow

do you remember blue,

back in the days when whores
were temple women 
welcoming stranger and friend alike
into warm passionate embrace
in the service of the...

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Categories: black market, abuse, anger, betrayal, blue,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sunday Morning Programme
Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer...

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Categories: black market, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Imagism
Global Dystopia
Mogadishu ...
Black Hawk helicopter down
Caracas ...
Riots burning everything to the ground
New Orleans ...
Katrina tears has gotten many more drowned
Manila ...
Government death squads are roaming around

Global...

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Categories: black market, death, pain, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Armadilly Billy and the Buzzard Rustlers
Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster, was the Sheriff of our town.
When mangy rustlers went into action, he was wont to hunt them down.
‘The Buzzard’...

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Categories: black market, adventure, fantasy, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Dvd Lady
The DVD lady came over today
And she was Chinese
She knocked at my door
And as soon as I opened,
“You wanting teefeetee pleeease?”

“I haw new mowie and...

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Categories: black market, funny, people
Form: Rhyme
Guns and Roses

First person shooter,
on a hate tour of duty,
swinging a bullet sling blade
Buying a death row ticket,
worth fifteen minutes of fame
First person murder shooter;
womb-to-the-cradle-to-the-grave robber,
using your...

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Categories: black market, dark, death, violence, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Like You
pitter patter acid rain waxing hi-gloss
smoky sky-scratching monster coup
fearless hue self-out stabbing acrylic nails'
bond to black market sale-deal rape
indian tears too few to cleanse
the polluted...

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Categories: black market, confusion, imagination, introspection, political
Form: Alliteration
The Wall Has Got Eyes and Ears
Who speaks does indeed lie,
Who does not, surely knows more,
But keeps silent by fear to die,

The Walls have ears,
To listen and hear,
The brother became a...

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Categories: black market, abuse, africa, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Howling At the Moon

Black market product truckload ... 
illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise,
and plenty boxed liquor of trouble
Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde
riding shotgun,
with a Rambo knife hugging...

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Categories: black market, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form: Ode
Prostitute
My heart
fell into the wrong hands
My love
was sold on the black market
My virginity
was stolen from me
by a pimp with a penchant
for sweet talking
Now I'm a...

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Categories: black market, dark, lust, men, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Politics In Bangladesh Ii
Power tends to corrupt
And absolute power corrupts absolutely
This is so true in the political arena of Bangladesh

The ruling party has made the justice department 
And...

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Categories: black market, inspirational, life, people, political,
Form: Free verse

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