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Best Cheapened Poems


Love Like Codeine
...your love was pure
pure like fire
ephemeral and fleeting
and bore a desire

now lost and broken
contemptuous of what's cheapened
I dream of illusions
though I am not sleeping

your love was......

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© Chris Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheapened, humor, humorous, lonely, lost
Form: Ode
South African Freedom Day
...freedom day 
(april the 27th 1994)


far too many brave compatriots died

and

flooding rivers of tears were cried

far too many families ripped apart

with

daggers cutting into their heart

the pai......

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Categories: cheapened, forgiveness, history, hope, life,
Form:
Teeth Clutched In Furious Fists
...Teeth clutched in furious fists,
Miles high above the mists,
Eyes thrust on identity’s this,
A smile wandering far amiss.

So this is the face of a simile,
Resting peacefully in eternity,
Here......

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Categories: cheapened, allegory, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

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An Un-Godly Sale
...There was a giant sale last Saturday.
An unbelievable one!
Such  civilization: how far we’ve come,
Many came to partake from all walks of life.

What a deal; what a steal.
That store it seems, in rea......

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Categories: cheapened, children, friendship, love, light,
Form: Rhyme
My Hijab
...I am a real Muslim woman 
The one that obey the rules of my unseen God 
And give total submission to the prophet teaching 
To wear hijab and be free from all conundrum of life 

I am a real Musl......

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Categories: cheapened, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miss Teenage Hawaii
...My birthright are the emerald islands in the sparkling
Waters of the Pacific Ocean,
With the beckoning sun, the cresting waves, and the jeweled sands,
A paradise in the lore of sailors far and wid......

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© Thomas Hsi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheapened, angst, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Women Only
...Lady's I ask permission can I speak of my troubles
Men I can not help you cause all you do is betray me
But Lady's I can relate too
Because I can feel their heartbreaks
They are the best thing that e......

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Categories: cheapened, caregiving, me, lost, lost,
Form:
Premium Member I Call Him Friend
...I have a friend with no bound’ries, no corners,
Preferring to just sleep around,
If he should vanish, I know where I’ll find him,
For sure, a new girlfiend he’s found.

As a lover, I know, he is......

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Categories: cheapened, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Blank verse
Neither Black Nor White
...by Michaelw1two

 What colour, does one think a soul,
 its fire our lives do need;
 purpose of it questionable,
 perhaps flesh, is shell for it's seed;
 determines in scope our natures',
 upon it hum......

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Categories: cheapened, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Understanding the Bible
...Quotes:
1. "Doubt is not the absence of faith - certainty is!"  Karen Armstrong

therefore

2. "It is impossible to be a true Christian and not have doubts!"   Brian Johnston

3. “For b......

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Categories: cheapened, bible, blessing, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pulp Diction
...I've had enough of the usless drivel, hypersenitivity and endless snivels
We're more fulfilled I hear so often, yet the fruit on show to me seems rotten!
A girl of 9 cut down by a gun, floods of dr......

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Categories: cheapened, abuse, allegory, anger, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche......

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheapened, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Time For Change
...I believe there are still honest politicians
Who try to do their best for our country,
While others, out of grandiose ambitions
Couldn’t give a fig, to put it rather bluntly.
Some fas......

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Categories: cheapened, change, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
God's Definition of Marriage
...God designed marriage as the real thing!
Anything less, is what a counterfeit brings!

His concept of one man and woman is very real.
He’s not interested in bowing to “man’s appeal.”

His court......

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Categories: cheapened, brother, christian, confusion, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Putrid Peace Plan for Israel
...

Lasting peace since time began, was never won nor made by man.
Treaties are made, then hastily broken, like cheapened, tin cans.

Israel was just offered to capitulate to all inhumane, dem......

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Categories: cheapened, abuse, anti bullying, how
Form: Rhyme

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