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Best Cheapened Poems

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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...

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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...

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Categories: cheapened, forgiveness, history, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
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...

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Categories: cheapened, allegory, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
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;...

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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...

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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...

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

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Categories: cheapened, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Blank 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...

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Categories: cheapened, caregiving, me, lost, lost,
Form: I do not know?
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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: cheapened, abuse, allegory, anger, community,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: cheapened, brother, christian, confusion, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: cheapened, change, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
That Deceitful Mouth
Don’t speak to me with that mouth
That deceitful mouth
Which lies while smiling to my face
 
Don’t speak through your weak mouth
Too weak to resist temptation
Whose...

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Categories: cheapened, lost love, loveme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Reflections of You, Down and Dirty
Illegible thoughts penned through blind fingers find an audience of one pathetic.
Lying upon a pointed side, drunk with sorrows' wine, I emit no care or...

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Categories: cheapened, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things