Best Civic Poems

E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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"Made In China"

They can have my money
If it saves me money

The toys I played with when I was young,
Says I enjoyed their hands
The Labels read...

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When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Broken England
By Steven Cooke

My Brave ancestors of England,
Look away, for I offend thee.

For your England is no more.
Decay eats away at this fallen empire.
Your people...

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HIV Positive

I am HIV positive that I know,
But I will exercise my civic right,
As my blood continues to flow,
For my views to be heard I...

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I was driving with my friend Delia in my brand new Honda Civic
It was noon and we were on our way to see my Auntie,...

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How do I start retirement? With grandsons galore, cooking and cleaning, barrel of fun, and a runway to the twin cities. What’s next, you ask,...

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Giving's being charitable;
Giving openhanded;
Generous and benevolent;
Just and generous;
Bountiful, mean;
                ...

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Tanks

"Da Tanks, da Tanks."
The President is not Chairman Mao.  
Come on now!
Gads, what an ungrateful nation!

Perhaps haughty Don Lemon or
that court jester, Jim Acosta,
Two snobby...

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SIR ADAM AND MADAM EVE

     MADAM EVE walking in Eden garden at NOON
     Adam called EVE ‘MADAM...

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Out in small town Texas, a handshake is a deal.
Folks go to church on Sunday, say grace at every meal.
Men open doors for ladies, kids...

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BULLETS!

If there ever was a time in the history of human, it is now that one’s being is 
     bound to...

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THE BAWDIEST ONE

At one with the world is like knowing the universe of people.
You see that is because he or she is transparent.
Even when you...

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The apostate looked out his window,
and started to believe 
As genuflecting pylons, 
sent ramifications through the trees
Chaos looked at reason,
was it about to make a...

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[A] World is us.
[The] World is the universe.

Attuned to captivity from the freedoms denied to others internationally,
     only defines true political...

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