Best Civility Poems

Red hair protruding from the soldier’s cap
Bright sun and heat, his freckles clearly seen
How peacefully the lad appears to nap
Mae Caulfield moans while searching for her teen

Too young her son to know what he fought for
The gun they gave him longer than his legs
Already two...

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There's too much civility hanging out here
Will try to create mayhem while drinking a beer
For the common good
Will do what I should
But it may be too much for this mortal so mere


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Tortured by sheer civility 
Civility tortured by me
Duties lie in the world of pain 
Challenged by poetry 

Who dies, who lives, who cries for life
Meek in emotion for thee
Who dies, who lives, who cries for life
Death from civility...

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The words you can't ignore
the ideas unexplored
the exploited weakness of an ongoing war.
dig the paint from your nails, pull the screws from it's frame
bite down on the bullet as the bad blood is drained
swim through the clouds, and don't ever come down
talk to the half...

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It’s respecting your elders, 
And holding open doors;
Obeying your parents,
And doing your chores;

It’s holding your tongue, 
And being polite;
An overall knowing of,
What’s wrong and what’s right;

Being courteous and letting, 
Good manners shine through;
Removing your hat inside, 
Not wearing it backwards or askew;

Being cultured and gracious
To...

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Civility where have you gone and why have you gone missing
Since you left, all I hear, is an awful lot of hissing
No matter how I try, to avoid, unpleasant situations
They pop up wherever I go; no longer aberrations
Times are hard, it’s very sad, what so...

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"What is Civility to you?"

Civility
[si-vil-i-tee]
–noun,plural-ties. 
1.courtesy; politeness. 
2.polite action or expression: an exchange of civilities. 
3.Archaic. civilization; culture; good breeding. 

So Civility is being polite;
like opening doors for others or saying God bless you when someone sneezes...
But number 3.civilization combining: A Nation of Civil People...
I'm...

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Spent seventy cents on sentry saints
Though soul and spirit rebel with the pulse
I read their abuse with an effort of excuse
This rum, this loaf to feast is grossly imbalanced
These pennies paid with pains on African plains
Twice a dozen days my labor effort to afford
This gesture...

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Civility and Man: A Historical View

Since man began to populate the earth,
And feel the pull of Satan’s evil ways.
The angels came to teach the fallen souls: 
Proposing righteous ways to live earth days.
Decorum had been taught both then and now.
Man, Adam and his wife with...

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I have found that civility
Can diffuse most animosity
When applied with honesty,
And a heart in the correct vicinity

In our fast paced “modern” society
We are subject to a never ending drudgery 
Which has increased our susceptibility
To that which is opposed to the Divinity

Brothers and Sisters I implore...

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In the dark allies they hide with the muzzles of their guns and fly bullets with people screaming for safety out of dazzle.
Reading long speeches in suits they wove out of patriotism and deception
Greed, vanity become values they cherish as they suppress guilt and shame...

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Civility is a characteristic I wish to revive
Long dormant in our society, it is so rare
Since we all live together trying to survive
Let’s be nice to each other, showing we care.

I know everything is not sugar and spice
And into “every life some rain must fall,”
But,...

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Because I may have opposing views on certain issues
There are vastly more things we see eye to eye about,
There’s no reason for anyone to break out the tissues.

We would agree on the freedom to stand up and shout
And the right to peacefully protest social injustices,
There...

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They stole your light
The fire that you worked so hard to attain
Now lies in the hands of greed.

Your sacrifice lives on,
A testament to the ability that my kind can twist;
Even the holiest of holies.

They call it civility.
Its fuel is conformity, a chain that shackles the...

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Exponential growth
of capital and unkindness
in wildly unsustainable urban centers
viciously competes without more virtuous cycles
of silent wilderness integrity

NonCapitalized outside my tribe
compassion co-investments
enveloping local community resilience planning
for optimal health and safety

Community trauma prevention
through personal and public
intimate and cultural 
nonviolent
nonverbally sustained co-investments
in family and multiculturally extended friends,
sacred EarthTribe...

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