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Best Controversy Poems

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Premium Member LIFE IS NOT A BATTLE FIELD
Be strong in your beliefs and opinions 
Give and receive them respectfully 
Discuss , debate, disagree , 
Devoid of anger and intimidation 
Be polite and...

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Categories: controversy, anti bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Power
April 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 23-25

*2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle:...

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Categories: controversy, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She a Dream Raven, Ghost of Ill Repute
(1.)
Beware, Nightmarish Dreams Are Oft By Raven Sent,
(In Tribute To Edgar Allen Poe)

When incantations stoke fiery embers,
eerie nights, their sounds roust to remember
ghosts of yesteryears,...

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Categories: controversy, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Me, Set Me Free
I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From...

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Categories: controversy, cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Blood of Your Passion
He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought...

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Categories: controversy, allegory, america, angst, today,
Form: Prose Poetry



Revere the Founding Fathers, Part Ii
...And Alexander Hamilton,
though know for controversy,
served alongside Washington
in the war to make us free.
Helped build up our new armed forces,
set the stage for our economics,
the...

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Categories: controversy, america, appreciation, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dark Green Conifers
another day in the woods. on Strawberry ridge
looking out over undulating green hills to
the next great wall of mountains. the last
morning clouds left from last...

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Categories: controversy, day, green, inspiration, morning,
Form: Verse
Demotion of Pluto
The world’s astronomers after a tumultuous debate
have decided to reduce the number of planets to eight.
Little Pluto out in the reaches of the solar system
has...

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Categories: controversy, space, body, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Say I Say
He wrote down his ideas
So that the whole world could see
He held them with conviction
Creating controversy

There were different opinions
Each person expressed their own
An exchange of...

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Categories: controversy, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Embroiled
You’re feeling so uncomfortably 
				like a lobster lately,
embroiled in hot controversy
Heated debates swirling all around you,
as your deep-fried life
jumps from the frying pan to the...

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Categories: controversy, food, funny, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Aborted Rights Remain Valid Facts To Speak Up
Attempts to cull the human unborn have caused mass controversy 
despite the widespread damage this can cause to the population 
under stable growth moving forward...

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Categories: controversy, abortion, abuse, anger, animal,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Turning To Cicero
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and...

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Categories: controversy, history, social,
Form: Free verse
Chemicaly Inbrain Chemically Insane
Chemicaly InBrain? Chemically Insane?
people so quick to turn to science for answers,
but can't understand chemicals in the brain?
Such sheltered mentality here,
an unbalance has been placed,
with...

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Categories: controversy, drink, drug, mental illness,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Fate Once Birthed Lovers, Golden True and Dear Third Poet Honored, From My Dedication Series
(2)*Second poem honoring Edgar Allan Poe*

Fate Once Birthed Lovers, Golden True And Dear

We had raced a good race, with wind cool and fair,
There were romantic...

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Categories: controversy, appreciation, art, dark, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Well Done
I ask God to help me
When I can’t seem to pray
The sorrows are all around me
I just don’t know what to say

I ask God to...

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Categories: controversy, christian, devotion, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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