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Best Decency Poems


Premium Member Giving Decency a Voice
In the dreary tune of a city's groan,
when streets escape the raging claws
of  haggard breaths, a line of stars blink
trading some warmth with human arms...

beyond sighing notes the dusk possesses,
there are more wrists handcuffed on tainted
steel of unjust labor for children and women
who toil...

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Categories: decency, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance
The Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance

It’s funny how perceived intelligence 
Is not necessarily a measure of true smarts 
How the genius, the barrister and the eloquent 
Can miss the point from the very start 

It’s quite bemusing to observe her lack of self-awareness
And confusing...

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Categories: decency, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Common Sense and Decency
Common Sense is uncommon, I'm told

       while Plain, Old-Fashioned Decency

             is neither plain nor old...

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Categories: decency, character,
Form: Epigram

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Categories: decency, adventure, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Blank verse
Decency
The decency.


With relation to the horizon I am a walking vertical.

I justify it by standing in a line of the same lines

near a coffee boot.

I will certainly be punished for behaving differently

from the ideal of straightness.

I pretend not to understand that

'there' coffee is not sold.

Closeness.

I...

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Categories: decency, addiction, adventure, art, chocolate,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member In Decency - a Question
In decency you trust?

   Indecency's lust ~

 Indecent, some busts...

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Categories: decency, body, lust, satire, word
Form: Monorhyme



Arrowhead Decency
Give me arrowhead decency
A supreme meaning to see
Beyond embattlements and car parts
After hustle bustle relapse 
To witness standing strong 

Cause I'm strung out, overloaded, debugged
Drifting midnight's icy whisper dangled
From crocodile boots and machete clearing

Out in the open hoping 
Rope will wrastle my animal farm
Yet Orwell's...

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Categories: decency, childhood, urban,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Comment On Decency and Morality
Comment On Decency And Morality

This ole earth sets its unholy record
as sin is so often celebrated
The bad walk with chins and chest puffed out
streets danger from the inebriated.

Robert J. Lindley, Feb 2nd 1971
Quatrain

Note; My friend Jimmy, died this last weekend due to his driving drunk.
A...

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Categories: decency, art, best friend, car,
Form: Quatrain
Culture Of Decency
Respect for women
Is culture of good decency
Which rooted in home....

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Categories: decency, character, culture, women,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member For Democracy and Decency
I’m sorry but I can’t pretend or meditate it away
Watching Americans becoming predators after human prey
I think of all the police now at home bruised and broken
Who fought for so many lives without the respect of so many unspoken
Then at the dog park, two women...

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Categories: decency, america, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Pride and Joy
Pride......and joy?

Pride is thinking that you know too much 
Thinking that the love you have is even half enough
It's clinging to honesty as if heard earnestly spoken
Or getting hurt and saying bones and will aren't broken
It's setting aside the friendships that build us up
And giving...

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Categories: decency, anger, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Rampant Lethargy
R is for the repeated distortions of facts,
A for press articles written with hacks,
M for the emphasis placed on survival,
P for the piss taken out of your rival.
A for analogies that never convince,
N for false narratives making us wince,
T for traditional values cast-off
  ...

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Categories: decency, analogy, career, dream, emotions,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Red Or Blue
Living a 3D technology 
in our visual world of reality 
where one is so much less without the other
Two realities side by side
in it’s depths we came alive
seeing through each lens of a different color
 
Now it seems we’ve fallen flat
stabbed dimension in the back
as...

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Categories: decency, appreciation, blue, conflict, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saving Liberty
We find Liberty has left us as we left our guard,
allowing hate and dishonesty to prosper unbarred.
We tempted fate, then saw cruelty's depth
as we watched a man die while pleading for breath.

Strong words either left or came at us fast,
as we longed for the future...

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Categories: decency, betrayal, conflict, integrity, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Here I Am
Here I am at the crossroads 
Staring blankly at the inky dark sky

Beaten to a pulp and helpless 
By forces of darkness 

Here I am lying in the pool of my emotions 
Clutching at every straw
To maintain sanity and stability

Here I am a victim of...

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Categories: decency, absence, allusion, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

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