Best Deferment Poems

While unwilling to fight in Vietnam,                                       ...

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This boat is full,
A vessel overflowing.
In darkness people talk.
A child is crying.

I close my eyes,
Lock out the world.
I envision drab gloom
As sunlight on my begging husk;
The damp frazzles
As lightweight trunks
Around my gaunt calves.

We left, so many nights ago,
I lost count, it doesn't matter.
Deferment of death.
I...

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Arrogance fostered by entitlement
Bigotry in all its forms
Conceit beyond all reasonable norms
Demanding attitude of deferment.
Entitlement, did I mention this?
Forgetting an appointment, indeed
Goofing off on an hourly-wage job
Hearing a disapproving sarcastic hiss.
Intelligence wasted in a trivial pursuit
Junk mail! Junk mail! Junk mail!
Keeping a secret to thwart...

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What if....?
Death was a lottery,
With a Powerball price of a million dollars 
Will people still queue up to play?

What if death was a clock, and you had one option 
To either fast forward, pause, or rewind it; What will your option be?

What if death was...

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Dear Dad dear mum, I take this time
Writing my letter now, to thank all of you
For your own maximum, support and care
No one knows how, you loved and cared

Forty K you sent, to buy the charter
Fifteen thousand you sent, for VC’s upkeep
For instagram to buy,...

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There are things in my life of which I'm not proud
But my letting friends down tops the list, 
I guess I could let my mind walk in a cloud	
But the friends that I've lost are still missed.

Friendship can be offered to so many things, 
There...

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REFLECTIONS
Dr. James E. Martin

The year was nineteen sixty six,
I decided it was time for a major fix.
The war in Viet Nam was going strong,
I knew that for me it wouldn’t be long.

School deferment would soon be gone,
A profession “new” I’d soon be shown. 
Rather than...

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Freedom,
Written: by Tom Wright
1/24/03

The first draft
had it's inauguration at Calvary.
Jesus, being classified 4-A,
shed His blood to make men free.
He didn't die because he wanted to,
but realized, the situation required a sacrifice.
Since that time, when freedom has been tested,
good men have come forth and paid the...

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Thaw me from memory:
Suddenly the hard shell crumbles
The raw yolk leaks from my fingers in disgust
Expired years and anger tumbles -
This hardening shell in a deferment of memory
An eggless sentence comes to bird
Anger haggles for the meaning word
Melts silently.

It was a good fence
To watch across...

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Into my hands she commended her heart;
The altar raised on sandy shores with promise
Cradled her tender flesh warmed by her spirit.
So priceless and fragile, I handled it with care
To preserve and protect it from falling and breaking;
Yet, that precious heart would not beat for me,
And...

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Drivel and dribble lives sometimes derange
Pain and strain at times swim within range
No reason in any season life to imprison
No matter the dose, cause and pause of treason.
 
Drivel and drizzle lives sometimes sizzle
Distress and stress at times fizzle
No reason in any season life to...

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I know this sounds like theater
of the absurd,
but I wonder if healthy role play
might be left-brain's work ethic
inviting right-brain's first and last impassioned word.

We might pretend our LeftWing
loves to play
irresponsibly back and forth repositioning
while RightWing
is crazy busy with win/lose economics
and disempowering politics
of arduous fragmentation,

Where God...

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Too often 
 someone stretches the truth until it becomes the lie
and then defends its falsehood for all to hear and believe in
 but some wiser ones sense the truth that lay hidden
grab it by its fallacies and turn the tide to see reality,
 no...

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Can’t a rich corpse remain in a fridge
While the bereaved have gaps to still bridge?
The outrage that descends on faces
Varies with minds, background and races,
Deferment of interment a choice;
On the subject it can’t be one voice...

God had carried it out with Moses:
St. Jude Verse 9...

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The fine art of making excuses

which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
to be deported),
but necessitates more than a facile effort
linkedin to a working knowledge
of familial genetics ofttimes

discovering, revealing, and unearthing
locked up figurative ghosts in the...

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