Best Degrading Poems

Once upon a time
I was merely prescient
in genes and blood
and air and water
and other ingestions
and digestions
of our ancestors.

Among these were Elders
who may have stopped along the banks
of the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers
to drink from their sacred streaming source
and fish
and camp under maples and oaks nearby.

When...

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Your verbal abuse 
is degrading and hurtful 
you lack true morals...

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Despicable

A descriptive word—
That’s always hitting its mark!
Attacks and hurts us . . . 
	Hateful, wicked, and cruel . . . 
Degrades the human spirit!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
June 23, 2017 (Tanka)...

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