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Best Demotion Poems

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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: demotion, space, body, planet,
Form: Rhyme



Side Effect of Pluto's Demotion
It was called a planet when I was young
Placed in the Milky Way  after the "big bang"

Pluto is the Roman's underworld god
Hades to the...

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© John Boak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demotion, education, philosophy, world, education,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sins of Ancestry
Burning in black flames of eternal woes,
my heart yearns to find answers it's needing.
Skin begins to wilt like a winter rose,
bruised from deep wounds of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demotion, angst, life,
Form: Sonnet
I Am Blessed
I am blessed, I am loved
 His grace and mercy upon my life
 Is greater than the universe’s dimension
 And all of Earth’s demission and...

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Categories: demotion, appreciation, bible, blessing, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Living Formula
Lines of beauty and layers of devotion.
Their very fast queries have come to demotion.
Words that cannot be limited in any way.
The evil has taken hold...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demotion, analogy, appreciation, beauty, faith,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Decayed
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
 
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In...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demotion, analogy, angst, bereavement, care,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Same Ol' Song and Dance
As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and...

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Categories: demotion, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Torture's Toxic Contagion
Torture’s Toxic Contagion
                  by Odin Roark

From where comes...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demotion, evil, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Life Must Go On
There was this season for many reason
A failed ambition or bad decision
Too much subtraction, no single addition
Pictures of low resolution, everything in demotion
But surely... Life...

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Categories: demotion, life, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Numbers Count On Themselves
Numbers Count On Themselves

3’s make love in the open 
Twist with trees that turn from Winter
Count on music to reveal Spring
Several 7’s take lessons on...

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Categories: demotion, business, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Indirect Self Afflicted Tribulation: a Situation Never To Be
My lateness once more has caused me immediate damnation,
and my unstable state, a product of my lost attention.
Overcoming the limitation by doing three person's work...

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Categories: demotion, adventure, allegory, confusion, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Crowded Loneliness
~~~ {There's a crowd, there's a crowd, there's a crowd of 
loneliness} ~~~ 

Here I sit surrounded by party people bizz, buzzing gleefully. 
But I'm...

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Categories: demotion, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Stallin
We are aesthetic in our congregation-
promotionally enthusiastic to see the next outing,

our outcroppings stupendously aligned to the demotion of the great race's need for participating...

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Categories: demotion, political, school, self, technology,
Form: Prose
A Morsel
A MORSEL
This is a sweet  bitter morsel
It is very  bitter and sweet 
It is sweet as honey
And bitter as bile
A morsel  of...

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Categories: demotion, art,
Form: Pastoral
Mutiny In Trees
The water has receded
And I can see everything
in the bottom of the stream
Big pebbles of assorted colors
covering each other
frogs scampering about
and big fish meddling around
I...

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Categories: demotion, change, environment, goodbye, leaving,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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