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Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: deportation, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Take My Hand Not My Life
Take My Hand Not My Life

Life special moments of splendors
Smoldering away like embers
Silently yearning to be wanted 
But always undesired
~
Take my hand not my life
~
Tolerate...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deportation, abuse, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Illegal Immigration
The hour of darkness covers many men.
They enter foreign soil illegally.
En mass invasion time and time again.
The problem is arithmetically 
impossible to stop. Deportation 
is...

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Categories: deportation, politicaltime,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deportation, bullying, immigration, prison, religion,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2
Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in...

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Categories: deportation, assonance, bible, courage, daughter,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Aliens
Dragon loves his penguins! Oh that we know quite well.
So…Dragon ask for their own little, silver, fire retardant, suits, do tell!
Oh Lord A Mercy! The...

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Categories: deportation, adventure, animal, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
The American Presidential Election
The American Presidential Election on 8th November 2016
Will determine the nation’s future policies and government
Its candidates will qualify by caucuses and primaries successes
And all most...

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Categories: deportation, america, environment, future, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Was Runnin' Things
I've given the plight of kids crossing our border thoughtful consideration.
I would like to propose a panacea that might ease this critical situation.
I recommend that...

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Categories: deportation, humorous, political,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Take My Hand Not My Life
Take My Hand Not My Life

Life special moments of splendors
Smoldering away like embers
Silently yearning to be wanted  
But always undesired
~
Take my hand not my...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deportation, abuse, cute, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
My First Poetry Reading In Public
My first poetry reading on April 15, 2011 at Café Jolesch in Zittau

This evening I read the first five of my poems before an audience...

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Categories: deportation, placesapril, culture, me, poems,
Form: Narrative
Politics At Play
Here we go, 
        so far from in the know.
How did these candidates get chosen,
  	funded by...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deportation, angst, corruption, political, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Being a Superhero ,Stop the Crime and Save the Whole Universe:
Being A Superhero ,Stop the crime and Save the whole universe:
Fight crimes and save lives.
With superpowers, one day.
Might save the planet!
Are we truly pure?
Innocent mortals...

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Categories: deportation, peace, spoken word, violence,
Form: Free verse
Upside Down World
If you keenly gaze upon the world of today,
you'll realize we're existing in a world where the things
you care about have been thrown out of...

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Categories: deportation, conflict, confusion, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Todtnauberg
Paul Celan (1920 in Cernauti, Romania  - 1970 in Paris) was a poet and translator. Paul
Antschel was born into a Jewish family in Romania,...

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Categories: deportation, peopledeath, work, death, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
Transition
Transitions are hard, and at times can be scary. 
Like Frankenstein coming up out of the grave, 
Or the devil staring you down with a...

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Categories: deportation, appreciation, jesus, moving on,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs