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Best Depravation Poems

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Premium Member Sleep Depravation
Stinging eyes, lifeless
I'm longing for my pillow
What will tonight bring...

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Categories: depravation, lifelonging,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
Exclusive Birth Rights

I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...

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Categories: depravation, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Swimming In Blood
Did I know this dissention might come to be?
Yes I was aware of its probability.
Did that make me any more prepared for the situation?
No I...

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Categories: depravation, lost love, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Good Morning Good Night
good morning 
good night

i walked the shadows of hidden meadows until there was a sign to the right, 
you were bathing in the light, then it all fell flat 

good...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravation, art, beauty, conflict, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member They Called Him Diamond
They Called Him Diamond

They called him Diamond still do and his colour is black like 
scorched earth frozen shadows of hell shafted and grafted on...

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Categories: depravation, power,
Form: Narrative



Remembering Tv of the 1950s
Remembering TV of the 1950s

By Elton Camp

About TV, this little account is told
From when I was twelve years old
Because it was along about then
When TV...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Absurdity
Absurdity 

Behind the closed portal and the open door,
stands the lonely legless man with his paramour.
He is singing silently
in the peace of night violently
a nocturnal...

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Categories: depravation, confusion, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Firestorms
A. W. Nutter

Firestorms struck, killing man kind
Ivory towers quickly turning to dust
Treasures and fortunes all left behind
Melting, burning and gathering rust

Nuclear winter, locks the world...

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Categories: depravation, imagination, natural disasters, religion
Form: Rhyme
Down With the Nanny State
( The views of a grumpy old man )

I have now for certain concluded that the nanny state thinks we are fools
I have seen our...

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravation, politicalsociety,
Form: I do not know?
Return To Sender
The wind is bickering with the night
My poor house caught up in the middle
Pawing and retreating then pouncing like a cat
It drums at the windows...

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Categories: depravation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Customs
At Customs

Delayed fatigued grumpy and miserable there was I
yet another queue at Oliver Tambo on arrival another

Check scan body search and
mind games in my baggage

Damascus...

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Categories: depravation, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day

      ~ pretty weird that it is necessary to have one day allocated during the year to give 
thanks...

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Categories: depravation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Rapid Eye Movment
Will I ever find that place of relaxation
Again I'm awake, I'm completely weird
It's a bad case of sleep depravation
That’s why I'm always so dam tired

Eyes...

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Categories: depravation, write, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ubuntu a Paradigm Shift
Ubuntu

P andemonium the polymorph perverse un-reflected paradigm of our time casts

A narchy tumultuous turmoil killing sprees beheadings senseless hatred and results from   ...

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Categories: depravation, love, war,
Form: Acrostic
Rems
And here I am again completely weird
But the clock it just keeps on ticking
But not the only reason why I'm tired
And my eyes they keep...

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Categories: depravation, write, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs