Best Depravation Poems


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 perpetration
though I propose wit......

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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 was not nor am I now.
I guess some things are best walked a......

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Categories: depravation, lost love, me, old,
Form: Free verse
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

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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 
his scarred broken shoulders deprived of not ......

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Categories: depravation, power,
Form: Narrative
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 morning
good night 

ride a......

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravation, art, beauty, conflict, dream,
Form:
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 fascination did begin

The programming choic......

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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 sunrise
of miser......

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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 wor......

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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 society changing I am staggered at some of the rules
No longer do we h......

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© Roy May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depravation, politicalsociety,
Form:
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 and
Haunts a ricochet around the room
Of some re......

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Categories: depravation,
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 to the harvest or anything else we might and should be grateful for during
  ......

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Categories: depravation, environment,
Form: Free verse
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 on flickering

When outside all these flashing lights
The......

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Categories: depravation, write, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
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 flickering, all these flashing light......

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Categories: depravation, write, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
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 had been an u......

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Categories: depravation, immigration,
Form: Free verse
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
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