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Best Detriment Poems

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Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: detriment, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member The Blue and the Grey
Under the canopy of the pine trees we lay
My brothers and I, and our mates the other three,
They wore a different uniform the colour grey
Yet...

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Categories: detriment, best friend, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love First
Sometimes Truth
is a bit too enlightening, 

eyes preferring haze
over prickly points
of stunning beams – 

when the
heart in shadow, a slow
peep can be preferred over a
sharp...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detriment, christian, forgiveness, friendship, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Crying In the Rain
Crying in the Rain
Lurking behind the curtain of world war ;
You cheer to a Monday Night Raw;
        ...

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Categories: detriment, abuse,
Form: Heroic Couplet
To See Eye To Eye
In blindness there is no peace



I walked in blindness
Upon the earth in darkness
For I only served myself.

I walked in ignorance
Upon the road of arrogance
And I...

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Categories: detriment, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Altruistic Ponderings
I wish someone would explain
To me how we can spend
Billions of tax dollars 
On space exploration
When we can’t even figure
Out how to erase hunger
And poverty.

Who...

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Categories: detriment, confusion, faith, sad, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer For Wisdom From God
Dear God, please grant me Your wisdom*, without defilement
…but so pure along sanctification’s fulfillment
Teach me Your truth against sinfulness-detriment
…never fallacious in assuring my redemption’s eternal...

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Categories: detriment, christian, courage, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Quieting Me
August 5 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 46-52

Key Verse – Jeremiah 47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou...

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Categories: detriment, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Definitions
Joy and pain…
Sun and rain…
Love and disdain-
Opposites existing simultaneously
To its own detriment.
One cancelling out the other…
Parasitic and unevenly yoked.

Through thick cumulative clouds
I was the sun…
The...

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© Keith Lea  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detriment, life
Form: Free verse
Our Environment Today
I was taught by   my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I...

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Categories: detriment, earth, farm, flower,
Form: Free verse
Y Ddraig Goch -The Red Dragon
Cherish her land, lovely boy!
Never let them come destroy!
Show the Welsh pride, lovely boy!
Sing aloud your heart and joy!

I met a Bard of ancient time
who...

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Categories: detriment, fantasy, history, me, heart,
Form: Englyn
Science and Man's Destiny
The knowledge I have given man
empowers him 
to chart his own destiny
Will it be for his betterment
or his detriment
I can only wait and see...

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Categories: detriment, future, life, science, technology,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Trump Is a Lunatic
Trump, from afar, is a lunatic, a maniac,
A complete unemotional psychopath.
He talks like an imbecile- a crazy, a loony
A very real alarmist sociopath.

Wanting the people’s...

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Categories: detriment, corruption, crazy, fear, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Things Fall Apart
Adamant mindsets
In a modern setup,
Vibrant visions evaporates
To emptiness, nothingness and waywardness.
Leaving the people in stark darkness,
Leading to nowhere,
As penury is declared "king",
Hunger succeeds the throne
As...

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Categories: detriment, black african american, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
If I Were An Elephant
If I were an elephant, I'd lumber around
Gracefully plodding on my stomping ground
If I were an elephant, I'd flap my ears
High above the savannah with...

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Categories: detriment, africa, animal, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs