Best Dispute Poems

Santa stood in the warehouse
Full of nearly empty shelves
Last night they’d been ram raided
By a bunch of discontented elves

Recently infiltrated and recruited 
Into an association of packing staff
Whose ideas and demands and wants
Caused Santa to cynically laugh.
He could have held out for longer
That much was...

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Really from a flute but sounds like a clarinet
strong drag from the top magnifies the fishing net
soul is passionless
task is motionless
nothing is done but works more than a cabinet....

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dispute arises only from difference of choices coupled with self esteem...

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The perpetual calendar must be wrong! 
It says I was born on December 5, 1941… 
     a Friday, 
But that can’t be, for Mama washed clothes 
     and hung them out on the line 
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It’s useless to insist on certain things,
without openness and willingness –
to understand the difference, live with it;
as formed to be flexible and transparent.

  Among the issues most likely dealt with,
  are those alluded to human relationships;
  these mean so much as engraved...

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Dispute the fact,of the ill-mannered man.
His eye's obscured,
he don't understand.

So things are cofusing,
well it's not so amusing.

Your world is full of,
the ungodliest pleasures,
nightmares, fantasy's,
and obscene jestures.

If you could know love,
from a humble childs heart.
You could fit in society,
and make a new start.

Oh but you have...

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Now that you've convinced me, and I've convinced you
We still stand here stuck with two points of view

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Your country against my country
Why are you guys trying to break the county?
With markers already placed at the borders 
Yet you try and claim what is ours.

You are not satisfied with your own 
That you avoid what is known
You got yours; we got ours
So leave...

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"Thou shall not kill"
Was etched in stone
High on a mountain top
As if God cracked
His funny bone
And no one heard it pop

We kill to eat
And not just meat
But weeds and insects, too
And no one grieves
For garden thieves
Who stop by for a chew

Our need for food
Fuels endless...

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Sacrifice made when selecting abode
Unit not ideal, but affordable close to City
With a three year old daughter, I worried
About noise transference below and above

Three level town house style was unique 
Huge unit fronted four smaller behind
Unkemp front garden claimed as mine
Little individual porch, door faced...

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Together – he and I – him and me
We grow things in abundance
Green beans, tomatoes, squash
Okra, calves, chicks and pigs
Guineas and turkeys, some kittens
A puppy who is mostly grown
But never too old to play

Together – we – us – our
Hearts thrive on a world
Of abundance,...

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She struggles with a pen
She is castrated man
Your manic, damned nightmare
She's a dickless sychophant
Overgeneralize
You've fallen for a lie
You're so hopelessly blind
She wields you as a knife
She will cut herself open
She will make you stay, watch it
She will do it again
As long as you're her man
You...

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Sometimes I've got to ask-
And can't help but exhort aloud
Am I haunted, Rask?
In this aging house
Where my granny passed
Grandpa died in this room
Marks were left of you
It's about time that I moved

We have a little boy
And a little girl
Or am I paranoid?
My bones ache just...

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Rivalry
             innocuous dispute
             through the spaces between
             the cat...

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They were haunting me
And now they want to be
Engraved
In stone
Somewhere
But hardly will I share
What they made me
We aren't as open as they think
We are closed books
The writer waits for me
Life is better when
Those voices that you keep
Sing in harmony
Together, company

And if you want to be...

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