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Best Double Standards Poems

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Premium Member Double Standards Withstanding
I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of...

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Categories: double standards, allegory, feelings,
Form: Quatrain



Double Standards
When one makes viable peace 
Between erstwhile colonial whites 
And erstwhile colonized blacks 
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such...

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Categories: double standards, conflict, peace, political,
Form: Free verse
Double Standards
You don't miss a slice off a cut loaf
At least that's what most cheaters would say. 
But they're not talking about their wives
Because in their...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: double standards, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: double standards, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swimming with sharks
In times where eyes are fixated at your sins, 
judgment trolls in deceptive double standards. 
When pointing fingers nobody really wins, 
there's no joy in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: double standards, judgement,
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member Borderline Love
It's difficult, but please try to understand,
my behaviour is something I cannot command.
At first I'll be serene like a sweet daydream,
but then unstable and intensely...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: double standards, mental illness, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Nonstick Coating
He’s the Politician’s politician
Amazing all with the ease
He cruises through public life
Somehow avoiding all the sleaze.
It seems he’s Teflon coated
Pulling all the dirty tricks
Yet when...

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Categories: double standards, betrayal, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Stereotype
Live by Stereotype,
Die by Stereotype,
Living superficially with double standards,
Racism, sexism, Haters,
Hating on who you want to be,
Who you were,
and who you are,
Biasing opinions on bad...

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Categories: double standards, life, nostalgia, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Crime of Passion
You wonder how our love has died
It’s murder...by MY hand
A Crime of Passion’s what it is
I hope you understand

I spilt the blood of dying love
Put...

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Categories: double standards, love, passion, woman, ,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Truth Is All An Act In Government Exposed
One small little country which houses 
one of the highest paid governments 
in this modern world joke ran upside down

A big part of our life...

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Categories: double standards, betrayal, ireland, political, rights,
Form: Political Verse
Give Peace a Chance Part 1
Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble 
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this...

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Categories: double standards, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Question
True love is unquestionable. 
What is true love?
To me; it is more feeling based rather than definitively worded. 
Emotional attached, formed mentalities that are equally...

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Categories: double standards, conflict, confusion, fun, true
Form: Free verse
Disappointment
"Disappointment"

YOU SHOULD RAAGE...
Against protestors pushed out the city parks.
RAAGE...
Against black women beaten on the freeway.
RAAGE...
Against shooting best friends accidentally.
RAAGE...
Against some deep protect and serve concrete...

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Categories: double standards, america, anger, discrimination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Raage
YOU SHOULD RAAGE...
Against your Civil rights being disregarded.
RAAGE...
Against children playing with toy guns blown away.
RAAGE...
Against seeing mother grieve over her dead teen.
RAAGE...
Against some deep protect...

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Categories: double standards, conflict, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Branded Soul
Judgement day is every day when you're trying to survive in a decent way. Clean up your life and move away, to a new playground...

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Categories: double standards, abuse, addiction, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs