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Elites Who Are Not Elite
We see them sitting in towers
carved from ‘learned’ ivory,
insulated by their tenure
from the world of reality,
poisoning their students minds,
putting bad ideas in their heads,
the kind...

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Categories: elites, corruption, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme



Categories: elites, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Mixed Messages
Mixed Messages

One last ticket. 
One last seat on the train. 
Running fast, 
to make it, before there is 
no chance to escape, 
the fate of...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elites, abortion, abuse, addiction, dedication,
Form: Free verse
A Thrill Seeker - Part 1
A THRILL SEEKER (PART 1)

He is a sick man with no life that is running around in a world that cannot be lived.
All but not...

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Categories: elites,
Form: Epic
----Occupy: the Soup -------
Infuriated by greed
so we Occupy city streets
tired of being lied to 
divided by tyranny 
of the Elites
sickened by offshore banks 
ran by gangs 
known as...

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Categories: elites, peace, people, political, social,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stick Together People
stick together      people
the elites 
are gleaning power
from the seeds of misery garden

they're dividers of the masses
nothing more-nothing less

they smother smiles...

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Categories: elites, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't Dare Ask
We had no hand in this rape of nature
Yet we will bear its full weight and measure
Can climate be sentenced to certain doom
Is there time...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elites, change, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet
Twenty-Five
I dreamed a lot when I was young,
my mind still wanders to this day,
so much I wanted to achieve,
so much that I yearned to stay.

Was...

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Categories: elites, business, dream, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elites, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Alive Not Dead
My people I have seen seas of pains
With series of painted assaults and
Hatred from elites of illiteracy
My people no not again my people
For it is...

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Categories: elites, abuse, africa, anger, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
Writers Delight
Legends were created here within script 
edges required in content to carefully encrypt
Breaking harmonic rules outside the norm 
Retaking realities in rhythmical uniform 
Baptized them...

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Categories: elites, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Writing Mediocre Poems
The most gifted poets who ever wrote
Occasionally penned gibberish and tripe
Even Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats
Sometimes were at a loss for words
In exchange for a royal...

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Categories: elites, poems, poets, sorry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Canadian Geese Haiku
anniversary, bird, change, courage, immigration, mystery, sky,
 'Geese' Hiaku: 'Ode to the Canadian Goose'!

Canada’s Geese © HAIKU

All Northern Geese ‘crop’	
Seasonal tour ‘reruns’ twice!
Returning again!


Flag-poled Staff...

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Categories: elites, bird, change, courage, immigration,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
evolves from enthymematic roots
toward mutually empathic,
darkly transparent
nondual dark energy

Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
pregnant...

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Categories: elites, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schizophrenia
,
 … Schizophrenia.. of Ego mania, wipe the slate
the human logic with no plate

its late, its late… the Master plan wipes the slate..
the logics of...

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Categories: elites, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs