Best Embezzled Poems
A Goodbye Lie
...Dark chocolate eyes bore into me,
Beseeching, brimming, tunneling for truth.
A single tear trails silently
Cascading o’er lifted cheekbones so
Perfectly angled they’re matchless
Throughout natur......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, abuse, betrayal, character, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Domestic Abuse and Abuse of Power
...After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins str......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Absconding Muse
...My muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse absconded ev......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, funnymetaphor,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Mulatto
...Otto`s life is not
their British
sickular motto
Grue is his banner
left by his
blue-eyed Brit mom
left long by one of
those hated South
African Paki
His guilty pleasures
in Green Street hav......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, addiction, career, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Barren
...Bungalow shrouded by sorrow
Ancillary space time doth borrow
Recycled dreams in dark basement furrow
Residual memories in corroded hope chest burrow
Embezzled ambitions in fallow vault sallow
Na......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, angst
Form:
Acrostic
Corruption
...I too sing corruption
I waited on the bench
was told no work
reason (mkono mtupu)
yes had no long relative
I sat next to the conductor
comes an officer
wringing their hands
red-pinkish 100 ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, betrayal, jobs, leadership, money,
Form:
Narrative
Changed World
...Call it condemnation or appraisal ,
It is far from it ;
I write from the bottom of my heart…
Full of sorrows and pain ,
That the world that I cherish and care for…
Is no longer safe and habitabl......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, emotions, grief,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
City Harvest
...November rains
Monsoon starts wet;
Nature redecorates
~~~~~~~~~
Orchard Road stretch
Decked for Christmas;
Good for business
~~~~~~~~~
So sad this scandal
Funds embezzled;
Ego v......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, change,
Form:
Haiku
That Colorful Drug
...THAT COLORFUL DRUG CONTEST
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes
There may have been some pink or red…but mostly loneliness and black…
My head couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong…go......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, addiction, anxiety, deep, drug,
Form:
Prose
A National Epidemic
...A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC
If you saw those lusty nasty faces, you see it engraved in their hearts,
Even those trusted public officers, no longer bother to weed the vice,
They plant the evil, water it ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, corruption,
Form:
Concrete
Saga of Henry Wiggins - Part I
...That night old Henry rose up off his bench;
Evening's light growing dimmer as the sun set in the west,
Throwing stabs of light on the old village common -
Masked strangers on the pavement mocking ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, conflict, corruption, deep, people,
Form:
Free verse
Confused
...A
Alas! I`m in a
confused state,
As I wonder in
perpetual
restlessness
B
Bind by different
thoughts that are
not mine,
I keep remembering
the good old days
C
Caught in the middle
of f......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, corruption, emotions, life,
Form:
Abecedarian
Absconding Muse: Vagabond Scavenger
...Jilting muse with availing inspiration did wend
Barren reservoir doth futility portend
A bristling quill with no well to descend
No gratuitous frills on vapid contours suspend
Seeking with brokered s......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, on writing and words
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Nigeria
...This is Nigeria where every thief is honest;
Where every politicians are good yet, they are probe.
This is Nigeria where every students are wise.
This is Nigeria where every He-Goats smell not.
T......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, africa, art,
Form:
Ballad
Purple Bouquet
...Purple bouquet in her arms.
She came to an abrupt stop.
Lurking under a shadow of a dove.
Like a mother lion protecting its cubs.
Daddy, this is me.
I’m fulfilled like you told me, I will.
Sh......
Continue reading...
Categories:
embezzled, teacher, thanks, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse