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Best Exploitation Poems

Below are the all-time best Exploitation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of exploitation poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exploitation, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun



Chains of Colonialism
Chains of Colonialism        

With guns they came
With whips and chains
Chains to capture the Dark Continent
Chains snaking across Africa
Africa...

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Categories: exploitation, africa, discrimination, people, racism,
Form: Blitz
Last Stages of Love
You're in the last stages
of lost wages,
of empty pages,
of spent rages,

You're in the termination 
of inspiration
of imitation,
of expiration,

You're in the culmination
of emulation,
of exploitation,
of domination

of me....

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Categories: exploitation, lost love, people,
Form: Rhyme
A Better World
A vision of humanity, a world without brutality, a beautiful fantasy, not a reality.
A vision of a world where the truth isn’t ignored and everyone...

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exploitation, care, conflict, death, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Big Problem
Once there was a famous king,
More famous than Ozymandias.
His name was King Wolf. 
Sultan was his nickname.
He called himself a benevolent despot;
And his style of...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exploitation, irony, satire, , ozymandias,
Form: Narrative



Love, Peace, and Harmony
Discrepancy is an economic thing.  Have you ever known this to be anything else?
Money is the great separator of togetherness.  Man rob, steal,...

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Categories: exploitation, life, political, slam, mental
Form: Free verse
No Free Lunch
A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exploitation, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Decency a Voice
In the dreary tune of a city's groan,
when streets escape the raging claws
of  haggard breaths, a line of stars blink
trading some warmth with human...

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Categories: exploitation, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: exploitation, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Ask Me To Apologize
Don't ask me to apologize for being the monster inside
I refuse to set any agony i have aside
Don't ask me to torch out the fuse...

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Categories: exploitation, abuse, bullying, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rant
This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise...

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Categories: exploitation, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Together We Are Strong
How time has flown, vaporized, thrust us to the twilight of our life
Looking back we’ve pursued divergent paths and viewpoints
Years of toiling accrued debilitating arthritis...

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Categories: exploitation, age, brother, caregiving, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Time Keeper
Seconds,
My life seems to work anti-clockwise
With every tick I seem to get less wise
By the minute counter-clock-wise
As I split-seconds closer to my demise
Look deep in...

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Categories: exploitation, betrayal, break up, confusion,
Form: Free verse
English
We explore –
earn and exist –
with a language 
of old exploitation. 

Like a mulatto,
Indian English 
is a hybrid. 
It’s as our culture –
there’s a unity
in...

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Categories: exploitation, language,
Form: Free verse
Green Or Golden Age
When was that golden age for which you yearn?
A perfect Eden? where we’d yet to learn 
To conquer and to dominate the land
And Mother Nature...

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Categories: exploitation, earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme

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