Best Extort Poems

They will take advantage of your calmness,
They will destroy you till you become helpless,
They act like they care, which is  rare,
They walk away from you, yet return to extort from you,
They never help in your assignment, but are ever ready for assessment, 
They make...

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"The Embrace"
 In the apathy of a
corporate world 
Commercial here,
commercial there 
I live within air
quotes 
Pretending I live at
all
To buy, to extort,
to be the product
I am who they say I
am   

All persons, so
impersonal just
thriving outside of
nature 
Being the drones of
love and war 
Working...

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STICKS AND STONES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Every epoch has its own bone chilling word
Causing great trepidation when ever its heard
If you wanted to destroy a group or anyone
This choice word would get the damage done
A thousand years ago it was heretic or heresy
Accuse  if you had...

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(fact)
 Miserables witches. 
I would think from all the things you try to steal from me and extort from me and my son, you think that it was gonna make you happy. 
But to bad it only became a burden load in your life with...

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It's another Saturday night
ending this week
as started
alone again.

I came here
almost two years ago
to my retirement hermitage
but oddly,
and often uncomfortably,
shared with my hurt kids,
mental and physical illness
adopted and then adapted;
an asylum for the perpetually incontinent.

Cars pass by.
Sometimes a loud motorcycle
or two or three or four
or even...

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armies of demented chaos
an abhorrent demonstration
of abbreviations and loss
crying out for retribution
          precisely poised to detonate
          the explosive that is shame
      ...

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She thought he would rage, clean blow his stack,
but he just nodded with a sad look,
said,”After what I saw, I can’t go back,
there are many things the was has took,
things you can’t even read of in books.
I do love you, but maybe we are done
if...

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Your life is the full world, the stars, sun, and moon.
On your own, you can fight the tough times real soon.
Unsteady moves can't let you up the ladder; never tone down.
Rarely will we meet; we set the lousy goal to impugn.

Tacked and seated, man has...

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As they leave,
They leave for us 
Calabash full of sorrow and agony
They leave for men a plate of frustration
And desperation.

As they leave
They leave for women nothing
But cups of tears and fears

As they leave
They leave for old ones a basket
Full of fruits of ultimate death and...

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It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold  
civil rights riots plagued my little brown mind sirens and fog horns single file lines time...

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Fist of crumpled bills, reading through the flavors etched in chalk;
While couples hand in hand, lean on one another and sweet talk.
She orders just for one; Chocolate seems to help when she’s depressed,
The buzzing ice cream lights illuminate the face of loneliness.

Chaotic cafeteria, he’s harassed...

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Inside each of us there are shades of ChAoS…at the very least intermittent negativity
Hypocritical thinking defines so many people
As they bask in their appearance of virtue.
Let us listen to the preacher because only a few can see the utter dissimulation within.
It is a compelling story...

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Escapees: Accommodating Adversities

                    The subjective state of those who are well in
              ...

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LISTEN TO THE CRIES OF THE CHILDREN;
LISTEN TO THE PLEAS OF THE MOST WRETCHED;
HEAR THE DISTRESS OF THE REJECTED.
WATCH THEM WEEP!
AND SEE THEM DIE……

I  WATCH AND PRAY
HEAR AND WEEP FOR THEM…
WEEP..WEEP.. AND WEEP…
THESE ARE FELLOW BEINGS
 WHO ARE IN THE FOLDS OF THE WORST!

HERE...

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London has built another special hospital
made for all Nigerian Presidents and Nobles,
and future Aristocrats who will fight corruption;
Since we die not in this country anymore we rather
stay behind to rule as ancestors of tomorrow
waiting to extort the treasured gin of the masses. 
You preacher of...

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