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Best Forthrightness Poems

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Premium Member Obama Rhapsody - Potd
His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's...

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Categories: forthrightness, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Tattered Photo's Beauty
Sepia  photo hides  a face
With  creased lines  that could not retrace;
The details of  Grandma’s allure
As  tints cover those outlines...

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Categories: forthrightness, beauty, image, old,
Form: Couplet
He
Men cannot be trusted
emotionless and hardened,
They tend to be aggressive
Then thoughtlessly are pardoned.

Promiscuously driven 
With ego swelling large, 
They're loud, endowed and over proud
And in...

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Categories: forthrightness, for her, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Suffering and Death of Jesus
Searching vainly, the dark enthralled with death, 
Moral fervor and forthrightness deep breath.
In utter silence, stealth into its depths 
Drawing breath, soon all His knowledge...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forthrightness, abuse, angst, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Free Cee and They Did Not Listen To Jefferson Airplane At First Either
OH HONEY, LOOK AT THE PRETTY PINK HOUSE ON THE ****ING CORNER

Is it all about two promises and two hearts set upon the same goal,
or...

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Categories: forthrightness, angst, , cute,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Pride and Wonder
I told the nun in charge
of Religious Education
If asked about sexual orientation
I will say
I'm gay.

I want to teach
deep listening learning
not how not to lie.

She wonders...

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Categories: forthrightness, anti bullying, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
Consonant Like a Vow El
Consonant Like A Vow (el)

Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering 
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua 
(just recently) late John McCain, and his...

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Categories: forthrightness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Pugilist and a Whistleblower
A pugilist and a whistle-blower  

I never thought much of boxing 
but I liked Muhammad Ali`s forthrightness 
steadfast stood against the storm of
hatred and...

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Categories: forthrightness, butterfly, career, change, clothes,
Form: Blank verse
Well There Goes the Neighborhood
WELL THERE BLOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Is it all about two promises and two hearts set upon the same goal?
Or is two about two beings  becoming...

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Categories: forthrightness, recovery from...old, old, ,
Form: Quintain (English)
Well There Goes the Neighborhood
WELL THERE BLOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Is it all about two promises and two hearts set upon the same goal?
Or is two about two beings  becoming...

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Categories: forthrightness, recovery from...old, old, ,
Form: Quintain (English)
Well There Goes the Nighborhood
WELL THERE BLOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Is it all about two promises and two hearts set upon the same goal?
Or is two about two beings  becoming...

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Categories: forthrightness, angst, old, old, ,
Form: Quatrain
Birth of Life
The Birth of life

I was born by a woman, this because I`m human
and not a horse, my mother had many faults as a housewife
but she...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forthrightness, blessing, blue,
Form: Blank verse
Looking For Purple
How does one interpret,
Everyday moments

We all want clarity and forthrightness,
So why the discombobulated torment

Of words that distort the facts,
Untruthful twisted personal attacks

The world is a...

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Categories: forthrightness, political,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Symbiosis
Two orbiting stars round a center of mass
that’s common to both in the scheme
is symbiotic in relationship class
or so goes the titular theme

for many descriptions...

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Categories: forthrightness, earth, nature, space, stars,
Form: Verse
Childhood's Dream
At every turn in time, I wish to live the best dream 
The best wish everyone could have
That caress the precious grace per luck 
Which...

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Categories: forthrightness, age, art, dream, future,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things