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Best Humane Poems

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Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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Categories: humane, new year,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: humane, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Gyspy Soul
Restless, roving soul
needing, reaching, grasping
aching, antsy, anxious
impatient since birth
my soul is a gypsy
wandering the earth

I delve the depths
for spiritual solace,
that place of rest-
scouting rough terrain
searching,...

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Categories: humane, faith, feelings, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confluence
“Forget the injuries, never forget kindness” ~ Confucious

 To the faceless names I’ve phased, 
forgive the silent sunsets, frozen in time, 
  and remember...

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Categories: humane, angst,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”

 

What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got...

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Categories: humane, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: humane, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Justice For Cecil the Lion
Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
Shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his home;
It took Cecil forty hours to die, how...

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Categories: humane, anger, animal, beautiful, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Angst On the Big Screen
There you go again, you “Cyber Brat”!
There is “no such website”? What is that?

First you lead me through a wild web maze;
I Google, then succumb...

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Categories: humane, angst, computer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dark Poet -Contest-
A little tale about the real me
twisted all inside as can be
the visions of the end
is all i see
F.T.W. setting my self free

waking up with...

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Categories: humane, imaginationdark, dark, day, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Death
A mystery for us mere human being to unravel;
B elief and logic fight over our world, all in confusion.
C ome stealthily, it does, while as...

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Categories: humane, bereavement, change, death, emotions,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Kissed By Katy
Although two other felines enjoyed their lap time
Atop them the dominating Katy would climb
The lap she didn’t want; she sat right on my face
Katy felt...

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Categories: humane, cat, pets,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Prurient Interests
Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...

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Categories: humane, culture, drug, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Knowing Right From Wrong
It's the pain laced cold reality check
crashing winds hurricane blowing 
the tail end landing with news processed 

Suffering human rights ignored pains
through prides green eyes...

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Categories: humane, angel, beautiful, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecotherapist Conventions
Truth is a feather 
pushed off to the other side.

Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.

OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...

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Categories: humane, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Human Science
Let's start this issue with hard facts 
believe it or not the seed is now planted 
from our Lord's spoken words lets address this world...

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Categories: humane, bereavement, betrayal, conflict, devotion,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things