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Best Indebtedness Poems

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Indebtedness of Sons
There have been great men of lofty stature,
champions to grateful populations
with virtues others struggle to capture, 
they constantly surpass expectations  
and are heroes to...

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Categories: indebtedness, life, love, mother, son,
Form: Rhyme Royal



Premium Member The Devil of a Deal
Where will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell 
How much of its our doing
How much...

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Categories: indebtedness, business, corruption, depression, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Debt and the Devil's Dancers
Everybody needed something,
and there was always something in the world that needed somebody,
debt is all about connections to affections,
sustenence to stimulus is only half of...

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Categories: indebtedness, business,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member A Stationary Bicycle
26.

A stationary bicycle
Never travels very far.
Nor sniffs the meadow flowers
Or sets the evening star.

It is far from me to criticize
The direction that you ought...
But it...

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Categories: indebtedness, angst, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Political Tactic
Heavy taxation is not thriftiness,
exempting themselves from indebtedness!
Oh, Congress is comical...
making us hysterical
through economic hardships!...

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Categories: indebtedness, political, social
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I...

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Categories: indebtedness, culture, health, power, ,
Form: Political Verse
A Girl Was Raped In a Bus That Night
A girl was raped in a bus that night 
By six men, all drunk, who had lost their minds	
Ambrosia was the elixir of gods, it...

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Categories: indebtedness, angst, daughter, men, night,
Form: Narrative
Birthday Poem For Mother Leonora
Birthday Poem for Mother Leonora
8 April 2015

For only now I understand
The meaning of endurance
For the gravity that you held so grand
I would this day take...

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Categories: indebtedness, appreciation, birthday, dedication, happy
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everlasting Ties
The wind blows, and gusts prevail…

Emerging from the dust I was found
weeping in the forsaken land of my desolated heart’s remains
‘til you appeared, an angel...

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Categories: indebtedness, love, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Debit Or Credit
Debit 
Liable, obligatory 
Owing, paying, pledging 
Indebtedness, deficit, salary, bonuses
Receiving, banking, depositing 
Affluent, prosperous 
Credit


April 28, 2021...

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Categories: indebtedness, business, money,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member This Quest, Was It But a Sad Rage Against the Storm
This Quest, Was It But A Sad Rage Against The Storm

As I wade through this poisonous wilderness- alone
Raging fury contained well within my breast
Seeing earth's...

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Categories: indebtedness, dark, deep, fate, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Native Demise
Our forever Sky Dancer peace parades his Paradise dance on soaring 
silky clouds kissing a milky blue tender sky, sun on high, breezes on low
all...

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Categories: indebtedness, america, education, endurance, international,
Form: Free verse
By the Wayside Stricken
Who lies now by the wayside stricken,
sick of body,  sick of soul?
His eyes are closed, his ears are deaf
to the somber bells that toll.
...

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Categories: indebtedness, friend, humanity, sympathy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Parents To Repay
A debt comes not only in money terms
Taking and giving debt in other forms 

Indebtedness involves in many ways

Doing the same to the donor who...

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Categories: indebtedness, caregiving, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Debt Service
What makes you think
you can mortgage a heartache

What makes you think
your payment’s unique

What makes you think
your indebtedness special

What makes you think
—you can leverage the pain

(Dreamsleep:...

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Categories: indebtedness, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs