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Best Inefficiency Poems

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Premium Member My Grandma Deemma
MY GRANDMA DEEMMA

    My Grandma, whom I called Deemma
    bathed me in showers of limitless love and blessings.
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Categories: inefficiency, 10th grade, appreciation, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse



Keep Your Laws Off My Body
You march calling for taxes on
things that you think we should not eat,
tax the soda, tax the chips,
and above all tax the meat!
We point out...

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Categories: inefficiency, abortion, freedom, health, how
Form: Rhyme
The Voice of the Poor
In a utilitarian, profit-maximizing economy
Where supply only meets demand
And demand runs only for those
Willing and able; where the margin
Between total revenue

And total cost must be...

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Categories: inefficiency, money, poverty, society, voice,
Form: Free verse
Productivity
The machine is king
Making money is god
Selfishness is the religion

The underdog is the new third estate
The backbone of society
Is the modern slave
As he gets only...

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Categories: inefficiency, business,
Form: Rhyme
Ultratechnologycal God
Honoring the body
lets adore an ultratechnologycal god
a cold, swift and complex one
whom every morning
we will serve humble
glittering its “on” button
a  god  to whom...

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Categories: inefficiency, philosophygod, god,
Form: Didactic



The Two Faces of China
China, the rising giant;
China, the ruthless tyrant.
China, proud host of the Olympic Games,
China, notorious records of shame.
China, Olympic torch burning bright;
China, missing flame of human...

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Categories: inefficiency, political
Form: I do not know?
Escape To Beauty
I
Excellence in service, equalities
In society: access to every utility
Makes men and me dependent
Until depending on undependables
Makes us meek, mad or uncivilized
But for those accidental attractions

II
Like...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inefficiency, change, city, dark, gospel,
Form: Alliteration
Introspective Agony
Introspective Agony



     Shattering all the imagery, my mirrored visions lost inside
          ...

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Categories: inefficiency, dark, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Tandie No Longer Smiles
Tandie no longer smiles, tandie no longer smiles, The deceptive reflection of the mirror only displays  Effusive images of their smiles and laughter.
 their...

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Categories: inefficiency, depression, hope, world,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Perfect Tomorrow, Recycled
Will one day be against the law
To grow your body five feet tall,
To have a paunch/To eat too much:
And those too different [or who Pray]
Will...

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Categories: inefficiency, satire
Form: Verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Filling Me With Good Things
September 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 1

Key Verse– Luke 1:53 He (God) hath filled the hungry with good things… 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR...

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Categories: inefficiency, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Elected Rejected
Discrediting plausibility 
by shredding their humility 
to a place of vulnerability 
devoured by inabilities 
cowardice incompetence 
showered into consciousness 
empowered causing confidence 
validation found in...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inefficiency, philosophy, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Raining Grace
Week One of two with zero running water
Faucets are dry because of a labor strike
Corrupt politicians and unions in S. Africa
Frustrate! But Our Lord is...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inefficiency, africa, allusion, water, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Understanding Me
September 19 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 26-28

Key Verse – Matthew 26:10 When Jesus understood [it], he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman?...

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Categories: inefficiency, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lousy Postal Service
(This is a fictional poem)

Last week I received a letter that said I won a million dollar sweepstake.
I got so mad that I started to...

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Categories: inefficiency, angst, anniversary, loss, me,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs