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Best Ivory Tower Poems

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Ivory Tower
Existing, so removed, in your ivory tower
From high in your loft you wield your power

You weave your emotions like Rupunzel’s hair
dangling enticingly waiting to snare

Keeping...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ivory tower, psychological, relationship, , cute,
Form: Couplet



Unseen Rainbow
I've never ever seen her face, 
but in my mind, she's the color of love
Black
strong like dark coffee
She wakes you up early in the morning,
gives...

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Categories: ivory tower, allusion, beauty, love, rainbow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Impeach
Merry Impeachness

Justice delayed however symbolic
the orangutan finally won his award
for corruption and dereliction of duties
the constitution used to apply to all

IMPEACH
the orange leach
Lucifer has more...

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Categories: ivory tower, america, child abuse, evil,
Form: Quatrain
You Are Perfection
I bestow upon you
my adoration and love,
for I have beheld your beauty,
and am in awe of you.
Your eyes shine
as the stars of heaven,
your lips are...

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Categories: ivory tower, beautiful, beauty, body, desire,
Form: Free verse
Humility In America
It's said 100 million Americans watched the Superbowl, which like a religious event is held on Sunday. I wonder if 100 million Americans have ever...

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Categories: ivory tower, appreciation, football, god, humanity,
Form: Prose



You Can Call Me Death
I am called by many names
Surely you have heard my claim to fame

Crank, ice, crystal and meth
But you can just call me death

For I will...

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Categories: ivory tower, abuse, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Have the Power of X-Ray Vision
I’m cursed since I have a specialty that I can see, 
X-ray vision is my power.
People often say one thing while doing another,
Preaching from their...

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Categories: ivory tower, humanity, humor, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Imprisoned and the Want For Freedom
Imprisoned and The Want For Freedom


We Retreat and try so hard to be discreet

Denied Intelligence, we're considered inadequate 

and mistreated with violence

The King of our...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ivory tower, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
A Redundancy of Negativity
I've grown quite weary of negative poems full of sarcasms
It's true we're separated on many issues by deep chasms
We see things differently; shades of gray,...

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Categories: ivory tower, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trail of Tears
The Trail Of Tears.
.
The snow fell when the long knifes came
Savages who robbed the sacred homelands 
And buffalo slaughtered bloody plains
Men woman and children the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ivory tower, angst, anxiety, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Castles In the Air
I hear the rustling of the trees
Echoes of knights riding on the breeze
Sent from the castle in the clouds
Trying to calm the baying crowds.
In that...

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Categories: ivory tower, fantasy, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ivory
"An ivory tower can be a fine place to live 
as long as you don't lock yourself in, and others out."
    ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ivory tower, beautiful, child,
Form: Rhyme
Death Valley of Dissent
The day Democracy died,
I was a little lad, yea, knee high

Papa turned on the telly
to watch the White House news
Curious to hear if the 
whether...

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Categories: ivory tower, dark, freedom, political, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lucid Lap Dance
Tenacious ichor tells entire construction
     Divulges puerile battles during idle procedure
     Relic compiling spotlight show seduction 
...

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Categories: ivory tower, art, beauty, bridal shower,
Form: Rhyme
Lying La Times
In California where the dream is of sunshine, and ocean beaches
There are those who drape themselves in the freedom of the presses
However they use that...

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Categories: ivory tower, america,
Form: Free verse

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