Best Journalistic Poems
America, Why Did You Stray?
...America, why did you stray from the old way.
A constitution put forth, the foundation of our land,
barely recognizable what was originally Jefferson's hand.
Tarnished and smudged by misinterpretat......
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Categories:
journalistic, depression, devotion, education, history,
Form:
Narrative
An Obscenity Trial
...An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "co......
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Categories:
journalistic, poems, poetry, poets, society,
Form:
Verse
Theatrum Mundi
...Theatrum Mundi
Theatrum Mundi, derived from the Latin as: “Theater of the World,” was famously incorporated by William Shakespeare for his well-known metaphorical world-view often referred to unde......
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Categories:
journalistic, education, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
The Journey
...Part 1: Catalyst
I recently read a blog that purported to report news
Of extraordinary import to us all,
That the Catholic Pope, with a new encyclical letter,
Announced to the world his convictio......
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Categories:
journalistic, faith, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Alphabet Soup
...Admirable Almights all I ask appreciatively allow me to attain,
be beyond bourgeois breeding ballads for the brain.
Create colloquialisms that cast competently into chimeras,
directing dramatis......
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Categories:
journalistic, art, confusion, family, imagination,
Form:
Colour Me Black, Colour Me Beautiful
...Africa
My beloved Africa
Africa
The cradle of humanity
Civilization starting in the Nile valley
Africa the cradle of writing
Hieroglyphics dating back from Egypt
Yet Africa brags no literatur......
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Categories:
journalistic, dedication, friendship, inspirational, me,
Form:
Burlesque
War Is a War Crime
...Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with......
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Categories:
journalistic, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Journeys With Father Time
...Hi!
I'm Sister EarthChild
journalist with Youth Radio
speaking with Mother Time,
who recently published her hilarious
"Journeys With Father Time:
Wasted Journals of Mother Time."
First, I wa......
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Categories:
journalistic, gender, health, history, humanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
News
...The news has become quite absurd
Mocking the journalistic word
Often appealing
Never revealing
Just dishing out mountains of turd......
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Categories:
journalistic, funny, social
Form:
Limerick
The Five W's
...Historically,They are known to be
The foundation of journalistic integrity.
Though lately, many might argue
They've been replaced, with opinion's severity.
Who, could cause this metamorphism,
......
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Categories:
journalistic, confusion, integrity,
Form:
Quatrain
Snail Trails and Rat Tails
...My transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
wi......
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Categories:
journalistic, community, health, humanity, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
The Journal Junkie Meets the Destitute Dweller
...*Holly (Vault Dweller)*
Hey bartender,
Who's that girl over there,
The one nursing the whiskey in the corner,
She has that press hat one that makes her look...strangely debonair.
*Bartender*......
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Categories:
journalistic, crush, drink, girl,
Form:
Rhyme
Triggernomics
...
Lot of money being made in death sales,
plenty pints of iron-copper deposits
Body bags coin-wrapped
are rolling out of the blood bank sin-ters
to the holey pocket hospitals
Everybod......
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Categories:
journalistic, death, metaphor, truth, visionary,
Form:
Elegy
On Resilient Health
...I am reading my Resilience Systems Manual,
avidly,
like an underfed developer
hoping to strike gold
while laying healthy habitat foundations.
Today I see Community Resilience mention
Tipping ......
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Categories:
journalistic, environment, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Yowl Part One A
...I’ve seen the minds of my generation bested by their handheld mobile devices,
texting for a dopamine rush, tuning out the reality around them.
I’ve watched them, withdrawn from present company, looki......
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Categories:
journalistic, computer-internet, parody,
Form:
Free verse