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Best Middle Class Poems

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Premium Member Lifes Simplicity Maintained
You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...

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Categories: middle class, career, character, cheer up,
Form: Epic



A Love Story
The girl is an ultra-modern scholar, 
Belongs with an upper-middle class family. 
Looking very nice, smart, gets angry suddenly. 
She reads M.A in English at...

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Categories: middle class, culture, deep, emotions, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My African Sister
I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: middle class, familyfamily, class, class, family,
Form: Narrative
Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire




Afraid for your miscreant soul
While the Devils licking tongues of flame at your heel
With oh so dirty thoughts

Afraid for the flesh
As you are...

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Categories: middle class, devotionprayer, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Straight White Boys Only
Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the...

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Categories: middle class, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry



Dr Seuss-Style-Mister Obama Pleasetax the Rich Man
Dr. Seuss-style-Mister Obama Please Tax The Rich Man!


Mister Obama please tax the rich man!
The cost's are up.
The pay is down.
Tax.
TAX!
All over town.
There is tax on...

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Categories: middle class, life, people, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep Voodoo

trickle down economy
pissing away 
the poor
pissing off
the middle class
as less and less
our paychecks
pay the bills
ironic how 
when I was
still in diapers
the rich got taxed
 a...

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Categories: middle class, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Occupy Wall Street
The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters,...

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Categories: middle class, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Limerick
The American Dream
The American Dream is dead indeed
A victim of American Greed
Trickle down they said we’d try
Then proceeded to suck us dry

The One Percent seeking thrills
Living large...

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Categories: middle class, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life With Trump V, Vi, Vii, Viii
Author's Note: Recite the following using the rhythm and melody of "Home, home on the range where the deer and the antelope play." The first...

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Categories: middle class, song,
Form: Limerick
A Lovely Little Daydream
Always having a problem with dairy,
having adverse side effects pretty fairly,
but being deprived of ice cream is just too much,
whereupon walking down frozen desserts aisle...

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Categories: middle class, dream, health, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Bio Poem
I can rhyme on a dime
And I must say that I’m
Pretty good when I put my mind to it.
I can’t cook but a book
Will entice...

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Categories: middle class, me,
Form: Bio
America Is Everyone
America is everyone,
There are people who believe otherwise
But America is not 
Just some middle class white man,
Living a suburban life,
Drinking coffee every morning,
Eating breakfast with...

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© Emily Diaz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: middle class, america, community, culture, deep,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Simple and Pretty
The nose feels always sweet from the steams of the lower order
happiness and contentment fill the pages of their folders
still afford basic needs, though with...

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Categories: middle class, class, community, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I'M a Stranger That's Homeless
I've been a hard worker all my life
          Got married and was loving wife

  ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: middle class, addiction,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things