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Best Misappropriation Poems

Below are the all-time best Misappropriation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of misappropriation poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Unchangeable
The situation in my country is terrifying
I wish I can do something gratifying,
Selfishness and corruption by leaders are annoying,
No job,no food ,no water,in a land...

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Categories: misappropriation, life, people,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Perambulating In Jail
Perambulating in Jail

‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
No subversive elements needed no lateral thinking and
no thinking per se is required once...

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Categories: misappropriation, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Race-Ism
Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are...

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Categories: misappropriation, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beloved Green Commons
What purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence...

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Categories: misappropriation, anger, creation, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is...

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Categories: misappropriation, age, earth, family, health,
Form: Political Verse



Oh Arise
Oh Arise! 
the city with wonderful natural resources
country where all are loyals 
Country where peace and unity are our watchwords 
leaders are serving in good...

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Categories: misappropriation, africa, analogy, birth, black
Form: Free verse
White House
White House



The man from the window peeped in the morning
Dreamed to send harm other fellow being
He snarled he is superior to all living
Because he showed...

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Categories: misappropriation, absence, africa, america,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Heteronormativity In Jail
Heteronormativity in Jail

‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
             ...

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Categories: misappropriation, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Out of the Portrait
I wish to wake up and see a new world,
I wish to wake up and see a new system, 
A world free from ills and...

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Categories: misappropriation, change,
Form: Free verse
Mania
The cup
The mauve coloured love
Filled with tea or coffee
Impish and flirty
Richly ripply
Indulgence in anarchy
Fascinatingly
A festival of crimson glee
Agelessly

A cup of happy time
Smile seated on sweet...

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Categories: misappropriation, emotions, image, inspiration, joy,
Form: Free verse
Does It Really Matter That It Doesn'T
My love
so you have a history
has the past then written it indelibly
all things you think you should be
you respond to all those things
conglomerate
with all the...

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Categories: misappropriation, today,
Form: Free verse
Open the Flood Gates
You open the flood gates if you say
You come from the bush and are in power,
So beside your regular pay
Some misappropriation won't matter.

Billions may pass...

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© Abel Jae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misappropriation, allusion, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woman In Chains
she carries the child on tired hips rested on chains ‘round her waist

wasted on freedom designed to serve a white man’s lustful desire

branded inferior as...

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Categories: misappropriation, anger,
Form: Free verse
Misfiring With Love
Death appeared in our relationship
The misappropriation of love was the cause

Someone I loved was drenched in solitude
We never really knew that both of us
Shoved each...

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Categories: misappropriation, love, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The Eighties
Inches to dimes running out of time. Money, space, and a broken place are the only times I remember her face. Tonight I need your...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misappropriation, dance, growing up, memory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things