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Best Necessary Evil Poems

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Necessary Evil
take this blade 
and cut your wrists
make escape holes for the devil

let him leave you
through the bleeding
make the world then somewhat level

it's a sacrifice 
most...

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Categories: necessary evil, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Necessary Evil
Have you never tasted hunger
Tread the alleys with the stealthy
Cried the tears of someone younger
While you dined among the wealthy
Shuffled through the papers
Through the pages...

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Categories: necessary evil, corruption, evil, feelings, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onslaught
#One should be cautious in starting a war, but 
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#

     #Quote by Hirohito circa...

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Categories: necessary evil, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead
Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead

Under moldy soil, red moon overhead
lay millions of corpses, wars wasted dead
No bands playing, no sweet angels singing
only ghostly echoes,...

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Categories: necessary evil, art, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Sonnet
She's Everything
She’s got an orange and a blue pair of shoes
That I love so much when she wears them
She looks great in her black coloured ear...

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Categories: necessary evil, girlfriend, love, romantic, soulmate,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Victories For Love
The problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral, 
concern.

This primal problem...

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Categories: necessary evil, health, history, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
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: necessary evil, money, poverty, society, voice,
Form: Free verse
War
The reason for this fighting
is that we do not like
The attitude that's ensued 
by the other side
Too big for their britches 
them and all their...

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Categories: necessary evil, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enola Gay
Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under...

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Categories: necessary evil, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
My Wife
MY WIFE

A *****
A witch
Necessary evil begin.
Needed her once,
Now yet  to kill her
  An unfortunate 
sin.

Her womb
A vessel
I  and she needs to fill.
...

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Categories: necessary evil, wifewife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lucifer, the Broken Mould
Alone He stands, forsaken, on the edge of desperation
Apocalyptic tales of hate filled desecration
The unholy one devoid of any love nor hellish glory
Lies revealed within...

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Categories: necessary evil, betrayal, bible, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Video Games
Video Games
My children were reared on video games
Not my choice I know, but I take the blame 
The hours they spent on a computer screen
Sent...

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Categories: necessary evil, family, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Time
Time
  
Time is a measurement point of reference in our lives
It is measured in hours, minutes and seconds
We are in fact a slave to...

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Categories: necessary evil, people, time,
Form: Narrative
I Am Bored With Mowing
Spring is here and I must admit,
since the grass is green and growing,
I don't mind if the whole world knows,
I am bored with mowing.

It's back...

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Categories: necessary evil, depression, on work and
Form: Rhyme
The Poetic World
After the creation of things
They where all created
But in the world of imagination
Many live as creators
Existing in weird


The created creator,
The poet, I've never imagine 
As...

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Categories: necessary evil, age, art, best friend,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things