Best Ordeal Poems

I received a beautiful Christmas gift the other day,
it was so quaint and pretty but ate it anyway,
was a gingerbread house with a gingerbread family,
consumed the whole house while the family looked away,

Then they looked up at me with sorrowful icing eyes,
I felt so bad...

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the marked must go quietly in the night
without a word of farewell
through the trembled dust
down the dark road from which they say
no one returns

the gods who made Africa
strike fear upon the living
comfortless
vituperative
rampaging through our lands:
freedom is a hoax

we abandon ourselves
to the crudely dug dungeon
the pit...

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Anxiously waiting trying  not to clock watch
Baleful noise breaks the silence,
Calmness disappears,
Distraught, sons first school day
Excitement as flying body flings himself at her, at home time


Penned October 1 2017

Contest : Sara Kendrick ....let's do some alphabet


Based on own friends ordeal...

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You fear knowledge,
run from it as you would a gathering storm,
to hide in the dark forest of your life's ordeal.
Seeking nothing,
but self-satisfaction, blaming others for your lot in life.
Hiding from the responsibility of your own actions.
To need someone to appear seeking power,
a power you give...

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to take eight pounds of dog on a plane
a trip in itself let me tell you
should I take its tooth brush I don't think so
but for sure I was glad to have an address
and a vet who cost me up the wazoo 
to have me...

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Why did Donald Trump emerge, 
As a presidential frontrunner?  
Why did people call a businessman, 
To be a political gun, a stunner? 

Politics is in disrepute today, 
Requiring tight legal regulation, 
Because advantage has been taken, 
Financially, by the means of representation. 

UK politics has...

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The sun isn't totally up;
a cowboy looks at a map.

His mind anticipates treasures,
filled with mystical features.

He wants to be very rich,
until he's out of reach.

You see, he has a farm,
which makes little pocket sum.

One time, his cows were on the loose;
he tripped as he ran...

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life has become a dirge,
torn image,
I’ve become alike
silence has engulfed my life
so, entangled in melancholy

decade passed,
as if a century I’ve gone through,
with your memories, 
still waiting for you,

vividly I remember those days,
when you used to kiss my forehead
you used to give me Eidi on every...

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Political ordeal 




Criticising every good move,
Is that what opposition means ?
Putting party above country
politics left no more than a dirty game.

Feeling joy of having an honest PM
positivity is apparent in the air,
His dreams of taking us to heights
which no citizen has any doubts about.

Yet for...

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Dear diary,
My vented heart speaks to you today,
Help me forget the terrible bygones;
The misfortunes of a young girl,
The pain that she felt
In the coercion of another’s body’s act,
Her screams that were wasted
In crying out for help,
The violent hunger that unleashed 
Itself on her naïve innocence.
The...

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(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).

Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps feeling comfortably numb,
which I (personally experiencing futility)

vainly searching for Nirvana) attest
to be more appealing than flounder
(like a Phish out of...

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As I approached the doorway my heart went rat-a-tat-tat,
Just thinking about stepping onto the old welcome mat.
Because recently I ate way too much, and became too fat
Which, unfortunately meant that I was worth looking at.
So I planned on exercising in order to look more flat,
By...

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When tongues arise to condemn racism 
None speaks the ordeal of the African albino being 
Defined by different views of ethnical beliefs 
Discriminated by his brothers for lacking melanin 

He is but subjected to verbal condemnation 
With chants of mockery upon his head 
Discriminated by...

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The court’s dragons are working overtime
which doesn't surprise me, for real.
Last week in the headlines we read old news -
former state policemen achieves third appeal
for killing his wife and two children.
Their murders are a twelve-year ordeal.

Already proven guilty by a jury twice
both long-drawn out states...

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Born in Oklahoma back woods
Three children , each a year apart
Jill, Jim, and Joe were their names
Raised by Mary, bless her heart

Life wasn't easy for Mary
Living in a one room shack
Using an old well for water,
With a rickety outhouse out back!

Last year their papa disappeared
(With...

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