Best Outlawed Poems
If I Ruled the World
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If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular, and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing to go would be nuclear arms they would all ......
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Categories:
outlawed, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form:
Narrative
Century-Twenty Two
...A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the power
And the gl......
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Categories:
outlawed, social, society,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Soup 2022
...Poetry soup
Offering gifts of
Eloquence and rhetoric
This emancipation of candour
Revitalized in common goals when
Yielding seeds of open-mindfulness
Specifications spontaneously unshackl......
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Categories:
outlawed, writing,
Form:
Name
Martian Christmas 2110
...I would have loved Santa to have visited us here
In his coat of red and his eight brown reindeer
Sadly there is no atmosphere left on earth
So we moved to Mars, it’s the place of my bi......
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Categories:
outlawed, christmas, fantasy, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Steps Aside
...STEPS ASIDE
They’ve banned the “step counters”
Outlawed the treadmill and stationary bike
Banned jogging (aka fast walking for the elderly)
Sports will be limited to “non-aerobic” activities
T......
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Categories:
outlawed, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
One Hope
...I guess I'm obsessed
With keeping my breath
I've small use for obtuse youth
And their smug, shrugging abuse
Blinding meeker minds
By the blither of twitter
Where shameless selfishness
Is seen ......
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Categories:
outlawed, conflict, society,
Form:
Rhyme
"freckles Brown". the Legend, the Bull Rider
...Born in 1921, somewhere in Wyoming, born to ride wild stock
Started at sixteen, hung up his spurs at 53
Thirty Seven years of riding broncs and bulls
Made his home aboard outlawed livestock
Ridi......
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Categories:
outlawed, dedicationnight, night,
Form:
Reclamation
...I was taken from this life
in the black night, blindfolded
to be clubbed to death
so that I
might be born again
in spirit song, dance and name
given by my great ancestor
who, ten thou......
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Categories:
outlawed, history, native american, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Beauty Is More Than Meets the Eye
...There are beautiful creatures to grace plains.
There are beautiful flowers for bouquets.
There are beautiful people …
natural and otherwise.
Whether people, creatures or flowers,
......
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Categories:
outlawed, animal, beauty, flower, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
If I Could Change the World
...Sometimes I don't switch on TV, the radio stays dumb
and finishing a newspaper can leave me feeling numb.
What is it with this world of ours, where did it all go wrong?
How could the higher-ups el......
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Categories:
outlawed, environment, humor, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Desperado
...Desperado..
Searching for my fate
Lost and traveling
Trying to redeem my reckless ways
I'm kicking up the dust
On this dusty ol' back road
Searching, seeking
To redeem my outlawed soul
At a lonely ......
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Categories:
outlawed, change, growing up, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Ringo's Last Ride
...It’s way back in the eighties, of the eighteenth century,
the bad man Johnny Ringo, did stalk Arizona free,
from Lukeville to Sonoro, he dealt his darkest hand,
and sought to take the silver, fr......
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Categories:
outlawed, dark, evil, history,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Singing Revolution
...A man takes a bath in his tired apartment
Old enough to remember the deportations that never happened
Hums a careless tune - a forbidden tune. He gasps
Did the neighbours hear him? Will they repo......
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Categories:
outlawed, inspirational, political,
Form:
Free verse
Me
...Me, a singularity, vast, color fast, has a good forecast and will flabbergasted. Me, resilient at times brilliant and on the same token often broken. Me, can be unforgiving, dangerously living but on......
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Categories:
outlawed, art, beautiful, creation, deep,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dowry Bane
...bedecked golden bride
golden goose for gruntled groom
golden noose or life
~25 Jun 2016~
A commentary on the odious practice of demanding dowry from the bride's side in an a......
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Categories:
outlawed, abuse, culture,
Form:
Senryu