Best Peel The Onion Poems

When the president said ‘misunderestimated’
Everybody wondered, ‘was he ever educated’
But I forgive him that, for the thing that makes me ‘EEK!’
Is the mad proliferation of Corporation Speak…

For thirteen years a desk paid my rent
As I gave a hundred and ten percent
While progress chasing, the big...

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So which is the more valuable,
Our good friends or our lovers?
And just where does the difference lie,
In truth or under covers?

When waves of darkness swamp your boat
And you are feeling lonely,
Is clarity or warmth preferred
Or do you crave life only?

When tears fall in torrential burst
And...

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…For a more perfect union,
…We need to peel the onion,
 
…So we can fully fathom,
…The cesspool we have become,
 
…District reps are bought and sold,
…By robbers brazen and bold,
 
…They hide behind their loop holes,
…Buying votes to meet their goals,
 
…And this makes it possible,
…For...

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So reader
Amaze me
With your interpretations of my soul
Those bleak enough to peel the onion dry
And gawk astonished at the
French-fried layers tasty and rubbed
With mesquite anger and lament
What worth do I carry
For your own contemplations
Pressed against my tapestry
Do you see as I
Do I see at all
Does...

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Hello empty, futile nothingness
Our paths meet once again.
Your black tunnel eyes bore into mine
In you I see slate sky pouring rain.

Forever running from this
In unforgiving nothingness again.
And good people’s eyes wash over me
They never stop to take me in.

I carry on, there’s nothing else
In unforgiving...

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Father and son never saw eye to eye, too much jealousy on the patriarch side 
He constantly put his son down for everything he did, competing incessantly
One day the son had enough and walked away, there was nothing else to do 
Father and son reunion...

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If you are mourning the loss of someone or something, take the time and space you need. It's your journey. Don't let anyone try to push you into something you're not ready for, whether it be feelings or actions. 

Whatever you're going through, and whether...

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