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Best Profligacy Poems

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Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion...

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Categories: profligacy, celebration, freedom,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two


I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall...

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Categories: profligacy, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Deference
Profligacy a primary constituency of the damned
Given this then what is the propensity of the lamb?
Climb out of the wool and drop it over another's...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profligacy, faith, people, uplifting, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Aliens
Into space, a rammed ship the passing Star spewed.
Feverish, life into its bowels forever doomed.
Survival hopes by a tumefying Sun aerified.
The void, blindly the last...

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Categories: profligacy, naturelife, planet,
Form: Free verse
Prayer For the Sacred Gaia
Prayer for the Sacred Gaia

Lord God,

As we suffer in this famine of lack, we come humbly before you, confessing as the tax
collector once confessed, begging...

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Categories: profligacy, faithfaith, miracle, thank you,
Form: Free verse



Children of the Night
In paradox with the living world,
Day breaks at dusk,
Reminiscences of the preceding night,
Lost to substance abuse induced amnesia,
Breakfast is served,
Flunitrazepam, ethanol and cannabis,
A balanced diet...

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Categories: profligacy, city, culture, life, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
You Are Out of My Life
You have the most capricious personality.
You are a woman who is unpredictable and flighty.
When it comes to resources, you display profligacy.
There seems to be contempt...

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Categories: profligacy, sad
Form: Rhyme
Special Interest
SPECIAL INTEREST 

With the thought processes of the masses overwhelmed 
By the heavy burden
Of no influence on policy  
And with little scope for advancement
Up...

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Categories: profligacy, political,
Form: Free verse
The Silence
And as she gazed down upon the writhing creatures below, the very thought she had so
strongly opposed, for a split second, was her own.

"Would it...

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Categories: profligacy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Prayer
meditation to the one who comes to us in the periods of deception
who removes the baselessness in us and drags the profligacy
who pervades the whole...

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Categories: profligacy, prayer,
Form: I do not know?
If I Were You
My pen cascades it's ink here and now,
Leaving stains on my pad, silently i assign my words,
Carefully in a filthy aura, they might be candied...

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Categories: profligacy, africa, corruption, courage, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Passionate Poverty
Poverty seems like a repellent stuck on the poor
Whose only fault lies in owning no property or asset to parade
Among wealth admirers and worshippers to...

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Categories: profligacy, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sycophancy
Sycophancy they celebrate
Insolvency they worship
Profligacy they cherish
Grandiosity they love.

Impudence remains a force 
To reckon with 
Indolence rewarded 
Amidst pomp and pageantry
Intolerance to dissent
Views became the...

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Categories: profligacy, education, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
Lofty Afterlife
Lo! Death resides atop that lofty hill  
Expanse of Donn, the ruling god of death.
With eponymic marble monoliths-
Desideratum prodigality.
Profligacy! A lifeless lavishness
Which doesn’t make...

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Categories: profligacy, death
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Figurative Fingertips
FIGURATIVE FINGERTIPS

a talent
to dabble
  with
  profligacy
in different styles

brilliant&
fluent
subtle&
muted palette
phase
of the
immediate
  liberated
in a
 suggestive
 genre

an attractive
template
 flitting between
subjects
never alighting
with a
tendency to
 marginalise
artistic
   encounters
&
to manipulate
scenery
  of substance


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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Categories: profligacy, poetry,
Form: Other

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