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Best Proponents Poems

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Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning...

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Categories: proponents, environment, natural disasters, pollution,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Help Me Save One At a Time
Help me save the children from rage and hopelessness,
Bring your optimistic lanterns, and your jubilant joy sticks.

Meet me in a half hour in the gazebo...

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Categories: proponents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dogma Or Mystery, Part Two
It's ironic that 'dogma' simply once meant belief: something we hope is true but aren't certain of, as opposed to a fact. Now dogma means...

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Categories: proponents, allusion, analogy, angst, appreciation,
Form: Prose
Just a Few Questions, Lord
Lord, why is it that when we see articles about aborting your babies,
we move on to something else ... and even sometimes get angry? 
Why...

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Categories: proponents, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tanks
Tanks

"Da Tanks, da Tanks."
The President is not Chairman Mao.  
Come on now!
Gads, what an ungrateful nation!

Perhaps haughty Don Lemon or
that court jester, Jim Acosta,
Two snobby...

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Categories: proponents, america, encouraging, independence day,
Form: Rhyme



Prejudice
It clouds the vision of its proponents
Causing them to see things that are not.
It mixes their minds into components
To which rational people give no thought.

It...

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Categories: proponents, discrimination, prejudice, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Faith, Rationality and Islam: a Crisis
The world shared some turmoil; what went wrong?
that was the question, deplored the argument;
It’s all about Pope Benedict’s address
given to his old university at Regensburg
in...

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Categories: proponents, faith, history, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Political Insanity
Convictions are won, when a candidate sums
up the ills that need fixing.  Since we're hoping and thinking
of another Abe Lincoln…., but instead we are...

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Categories: proponents, political, power, race,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dreaded Voting Booth
I must mark my ballot....unable to choose!
So into the booth.....either choice...and we LOSE !!

They spew out the dirt...as those candidates scramble
While issues they skirt...my vote...

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Categories: proponents, political
Form: Rhyme
Dark Day
The day had dawned with promises of times good
When the little child was begging for food
Hadn’t seen a morsel in days, still didn’t have it...

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Categories: proponents, angst, confusion, deathday, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Strong Belief of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson
Johnson believed that
war’s proponents use falsehood
to garner support . . .
this wise man died the same day
the atomic bomb got dropped


April 5, 2022
For Sotto Poet's...

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Categories: proponents, war,
Form: Tanka
The Decline of America
You see it everywhere
The unmistakable signs

That the decline of America 
Is in full swing

As the world leaders turn away
From dealing with the US 

And we...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proponents, america, analogy, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Eight Men Who Are Doing Quite Well
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to...

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Categories: proponents, money,
Form: Prose
M-Theory Musings
What theory unifies forces, weak, strong,
With gravity— also, to which belong
All the string theories of why and because?
To answer these queries, M-theory does.

Proponents aver it...

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Categories: proponents, creation, deep, muse, sky,
Form: Rhyme
The Pitched Ball
the pitched ball
of its many proponents we have signed almost all
but nary a slugger
imbalance has struck, it's likely too late, so bugger....

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Categories: proponents, betrayal,
Form: Clerihew

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