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Best Racketeering Poems

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Premium Member A Racketeering Crowd
June night, two points shine

claws skitter down waving tail

ratcheting sounds of possums.'...

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Categories: racketeering, animal, june,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Big Guns
"The Big Guns"



A woman goes into war
with the matrimony of 
Life and Death 
a wound left empty
a gash pushing up 
daisies where bleeding
seeds don’t bloom...

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Categories: racketeering, adventure, fun, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healing
1. Fields of much promise, but no grass and no soil
the world not so round getting flat and shapeless
necks stretched for faces to look up...

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Categories: racketeering, death, grief, hope, horror,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Mafia and Me
the sheer notion of extorted kindness 
buried beneath a sorrowful note 

of racketeering compassion 
above a silent whisper throughout 

the queerness of being wise beyond...

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Categories: racketeering, adventure,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Letter To Home
When I look around... I See that It's abound
 Whatever it Is... It wants Peace 
 Peace of mind... An everlastingly Bind
 No racketeering... It...

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Categories: racketeering, adventure, depression, devotion, lonely,
Form: Limerick



Wood Chew Believe Aye Took Stock
Wood chew believe aye took stock...?

Upon a whim, an endeavor
arose to communicate
cumulative key whatchamacallit,
yea...nuggets o' wisdom, asper
about yours truly no reason, nor

rhyme unwinding, tooling sputtering
most...

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Categories: racketeering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Pig In Blue
PIG IN BLUE
I knew a pig in blue
Who liked to tell us what to do
Parading the place, policing the place
And he did bad things few...

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Categories: racketeering, betrayal, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Narrative
Impunity
You walk around,
felling like you're above the law
Shielded by family immunity

Get disorderly when you paint the town,
brawling, hitting people in the jaw
Yet you're called a...

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Categories: racketeering, corruption, money, power, pride,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Play, Poverty's Play
And if poverty whips, 
largely, torments
In her barefaced snort of 
withering grievance.
I shall be the one, 
mannered by Earth's dog-
wetness, 
To garner my broken 
possession,...

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Categories: racketeering, angst
Form: ABC
Doomed Dolt, Numbed Nerd, Trampled Trumpery:2
During election and after, buzzwords loud and clear, brags loud and clear,
the motherer lumps all milestone feats into his merits sphere,
as if to the national...

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Categories: racketeering, corruption, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Madmen
Who are the masters of illusion?
Deep Staters, lobbyists, think tanks
In collusion.
Brought to you by big business ads
and the news, and the Father of lies.
The ones...

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Categories: racketeering, chocolate,
Form: Rhyme
Jack Carter
There are no heroes
in my story,
only villains.
My brother died, you know?
In a burned-out smoking
car wreck, reeking of alcohol and petrol.
Funny that, as he didn’t drink…or...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racketeering, allegory, death, me,
Form: Blank verse
Combining My Poems
During Each Day

Day By Day has become very important to me.
And opened up my eyes so I can start to see;
Right direction;
Proper connection;
How and way...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racketeering, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The massive convoy of threats
Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction 
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break 
hard causing us to panic my spouse and...

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Categories: racketeering, anxiety, depression, discrimination, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dead End Street
Written: November 08, 2023, For John Lawless Contest

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Quote by Zig Ziglar
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racketeering, analogy, angst, bereavement, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things