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Best Rationing Poems

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Premium Member - Norway In Virus Quarantine -
A significantly different day
                 No bread or milk
empty for...

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Categories: rationing, crazy, scary, world,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frederic Bio
Take my hand, walk with me.
I'll show you fragments from my life.
Its broken sidewalks,silently paved by broken souls,
their anger pent up from a world war.
I'll...

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Categories: rationing, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Police
Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationing, abortion, abuse, addiction, allah,
Form: Free verse
Be Selfish
A selfish man protects his family
        like a guard,he contemplates the welfare
   of his beloved family...

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Categories: rationing, earth, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World War Ii Years
For what's it's worth, here's my recollection

Of my young years growing up in Canada in the 40s

Right off the bat, you may think the war...

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Categories: rationing, conflict, war, world war
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The San Jose Mine Rescue 2010
Located in the hot Chilean desert of Atacama
Is the San Jose mine that became the focus of drama
The miners reported for work, to start their...

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Categories: rationing, loneliness, men, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Rhyme To Recall Recapture of Romance
Writing relative rhymed rhymes
Rhyming with revival rhythmically rhythm
Is not revue but reviewing my role
To resurrect as requested to revive back romance.
When rhyming my rhymes I...

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Categories: rationing, romanceromance, love, red, romance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Love: Donations Welcomed
"How many people are praying for love?"

There are countless people in this world who have no one that loves them ... NO ONE!

Why is that...

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Categories: rationing, giving, loneliness, lonely, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poppies of Remembrance
Time, to buy our poppies
To remember once again
remember those who died for us
And those who were just maimed
We must also remember
Those, who lost their loved...

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© Jacque Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationing, absence, caregiving, conflict, courage,
Form: Ballad
Poverty
Rationing the needs
Never to have what they want
We must end this now...

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Categories: rationing, political, social,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Strange Priorities
"How many people are praying for love?" ("Don't Save It All For Christmas Day" by Avalon)


There are countless people in this world who have no...

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Categories: rationing, appreciation, humanity, irony, love,
Form: Free verse
The Death of the Innocents
The Death of the Innocents

By Elton Camp

About politics or government I take no position
In this, yet another, “horrors of war” composition

My memories of the Second...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationing, war, war, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Critically Acclaimed
The fault finding                      ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationing, allusion, introspection, irony, word
Form: Questionku
Premium Member Verses
No words today
My mind's gone away;
Come back another day

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Distress and dismay
Yes come what may;
Not much to say

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Feel the feeling
Flu unravels daze;
Word rationing maze

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Blank face
Blank mind;
Nothing...

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Categories: rationing, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drowning In Debt
He goes through each day 
obsessing over how to 
increase his earnings. 
Times are hard. 
He's drowning in debt; 
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug...

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Categories: rationing, life, money, perspective, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things