Best Reconstruction Poems
ReconstructionLincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists,
their clenched jaws and fists.
Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks and mirages.
Nobody is qualified because everybody is responsible.
So many whites have graduated from the struggle,
showcasing their diploma from the mill.
Lincoln never imagined
modern virtual...
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Categories:
reconstruction, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form:
Political Verse
Destruction and ReconstructionAm I forced to watch you leave again?
My hand is left holding empty air
hadn’t I just held you as we walked?
And now, there is need for repair.
For there is a stitch in my heartbeat,
it snags on something in my chest
another broken piece of myself
left trapped...
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Categories:
reconstruction, angst, lost love
Form:
Rhyme
Destruction - ReconstructionI would like to share the destruction of my life
How I sold all my dreams to a world of pain and strife
I hope some youngster reads it and can clearly see
That to walk down that path is no place to be
I believe it all started...
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Categories:
reconstruction, lifeme, age, age, life,
Form:
Couplet
ReconstructionIf I am honest, the faults I see in others are a true reflection of me...
Oh Lord, help me to recognize my own hypocrisy.
Sometimes it's easy to point at others and see all the bad that is...
But we must be loving and forgiving because we're...
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Categories:
reconstruction, growth, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Rethinking ReconstructionBreaking down the barriers
That propped us up this whole time
Decomposing our identity down to the studs
As contemplating our next mountain to climb
Shattering our version of self
Loosening what was tightly wound
Refreshing to start seeing the whole picture
Discovering what we thought could never be found
Rightly reshuffling the...
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Categories:
reconstruction, encouraging, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Claiming My Period of Reconstructionthis period of my life is my period of reconstruction
i seek God for advice instead of those of this world of overt opinions
yes there are intelligent ones to whom i am lead to seek advice from
however when i need the most essential tools to rebuild...
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Categories:
reconstruction, god, growing up, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
ReconstructionSticks and stones may break my bones
Fires and screams and fading tones
Children are running from the fires of hell
A little old story Im dying to tell
A rotten of a smell
I t sure aint peace I’m trying to sell
Lies and fears and frightening cheers
Hanging from her...
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Categories:
reconstruction, america, appreciation,
Form:
Shape
Attempted Reconstruction of Basic Bland Bluei started a joke that i would like for you to finish
maybe then i could see that smile of yours again
it used to always make my problems fade away....even if for a little while
life's merciless stratagem has chewed you up and spit you out
the unorthodox...
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Categories:
reconstruction, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Reconstructionreconstruction
recalling much less than half i wrote
though long ago and miles remote
i remember when
an old black man
walks out from his shack
to fetch his kids' dead kitty cat
then walks back
as I pass by
and glancing up see...
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Categories:
reconstruction, angst, history, memory, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Ashen AqualungDaddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffocation.
a midnight jazz wail
lacerates
the void of your absence.
notes gnaw through bone marrow
ravenous maggots
in the corpse
of our love.
Chords violently crash
splintering my fractured vertebrae
a...
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Categories:
reconstruction, abuse, father son, mental
Form:
Free verse