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Best Recyclable Poems

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The lunchroom fart
of turbo pasta
scatters garlic teargas
laced with meaty mystery
without mercy to
flatten cubicles.

Chain-reactions
of Tupperware battles
erupt to devastate
once discerning pallets
until hobbled by stabs
of shrapnel to the...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recyclable, satire
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: recyclable, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Bird On a Wire
Black Bird
Sitting on a wire
Why is your back turned towards me?
Do you wish to hide the intelligence of your eyes,
or do you wish to create...

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Categories: recyclable, angst, bird, child, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cremation
I stay close to home these days,
my roaming needs seeming to
expire with age, finding more
of what I need in the Silence
of packing; of course, this...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recyclable, death, humorous, introspection, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Monomaniacal Mist
Monomaniacal Mist

I am the finite of the infinite for the shadows bleed my presence
My habitual hunger is imminent and toxicant time is of the essence
Like...

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Categories: recyclable, death, destiny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



How To Be a Man
Take out the trash on Tuesday and remember the white bags are recyclable; 
Don’t mix the trash with the pig food, we’re saving the world;...

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Categories: recyclable, dedication, environment, farm, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Open My Eyes To See
I feel like 
I am all alone in this world 
with eyes
watching my every move

you might think that 
I was paranoid 
but every time I...

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Categories: recyclable, crazy, fun, funny, irony,
Form: Free verse
Green
Green is nature and growth
Green is moving forward 
Green is conservation
Green is when you think wild
Green is recyclable
Green is love dipped in red
Green is a...

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Categories: recyclable, color, creation, life, light,
Form: Pleiades
Earth Hour
Where we live is universal
It is men’s  abode, they fight for it
Only to become lethal
Man now without mercy is cruel
We love the EARTH and...

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Categories: recyclable, nature, earth, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Bird On a Wire Edited Version
Black Bird on a Wire

Black Bird
sitting on a wire
back turned towards me
Do you wish to hide the intelligence of your eyes
I see here at this...

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Categories: recyclable, abuse, angst, anxiety, bird,
Form: Free verse
Acting My Age
They said I should act my age 
the committee of higher ups and wanna be’s
all  perfect citizens  in good  standing of the...

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Categories: recyclable, lifelife, planet,
Form: Free verse
Miracle
I work for things deemed sensible
and avoid the junk dispensable
while seeking what's appreciable
to learn just what's achievable

while backwards reprehensible
where everything's disposable
and all that's left that's...

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Categories: recyclable, analogy, paradise, pollution,
Form: Monorhyme
Based
Life playing hide and seek with us...
Yes and no, alas long -
Not a riddle, not for answers,
Life the spindle.

Can fortunately, maybe with grief,
Life make sense...

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Categories: recyclable, sad love,
Form: Lyric
There's Nothing New
There's nothing new for children.
The adults have done it all.
And now they've left for planet Mars
when all you do is crawl.

They raised you with their...

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Categories: recyclable, adventure, bereavement, change, childhood,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Recycling Thoughts
My majority years have bolted
and this Mothers Day
Has left me to suppress thoughts,
from our past,
left curbside as rubbish;
That God never intended
to be recyclable;...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recyclable, mother, nostalgia
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs