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Best Red Tape Poems

Below are the all-time best Red Tape poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of red tape poems written by PoetrySoup members


My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: red tape, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Blind Alley Ways
Red tape maps certain ugly areas not yet examined properly 
as the bad paths are clearly marked as worthless dust blown away 
over a passage...

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Categories: red tape, faith, forgiveness, god, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member - Small Steps Walks Carefully X 2 -
NEW

    Hush my little child 
    No more tears 
    Your mother and father 
 ...

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Categories: red tape, good night, life, lonely,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Cinquain Fourteen
Lost
under pile
of red tape
hoping I will be
found...

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Categories: red tape, symbolism,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Surrender and Gratitude
today's day was molded pure
to a sweet surrender I'm sure

to stop the fight of life's flight
now to God I hold on tight

to choose the right...

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Categories: red tape, recovery from...sweet, life, red,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Patriotic Plan - Find the Last Man
It beggars belief at the time of the Bovine troubles
Cartoon capers mirror in abundance like little Barney Rubble's

An epidemic so troubling that we called Mad...

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Categories: red tape, political
Form: Couplet
Oh Folderal and Fiddle-De-Dee
forgiveness,  may, me, spoken word, word play, writing, game

OH FOLDERAL AND FIDDLE-DE-DEEDS! © 

Polite use in ‘words’ does astonish----
Creating a good reference when stated…..
But...

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Categories: red tape, forgiveness, fun, may, me,
Form: Verse
Last Train To Nowhere
I could hear the noise coming from his head
I chose the lesser of two evils quickly instead
I tried to move away and escape all the...

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Categories: red tape, crazy, dark, deep, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken World
The world became broken
The moment words were spoken

An eradicating epiphany
Or perhaps a silent symphony

Life is simply a caricature of death
We're dead with our very first...

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Categories: red tape, anger, betrayal, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
Brexit
The lash of European Union won’t tell us,
 how many thousands migrants
 we must take to our home
 or where to build
 for them temples...

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Categories: red tape, power,
Form: Verse
Causualties of War
None of us live forever were the words I'd often hear.
Words softly spoken from a man I held so dear.

He taught me to be brave...

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Categories: red tape, angel, death, health, military,
Form: Rhyme
Tortured
They sat him down
In a chair
In a large office
With a gorgeous window
With a fabulous view
And they sent in
One
Only one
That sole representative
Took from their briefcase
A roll...

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Categories: red tape, scary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
What Have You Done To Me
Oh what have you done to me,
A city built in the name of Christ.

When an earthquake struck,
Destroying all my pretty clothing
And shaking  the flesh...

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Categories: red tape, abuse, betrayal, bullying, business,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Outlook Defined
With trepidation, a card from the Seer's deck, she drew
In hopes she get some insight on what she should do
Decipher why she attracts men that...

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Categories: red tape, hope, life, work, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Mgc
Straight rows of soft chairs, larval eyes stare blank
Absorbed by glowing colors on the wall
Their jaws slack, fetid whiff, unwashed and dank
Arrested minds the blue...

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Categories: red tape, america, political, power,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs