Best Redress Poems
Body ails yet spirit soars
...Freezing in the midst of hostile ice monsoon
triggering aching woes beneath blood and bones,
I search for a quilt woven in sanguine rune
silken feathers of clementine and gold tones-
body ails, y......
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Categories:
redress, deep, hope, rain,
Form:
Ottava rima
On Second Thoughts By David Kavanagh
...By David Kavanagh
On second thoughts
When instinct becomes
an educated guess
And improvisation
demands quick redress
Like thinking on one’s feet
if too drunk to stand
Be found all at se......
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Categories:
redress, allegory,
Form:
Lyric
The Paper Clip
...The Paper Clip
They were such a lovely couple
From a very very rich family
I was invited to
The birthday party
She was all of three
Adorable and soon ever more sweet
Once the candles were ......
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Categories:
redress, appreciation, beauty, birthday, children,
Form:
Free verse
Remnants
...Sad Heart, now thou art wither’d from the Sun,
What man, or god, will near thee run?
Wrought in twist like branches in Tempests' gasp,
What Comfort, or Gauze, shall be near to grasp?
True ones begott......
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Categories:
redress, allegory, angst, confusion, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Limbo
...Six steeple towers, cold as steel, drab daggers in the sky!
Their hallowed halls no longer call when breezes wander by –
for, filled with dread to wake the dead, they've ceased to sough or sigh.
......
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Categories:
redress, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Pipe Dreams
...Pipe Dreams
Though I have a woman’s heart; it pounds with
dragon’s fire. Curled about the core of self,
I have lain in wait for Asia with claw, and horn.
Linked-locks and keys have spined be......
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Categories:
redress, analogy, symbolism, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Not Today, Not Anymore -
...For 15 years I have tolerated,
calculated, anticipated, sublimated workplace degradations, derisions,
subversions towards my character,
not today, no more,
yes, my pride has become livid, swollen......
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Categories:
redress, business, work, me, work,
Form:
Epic
Funeral
...She sleeps forever
I sleep funeral day
she shall be buried in earth
I , buried in wine
one day flowers I will lay
at her graveside
Never the less
consumption will not redress
the na......
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Categories:
redress, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
L-O-V-E
...love is something that you should respect
for of all emotions it's worst harm is regret
it gives freely with no thought to object
from one to another hopeful prospect
something sacred that one should......
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Categories:
redress, dedication, love,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Make America Great
...When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew it was treason.
Because of their beli......
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Categories:
redress, discrimination, history, patriotic, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
Fugitive From Gossip
...terza rima
Years of experience, a discovery -
I can speak without making use of my jaws.
Prudence and patience are rudimentary.
Some folks get their kicks using scuttlebutt claws.
Their tong......
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Categories:
redress, satire, silence, society, prejudice,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Palace of Aloneness
...A Palace of Aloneness.
This palace of aloneness is not my home.
It's bricks know only the time of run-off bygones.
Transition past it's thousand entrances
Impaired with creeping ivy
Into it......
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Categories:
redress, endurance, feelings, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Redress
...from a winged elm tree
a wren's knife cuts through glum dawn ~
joyful day afoot
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Categories:
redress, bird, dark, hope, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Just Relax
...When the day is done
And you are at ease
Just recharge your mind
Do as you please
Just relax
Your heart is pounding
From a fast paced track
Slow the pace down
Just relax
From the helter s......
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Categories:
redress, dedication, endurance, health, how
Form:
Free verse
'you Are No Longer a Friend'
...Wow! I am blown away!
My roof is truly gone!
To think your “friendship” was so fragile
If what you say is true.
Disappointment I can understand
(And in this case money was involved)
But if I ......
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Categories:
redress, friendship, life,
Form:
Free verse