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Best Regressive Poems

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Premium Member Regressive Progress
In Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:

Change doesn't happen
without planning

This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
and sometimes blessed
by unexpected weather transitions,
despite feeling like vulnerable chameleons
on a...

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Categories: regressive, fear, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse



Regressive Humanity
We all want to live a descent life
Wealth is a necessary evil
Wealth has got company
Vices follow the trail...and savage qualities
Humanity takes the regressive way


02.08.2016...

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Categories: regressive, evil, humanity, introspection,
Form: Grook
Premium Member A Regressive Definition of Terrorism
They're truly dumbfounded as to why hordes of parents are pissed.
That their children are being labelled inherently racist. 
or perpetually oppressed...
When all children want to...

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Categories: regressive, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whisky Moment
~the Fear of Never~ A DRINK TO REMEMBER!


   And the fire catches every time, my heart needs a sip
I bear no shame pouring,...

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Categories: regressive, abuse, addiction, celebration, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow Play
Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical...

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Categories: regressive, courage,
Form: Free verse



Feelings My Feelings
26th &27th January 2012
By Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)

Alone I sat on the wet sands,
Of the Sernabatim beach lands.
The sun reflected blue sky,
On the greenish grey waters...

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Categories: regressive, inspirational, nature, passion, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Usa Is Not Perfect
The USA is not perfect
  never has been
    never will be 

Unlike Russia, which has
  ‘no alcohol problem’ 
 ...

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Categories: regressive, america, history, international, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dawn
The Sun rises...

I know the supposed science 
of light,
bips and wavy lines of
pulsed propagation

like a heart

like emotions~ 

how human feelings start
and stop, the forward/backward of...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: regressive, creation, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Laugh
One of Life’s indisputable facts:
Government reserves the right to tax;
And tho’ they waste far more than they should,
It’s supposedly done “for the common good.”

Economists use...

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Categories: regressive, abuse, addiction, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
A Visit From a Social Worker
His hand reached out to mine, open, 
Holding it, I smiled, our eyes danced with understanding, 
Form and blush outlined his expectations, 
But I could...

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Categories: regressive, bible, care, career, christian,
Form: Free verse
My English Tutor
At school I excelled at maths, 
And English I found very hard;
Essays and interpretations floored me, 
Although at poetry I was a bard. 

But I...

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Categories: regressive, math, poetess, poetry, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Hot Stuff
How come I never looked like Hot Stuff in a sundress?
My sundresses by comparison look anemic and shapeless
My figure is not what it used to...

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: regressive, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Regressives
Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
        ...

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Categories: regressive, education, political, poverty, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trinity Quotes
Equality;  There is really no such thing as equality. How can there be if we are all different. There is, however, such a thing...

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Categories: regressive, adventure, angel, april, beautiful,
Form: Epitaph
The 734 That Died At Mecca
It is disgusting that 734 people died at Mecca,
Last Thursday, when so many lives were lost,
Needlessly, for want of crowd control officials,
To restrain the 1.4...

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Categories: regressive, anger, death, god, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs