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Best Repressing Poems

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I Ran From You
I ran from you to protect my heart
Or at least I thought I'd try
But little did I know back then
Just exactly why

Why run from what...

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Categories: repressing, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Living a Lie
Here I was pretending 
Not to see the truth that laid before me.
Forever suppressing my correct thoughts 
That were safely locked up in my unconscious.
But,...

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Categories: repressing, faith, how i feel,
Form: Epic
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking


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Categories: repressing, abuse, business, poverty, prison,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right...

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Categories: repressing, adventure, earth, life, light,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dee and Me
Dee and Me

The years have so quickly gotten by.
They have stepped in-between you and I

The years have slipped quietly away.
You, it seems, have drifted further...

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Categories: repressing, wife,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member God As Brown As An Egg
If God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.

Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?

What is the difference between a Paradise Tree...

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Categories: repressing, earth, god, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Are We Learning
What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals 
and...

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Categories: repressing, environment, family, health, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
Suicide
Friends make memories 
Love ones draw smiles on hearts
The beautiful days created are hard to wipe 
Great and happy moments stay longer than birthmarks

But what...

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Categories: repressing, depression, goodbye, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Dunkin Donuts
I'm at Dunkin Donuts dunking a donut,
for the experience.
Letting my memories pass through me.
Not repressing any of them.

I'm pretending to be a scientist
of the mind.
It's...

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Categories: repressing, confusion, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Are There Caribou In Malibou
ARE THERE CARIBOU IN MALIBU?

The frail I fail to reach
The elderly with so much to teach
Those older whose shoulder brushes mine
And yet each and every...

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Categories: repressing, angst, , cute,
Form: Hybronnet
Cold Dimensions
My heart grieves for past warmth, rocking guilt back and forth
Like a cradled infant, deceased, and torn
I wailed inside and expressed what the babies could...

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Categories: repressing, absence, courage, death, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refined White Values
While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now

How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of...

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Categories: repressing, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Floatsam and Jetsam
Day dawns on me breathlessly with drudgery,
Gayless is my countenance to elude the cartload of tasks.
Yeah is only the option that makes me trot with...

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© Ravi Babu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repressing, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contract Against Greatness
In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold...

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Categories: repressing, culture, health, integrity, mental
Form: Political Verse
Darkness Within
The crisp-cut, full moon hung high in the sky,
Staring down upon him like a demon eye.
Through the foliage a column of moonbeam fell,
Pinning him in...

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Categories: repressing, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs